January 2025

Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online 2025-01-06 at 03:35 By Brandon Vigliarolo PLUS: DoJ bans data sale to enemy nations; Do Kwon extradited to US; Tenable CEO passes away; and more Infosec in Brief  Welcome to 2025: hopefully you enjoyed a pleasant holiday season and returned to the security operations center without […]

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Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand ‘surges 1150%’ 2025-01-06 at 01:18 By Jessica Lyons State masks up finally – its IP addresses, that is Florida witnessed a massive rise in VPN demand on New Year’s Day after Pornhub began prohibiting people from accessing its site from within the Sunshine State, it is claimed.… This

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How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software 2025-01-06 at 00:21 By Liam Proven Even Microsoft’s lead architect misunderstood the failure Opinion  The resurfacing of a 1995 Usenet post earlier this month prompted The Reg FOSS desk to re-examine a pivotal operating system flop … and its long-term consequences.… This article is an

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The real reason that OS/2 flopped went on to shape modern software 2025-01-05 at 15:33 By Liam Proven Even Microsoft’s lead architect misunderstood the failure Opinion  The resurfacing of a 1995 Usenet post earlier this month prompted The Reg FOSS desk to re-examine a pivotal operating system flop … and its long-term consequences.… This article

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Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe’s old-school migrators 2025-01-05 at 13:27 By Lindsay Clark New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA Software developed to investigate more detailed differences between ancient DNA data has proved its worth this week after a paper describing human population movements in

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US sanctions Beijing-based cyber group for its alleged role in hacking incidents 2025-01-05 at 05:03 By Associated Press The U.S. Treasury on Friday sanctioned a Beijing-based cybersecurity company for its alleged role in multiple hacking incidents targeting critical U.S. infrastructure. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York

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How datacenters use water and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible 2025-01-04 at 20:35 By Tobias Mann If they’re not consuming H2O directly, the power plant almost certainly is Feature  The explosive growth of datacenters that followed ChatGPT’s debut in 2022 has shone a spotlight on the environmental impact of these power-hungry facilities.… This

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Gmail, Outlook and Apple users urged to watch out for this new email scam: Cybersecurity experts sound alarm 2025-01-04 at 17:48 By Brooke Kato Security company McAfee is warning of this new sophisticated scam. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source React to

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Researchers Uncover Nuclei Vulnerability Enabling Signature Bypass and Code Execution 2025-01-04 at 17:33 By A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in ProjectDiscovery’s Nuclei, a widely-used open-source vulnerability scanner that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to bypass signature checks and potentially execute malicious code. Tracked as CVE-2024-43405, it carries a CVSS score of 7.4

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Encryption backdoor debate ‘done and dusted,’ former White House tech advisor says 2025-01-04 at 16:34 By Jessica Lyons When the FBI urges E2EE, you know it’s serious business interview  In the wake of the Salt Typhoon hacks, which lawmakers and privacy advocates alike have called the worst telecoms breach in America’s history, the US government

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Shackleton’s Endurance sets sail for polar peril in Lego 2025-01-04 at 11:34 By David Spooner Because we’re all still kids – just richer The debate as to whether Lego is a toy or not largely depends on your willingness to accept revisiting childhood excitement as an adult, especially when it’s now far more likely to

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PLAYFULGHOST Delivered via Phishing and SEO Poisoning in Trojanized VPN Apps 2025-01-04 at 11:18 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called PLAYFULGHOST that comes with a wide range of information-gathering features like keylogging, screen capture, audio capture, remote shell, and file transfer/execution. The backdoor, according to Google’s Managed Defense team, shares functional overlaps

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Atos denies Space Bears’ ransomware claims – with a ‘but’ 2025-01-04 at 10:33 By Jessica Lyons Points finger at third-party infrastructure being breached French tech giant Atos today denied that Space Bears criminals breached its systems – but noted that third-party infrastructure was compromised by the ransomware crew, and that files accessed by the crooks

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U.S. Treasury Sanctions Beijing Cybersecurity Firm for State-Backed Hacking Campaigns 2025-01-04 at 09:33 By The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday issued sanctions against a Beijing-based cybersecurity company known as Integrity Technology Group, Incorporated for orchestrating several cyber attacks against U.S. victims. These attacks have been publicly attributed to a

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Honey co-founder’s Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL’d uBlock Origin files 2025-01-04 at 04:19 By Thomas Claburn And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution Closed-source browser extension Pie Adblock was this week accused of copying code and text from rival uBlock Origin in violation of the latter’s software license – the GNU

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Amazon worker – struck and shot in New Orleans terror attack – initially denied time off 2025-01-04 at 03:34 By Iain Thomson Web giant now pledges full support A warehouse worker at an Amazon facility in Mobile, Alabama, who was struck by a truck and shot in the New Orleans New Year’s Day deadly terror

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PayPal accused of racial bias against Asian Americans in funding lawsuit: ‘Wrong kind of minority’ 2025-01-03 at 23:34 By Reuters The lawsuit is part of a growing push among some conservatives to curtail diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in corporate America. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New

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TikTok knew livestreams exploited kids — but turned a blind eye and ‘profited significantly’: Utah suit 2025-01-03 at 23:19 By Reuters Many children were then allegedly “groomed” by adults to perform sexual acts, sometimes involving nudity, in exchange for virtual gifts. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New

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