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Former NSA cyberspy’s not-so-secret hobby: Hacking Christmas lights 2024-12-25 at 15:42 By Iain Thomson Rob Joyce explains how it’s done Video  In 2018, Rob Joyce, then Donald Trump’s White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, gave a surprise talk at the legendary hacking conference Shmoocon about his hobby.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original […]

Iran’s Charming Kitten Deploys BellaCPP: A New C++ Variant of BellaCiao Malware 2024-12-25 at 12:51 By The Iranian nation-state hacking group known as Charming Kitten has been observed deploying a C++ variant of a known malware called BellaCiao. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which dubbed the new version BellaCPP, said it discovered the artifact as part […]

The winner of last year’s Windows Ugly Sweater is … 2024-12-25 at 12:39 By Richard Speed Register readers have spoken The Register readership has spoken – a “winner” is set to be punished with the horrible Windows XP Christmas sweater. And Copilot? Headed to where the sun doesn’t shine, judging by the vast majority of […]

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to bolster battle against OpenAI: ‘Gonna need a bigger compute!’ 2024-12-24 at 21:18 By Ariel Zilber The latest funding round by xAI put the company’s value at more than $40 billion. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Apple seeks to defend Google’s billion-dollar payments in feds’ landmark search trial 2024-12-24 at 20:04 By Reuters “Google can no longer adequately represent Apple’s interests: Google must now defend against a broad effort to break up its business units,” Apple said. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View […]

Looking to try a VPN service? Check out our review of Norton VPN here 2024-12-24 at 19:06 By Nicholas Fearn All the info you need right here. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Technical issue briefly grounds American Airlines flights across US 2024-12-24 at 18:34 By Tobias Mann Unspecified “vendor technology” to blame for hour-long stop order A technical snafu briefly grounded American Airlines flights across the US on Christmas Eve.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

How Androxgh0st rose from Mozi’s ashes to become ‘most prevalent malware’ 2024-12-24 at 18:15 By Jessica Lyons Botnet’s operators ‘driven by similar interests as that of the Chinese state’ After the Mozi botnet mysteriously disappeared last year, a new and seemingly more powerful botnet, Androxgh0st, rose from its ashes and has quickly become a major […]

Do you know what the ‘i’ in iPhone stands for? You’re not alone — and here’s the answer 2024-12-24 at 17:08 By Brooke Kato There’s more to the name than meets the “i.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

The ultimate guide to the best VPNs of 2025 2024-12-24 at 16:04 By Nicholas Fearn Everything you need to know. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Microsoft Edge takes a victory lap with some high-looking usage stats for 2024 2024-12-24 at 16:04 By Richard Speed Lots of big numbers, but market share wasn’t one of them Microsoft has published a year in review for its Edge browser and talked up AI-powered chats while lightly skipping over the software’s stagnating market share.… […]

Researchers Uncover PyPI Packages Stealing Keystrokes and Hijacking Social Accounts 2024-12-24 at 15:52 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two malicious packages that were uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository and came fitted with capabilities to exfiltrate sensitive information from compromised hosts, according to new findings from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs. The packages, named zebo […]

The biggest mistake you can make when tracking calories — you may actually be eating less than you think 2024-12-24 at 15:01 By Tracy Swartz Most Americans have used a calorie-tracking app — or good, old-fashioned pen and paper — to log their dietary decisions and physical activity to see if they are burning more […]

What do ransomware and Jesus have in common? A birth month and an unwillingness to die 2024-12-24 at 13:47 By Connor Jones 35 years since AIDS first borked a PC and we’re still no closer to a solution Feature  Your Christmas holidays looked quite different in the ’80s to how they do today. While some […]

CISA Adds Acclaim USAHERDS Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation 2024-12-24 at 13:04 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched high-severity security flaw impacting Acclaim Systems USAHERDS to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question […]

North Korean Hackers Pull Off $308M Bitcoin Heist from Crypto Firm DMM Bitcoin 2024-12-24 at 13:04 By Japanese and U.S. authorities have formerly attributed the theft of cryptocurrency worth $308 million from cryptocurrency company DMM Bitcoin in May 2024 to North Korean cyber actors. “The theft is affiliated with TraderTraitor threat activity, which is also […]

One third of adults can’t delete device data 2024-12-24 at 11:33 By Richard Speed Easier to let those old phones gather dust in a draw, survey finds The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned that many adults don’t know how to wipe their old devices, and a worrying number of young people just don’t […]