Economy

October 14, 2021
106

Verizon’s Visible cell customers hacked, unauthorized purchases seen

Enlarge (credit: Steve Halama) Numerous Visible Wireless subscribers are reporting their accounts have been “hacked” this week. Visible runs on…
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October 14, 2021
107

“Hacker X”—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks himself

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) This is the story of the mastermind behind one of the largest “fake…
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October 7, 2021
95

US gov’t will slap contractors with civil lawsuits for hiding breaches

(credit: Stephen Melkisethian) In a groundbreaking initiative announced by the Department of Justice this week, federal contractors will be sued…
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October 6, 2021
106

Twitch source code, creator earnings exposed in 125GB leak

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Live video broadcasting service Twitch has been hit by a massive hack that…
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October 5, 2021
141

Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | d3sign) Syniverse, a company that routes hundreds of billions of text messages every year for…
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October 5, 2021
112

Facebook’s outage likely cost the company over $60 million

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In a major outage yesterday, Facebook, along with its sibling sites, WhatsApp and Instagram, became unreachable…
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October 4, 2021
133

Windows 11: The Ars Technica review

(credit: Microsoft) Microsoft wanted everyone to use Windows 10. Faced with slow adoption of Windows 8 and the stubborn popularity…
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October 4, 2021
74

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down. Here’s what we know

Enlarge / Today’s global Facebook and Facebook-owned-services outage appears to be the result of a flubbed BGP configuration change pushed…
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October 4, 2021
78

Researcher refuses Telegram’s bounty award, discloses auto-delete bug

Enlarge (credit: Joshua Sortino) Telegram patched another image self-destruction bug in its app earlier this year. This flaw was a…
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October 2, 2021
89

Hundreds of scam apps hit over 10 million Android devices

Enlarge / Never put a GriftHorse on your phone. (credit: John Lamparsky | Getty Images) Google has taken increasingly sophisticated…
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