by crissly | Sep 25, 2023 | Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / Security News
All over the world, walls are going up around the internet. For years, autocratic regimes have been in a race to heighten those walls, as their citizens develop taller and taller ladders. The more they filter and block, the more their citizens come up with clever... 
by crissly | Sep 16, 2023 | Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / National Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News
China-linked hackers are increasingly moving beyond espionage and into the disturbing world of power grid attacks. Threat researchers at security software firm Symantec this week released new evidence that the Chinese hacking group known as APT41 infiltrated the power... 
by crissly | Sep 7, 2023 | Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
Microsoft said in June that a China-backed hacking group had stolen a cryptographic key from the company’s systems. This key allowed the attackers to access cloud-based Outlook email systems for 25 organizations, including multiple US government agencies. At the... 
by crissly | Aug 27, 2023 | Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / National Security
Since war first broke out between Ukraine and Russia in 2014, Russian hackers have at times used some of the most sophisticated hacking techniques ever seen in the wild to destroy Ukrainian networks, disrupt the country’s satellite communications, and even... 
by crissly | Aug 12, 2023 | Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / Security News
One of your Mac’s built-in malware detection tools may not be working quite as well as you think. At the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas, longtime Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle presented findings today about vulnerabilities in Apple’s macOS... 
by crissly | Aug 9, 2023 | Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / Security News
Internet-of-things devices have been plagued by security issues and unfixed vulnerabilities for more than a decade, fueling botnets, facilitating government surveillance, and exposing institutional networks and individual users around the world. But many manufacturers... 