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 13, 2023 | Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News
The personal data for Argentina’s vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, was requested 226 times; President Alberto Fernández’s data was requested 76 times. Among those searched were politicians from different parties, human rights activists, and journalists.... 
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... 
by crissly | Jul 27, 2023 | Security, Security / National Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News
The US Supreme Court has previously ordered the government to obtain search warrants before seeking information that may “chronicle a person’s past movements through the record of his cell phone signals.” In the landmark Carpenter v. United States decision, the court... 