Economy

July 13, 2022
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Vulnerabilities allowing permanent infections affect 70 Lenovo laptop models

Enlarge (credit: Lenovo) For owners of more than 70 Lenovo laptop models, it’s time once again to patch the UEFI…
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July 12, 2022
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Ongoing phishing campaign can hack you even when you’re protected with MFA

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, Microsoft detailed an ongoing large-scale phishing campaign that can hijack user accounts when they’re…
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July 12, 2022
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New working speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling

Enlarge Some microprocessors from Intel and AMD are vulnerable to a newly discovered speculative execution attack that can covertly leak…
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July 12, 2022
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Russian ‘hacktivists’ are causing trouble far beyond Ukraine

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Sergey Balakhnichev) The attacks against Lithuania started on June 20. For the next 10 days,…
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July 8, 2022
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Microsoft makes major course reversal, allows Office to run untrusted macros

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has stunned core parts of the security community with a decision to quietly reverse course…
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July 8, 2022
117

New Starlink Maritime brings Internet to your yacht for $5,000 a month

Enlarge / Starlink Maritime puts dual terminals on large boats. (credit: Starlink) SpaceX yesterday announced a Starlink Maritime service that…
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July 7, 2022
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I sent my yoga studio a web form, and all I got was this lousy malware attack

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On the last day of May, one of my inboxes began receiving emails, purportedly from one…
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July 7, 2022
122

End-to-end encryption’s central role in modern self-defense

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A number of course-altering US Supreme Court decisions last month—including the reversal of a constitutional right…
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July 7, 2022
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Why Lockdown mode from Apple is one of the coolest security ideas ever

Enlarge (credit: Apple) Mercenary spyware is one of the hardest threats to combat. It targets an infinitesimally small percentage of…
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July 6, 2022
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The cryptopocalypse is nigh! NIST rolls out new encryption standards to prepare

Enlarge / Conceptual computer artwork of electronic circuitry with blue and red light passing through it, representing how data may…
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