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  1. Feds indict “The Bull” for allegedly selling insider stock info on the dark web

    Data allegedly sold individually or through weekly or monthly subscriptions.

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  2. Morgan Stanley discloses data breach that resulted from Accellion FTA hacks

    Financial services firm says data was stolen by exploiting flaws discovered in December.

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  3. Microsoft’s emergency patch fails to fix critical “PrintNightmare” vulnerability

    Game-over code-execution attacks are still possible even after fix is installed.

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  4. Why the password isn’t dead quite yet

    Everyone hates the old ways of authentication. But change comes with its own drawbacks.

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  5. Up to 1,500 businesses infected in one of the worst ransomware attacks ever

    Mass compromise is having cascading effects around the world.

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  6. The rumor is true: Rimac is taking over Bugatti with Porsche’s help

    Ars spoke to CEOs Oliver Blume and Mate Rimac about the hypercar deal.

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  7. Old school: I work in DOS for an entire day

    From the archives: Open source MS-DOS alternative lives—but using it nearly killed me.

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  8. Wimbledon: The tech behind the world’s top tennis tournament

    From the archives: There's a surprising amount of cool tech for a 140-year-old event.

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  9. Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users’ Facebook passwords

    Researchers uncovered 9 apps that used a sneaking method to pilfer credentials.

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  10. Thinking about selling your Echo Dot—or any IoT device? Read this first

    Deleting data from Echo Dots—and other IoT devices from Amazon and elsewhere—is hard.

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  11. Robinhood ordered to pay $70m penalty to US regulator

    It's the largest penalty the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has ever ordered.

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  12. Starlink’s “next-generation” user terminal will cost a lot less, Musk says

    Musk expects near-global coverage in August and up to 500,000 users in one year.

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  1. Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices [Updated]

    Western Digital removed code that would have prevented the wiping of petabytes of data.

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  2. Microsoft digitally signs malicious rootkit driver

    Company still hasn't revealed the cause of this serious security lapse.

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  3. SolarWinds hackers breach new victims, including a Microsoft support agent

    Discovery came as Microsoft was investigating new breaches by the same hacker group.

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  4. A well-meaning feature leaves millions of Dell PCs vulnerable

    Firmware security tool flaws affect as many as 30M desktops, laptops, and tablets.

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  5. NFC flaws let researchers hack an ATM by waving a phone

    Flaws in card-reader technology can wreak havoc with point-of-sale systems and more.

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  6. “I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted

    Storage-device maker advises customers to unplug My Book Lives from the Internet ASAP.

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  7. Hackers are using unknown user accounts to target Zyxel firewalls and VPNs

    Authentication bypass attacks allow hackers to change breach network security.

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  8. AV mogul John McAfee found dead by hanging in Spanish prison cell

    McAFee's larger-than-life and often illegal antics came to define his later years.

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  9. Altice is reducing cable-Internet upload speeds by up to 86% next month

    Altice cuts uploads from 35Mbps to 5Mbps to bring them "in line with other ISPs."

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  10. Ahoy, there’s malice in your repos—PyPI is the latest to be abused

    Open source repositories can be vectors for maliciousness, so look before you run.

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  11. A week after arrests, Cl0p ransomware group dumps new tranche of stolen data

    Leak shows that, like the rest of the ransomware scourge, Cl0p isn't going away.

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  12. Monero emerges as crypto of choice for cybercriminals

    Untraceable "privacy coin" is rising in popularity among ransomware gangs.

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  1. Connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks can mess with your iPhone

    The world's most secure consumer OS is bitten by a garden-variety programming bug.

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  2. Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cybercriminal crackdown

    Arrests of Cl0p hacker group members adds to pressure on other countries to follow suit.

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  3. Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them

    Most malware tries to steal stuff. Vigilante, by contrast, takes aim at piracy.

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  4. Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit

    Man watered dish to cool it down but overheating knocked it offline for 7 hours.

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  5. CD Projekt Red does an about-face, says ransomware crooks are leaking data

    Data taken in breach disclosed in February likely related to employees and contractors.

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  6. EA source code stolen by hacker claiming to sell it online

    More organizations feel the pain as the ransomware scourge grows more pernicious.

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  7. Mystery malware steals 26M passwords from millions of PCs. Are you affected?

    Massive trove can be used for ransomware, espionage, and more.

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  8. Hackers can mess with HTTPS connections by sending data to your email server

    Cross-protocol attacks could potentially steal login cookies or execute malicious code.

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  9. US seizes $2.3 million Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware attackers

    Funds seized after Justice Department IDs Bitcoin wallet and obtains its private key.

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  10. Hacker lexicon: What is a supply chain attack?

    From NotPetya to SolarWinds, it’s a problem that’s not going away any time soon.

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  11. This is not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack

    Code execution flaw in vCenter is exploited to install web shell on unpatched machines.

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  12. Ransomware will now get priority treatment at the Justice Department

    Directive comes as ransomware is exposing the fragility of critical supply chains.

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