Economy

January 13, 2023
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Meta sues “scraping-for-hire” service that sells user data to law enforcement

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and…
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January 13, 2023
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Third-party Twitter clients are broken, whether by policy or glitch

Enlarge / Many third-party Twitter clients, apps the social network has been seeking to diminish since 2012, are suddenly not…
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January 13, 2023
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Vulnerability with 9.8 severity in Control Web Panel is under active exploit

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Malicious hackers have begun exploiting a critical vulnerability in unpatched versions of the Control Web Panel,…
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January 12, 2023
106

Fortinet says hackers exploited critical vulnerability to infect VPN customers

(credit: Fortinet) An unknown threat actor abused a critical vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN to infect government and government-related organizations…
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January 12, 2023
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Indigenous tech group asks Apache Foundation to change its name

Enlarge / A 2015 photo by Zaheda Bhorat (shared by Rich Bowen) showing many of the original Apache Software Foundation’s…
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January 12, 2023
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FAA outage that grounded flights blamed on old tech and damaged database file

Enlarge / Travelers wait in a terminal at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, during an FAA outage that grounded…
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January 11, 2023
106

Hundreds of SugarCRM servers infected with critical in-the-wild exploit

Enlarge For the past two weeks, hackers have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in the SugarCRM (customer relationship management) system…
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January 11, 2023
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Microsoft 365 Basic gives you 100GB of OneDrive space (but no Office) for $2

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is adding a new low-end subscription tier to its Microsoft 365 service designed to cater to…
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January 11, 2023
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Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long

Enlarge / Stewart Coonrod holds up an official 2023 Chuck E. Cheese floppy disk in a TikTok video. It contains…
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January 11, 2023
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A widespread logic controller flaw raises the specter of Stuxnet

Enlarge In 2009, the computer worm Stuxnet crippled hundreds of centrifuges inside Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant by targeting the…
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