Economy

February 11, 2022
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Police in Spain dismantle a SIM-swapping ring that drained bank accounts

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Authorities in Spain said they broke up a SIM-swapping crime ring that used identity theft and…
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February 11, 2022
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Hundreds of e-commerce sites booby-trapped with payment card skimming malware

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) About 500 e-commerce websites were recently found to be compromised by hackers who installed a credit…
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February 10, 2022
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After lying low, SSH botnet mushrooms and is harder than ever to take down

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) Two years ago, researchers stumbled upon one of the Internet’s most intriguing botnets:…
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February 9, 2022
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Vodafone Portugal struggles to restore service following cyberattack

Enlarge Vodafone Portugal is slowly working to recover following a “deliberate and malicious cyberattack” that brought down services used by…
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February 9, 2022
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SpaceX loses up to 40 satellites to geomagnetic storm after Starlink launch

Enlarge / Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth’s atmosphere. These events can cause geomagnetic storms. (credit: Getty…
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February 8, 2022
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Firm planning 100,000 satellites claims it will “clean space” by capturing debris

Enlarge / Greg Wyler in February 2019 when he was at OneWeb. (credit: Getty Images | Washington Post) A company…
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February 7, 2022
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Health sites let ads track visitors without telling them

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) All too often, digital ads wind up improperly targeting the most vulnerable people…
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February 7, 2022
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Microsoft will block downloaded macros in Office versions going back to 2013

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) In the interest of combating ransomware and other malware, Microsoft is planning a major change in how…
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February 4, 2022
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How $323M in crypto was stolen from a blockchain bridge called Wormhole

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) This is a story about how a simple software bug allowed the fourth-biggest cryptocurrency theft ever.…
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February 2, 2022
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Mac malware spreading for ~14 months installs backdoor on infected systems

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Mac malware known as UpdateAgent has been spreading for more than a year, and it is…
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