2025

Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect 2025-02-26 at 14:30 By Connor Jones Experts warned the UK’s recent ‘victory’ over Apple would kickstart something of a domino effect Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker says her company will withdraw from countries that force messaging providers to allow law enforcement officials to access encrypted user […]

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SpaceX says bad vibes most likely cause of Starship 7 flop 2025-02-26 at 13:45 By Richard Speed All fixed for Flight Test Eight, OK? As SpaceX prepares for a Friday launch of its next Starship flight test, Elon Musk’s biz has explained that the failure of the previous test was due to a harmonic response.…

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SOC 3.0 – The Evolution of the SOC and How AI is Empowering Human Talent 2025-02-26 at 13:28 By Organizations today face relentless cyber attacks, with high-profile breaches hitting the headlines almost daily. Reflecting on a long journey in the security field, it’s clear this isn’t just a human problem—it’s a math problem. There are

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New Linux Malware ‘Auto-Color’ Grants Hackers Full Remote Access to Compromised Systems 2025-02-26 at 13:04 By Universities and government organizations in North America and Asia have been targeted by a previously undocumented Linux malware called Auto-Color between November and December 2024, according to new findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. “Once installed, Auto-color allows

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Murena kicks Google out of the Pixel Tablet 2025-02-26 at 13:01 By Liam Proven Privacy-centric Android makes more sense on this form factor than a phone We had a play with Murena’s first tablet, a Google Pixel running /e/OS, its in-house de-Googled Android 13 with additional privacy features.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Three Password Cracking Techniques and How to Defend Against Them 2025-02-26 at 12:56 By Passwords are rarely appreciated until a security breach occurs; suffice to say, the importance of a strong password becomes clear only when faced with the consequences of a weak one. However, most end users are unaware of just how vulnerable their

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CERT-UA Warns of UAC-0173 Attacks Deploying DCRat to Compromise Ukrainian Notaries 2025-02-26 at 12:53 By The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) on Tuesday warned of renewed activity from an organized criminal group it tracks as UAC-0173 that involves infecting computers with a remote access trojan named DCRat (aka DarkCrystal RAT). The Ukrainian cybersecurity

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Malicious PyPI Package “automslc” Enables 104K+ Unauthorized Deezer Music Downloads 2025-02-26 at 12:40 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Python library on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that facilitates unauthorized music downloads from music streaming service Deezer. The package in question is automslc, which has been downloaded over 104,000 times to date. First

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HP CEO pay for 2024 = 261,658 toner cartridges 2025-02-26 at 12:15 By Paul Kunert That’s down on last year in terms of financial compensation and – given ink price hike – the number of supplies he is valued at HP CEO Enrique Lores saw his total compensation shrink by a little more than $98,000

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Steve Wozniak: ‘Founding Apple would be much harder today than in the 1970s’ 2025-02-26 at 11:30 By Richard Speed Plus: Beware of a hotspot called ‘spanky’ Computing pioneer Steve Wozniak didn’t set out to revolutionize the computer industry. He just wanted the respect of his fellow engineers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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