Manufacturing supply chains are increasingly susceptible to disruptions and are targets for bad actors seeking to steal proprietary information and/or sabotage products. To help industry, NIST published NIST Internal Report…
Hackers can infect >100 Lenovo models with unremovable malware. Are you patched?
Enlarge / This is the 14-inch variant of the Yoga Slim 9i, with leather finish. Lenovo Lenovo has released security updates for more than 100 laptop models to fix critical…
Your iOS app may still be covertly tracking you, despite what Apple says
Enlarge Getty Images Last year, Apple enacted App Tracking Transparency, a mandatory policy that forbids app makers from tracking user activity across other apps without first receiving those users’ explicit…
US uncovers “Swiss Army knife” for hacking industrial control systems
Enlarge cravetiger | Getty Images Malware designed to target industrial control systems like power grids, factories, water utilities, and oil refineries represents a rare species of digital badness. So when…
Amazon adds 5% “fuel and inflation” surcharge to seller fees for Prime shipping
Enlarge Getty Images | NurPhoto Amazon said it will impose a 5 percent “fuel and inflation surcharge” on third-party sellers who ship through Amazon starting on April 28. The new fee…
Preparing for Armageddon: How Ukraine battles Russian hackers
Enlarge gwengoat | Getty Images For years, a small and disparate Ukrainian team including IT experts, intelligence officers, and a criminal prosecutor has kept a wary eye on a group…
U.S. Department of Commerce Appoints 27 Members to National AI Advisory Committee
Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the appointment of 27 experts to the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC), which will advise the President and the…
Microsoft’s tactics to win cloud battle lead to new antitrust scrutiny
Enlarge Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Microsoft has escaped the recent backlash against the power and wealth of the biggest US tech companies. Despite a stock market value that has…
Russia’s Sandworm hackers attempted a third blackout in Ukraine
Enlarge Getty Images | Sundry Photography More than half a decade has passed since the notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical transmission station north of Kyiv a…
Trend says hackers have weaponized SpringShell to install Mirai malware
Enlarge Getty Images Researchers on Friday said that hackers are exploiting the recently discovered SpringShell vulnerability to successfully infect vulnerable Internet of Things devices with Mirai, an open source piece…