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18 months after indictment, Iranian phishers are still targeting universities

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Aurich Lawson / Getty In March 2018, nine Iranians were criminally charged for their involvement with the Mabna Institute, a company federal prosecutors said was created in 2013 for the express purpose of using coordinated cyber intrusions to steal terabytes of academic data from universities, academic journal publishers, tech companies, and government organizations. Almost 18 […]

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Debian 10: Playing catch-up with the rest of the Linux world (that’s a good thing)

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Enlarge / Buster is a good boy, but is he a good Linux distro release? Pixar / Disney The Debian project, the upstream mother of countless Linux distributions, has released Debian 10, also known as “Buster.” And yes, that’s a reference to the character from Toy Story. All Debian releases are named after Toy Story

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Weakness in Intel chips lets researchers steal encrypted SSH keystrokes

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In late 2011, Intel introduced a performance enhancement to its line of server processors that allowed network cards and other peripherals to connect directly to a CPU’s last-level cache, rather than following the standard (and significantly longer) path through the server’s main memory. By avoiding system memory, Intel’s DDIO—short for Data-Direct I/O—increased input/output bandwidth and

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Some Chromebooks mistakenly declared themselves end-of-life last week

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Enlarge / If your new Chromebook told you it’s past EOL, don’t panic—as long as you were running Canary or Dev, that is. (If you were running Stable or Beta, you may continue panicking.) A lot of Chromebook and Chromebox users don’t realize this, but all ChromeOS devices have an expiration date. Google’s original policy

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Back to school: With latest attack, ransomware cancels classes in Flagstaff

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As students returned to school across the country over the past two weeks, school districts are facing an unprecedented wave of ransomware attacks. In the past month, dozens of districts nationwide have been affected by ransomware attacks, in some cases taking entire school systems’ networks down in the process. All classes were cancelled September 5

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A project aims to help ISPs mind their routing security manners

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When my kids were younger, we used to tell them we were going to send them to “manners camp” if they didn’t behave properly at the dinner table. An Internet Society-supported initiative, the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), has tried to coax Internet service providers into minding their manners as well—particularly when it

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Exploit for wormable BlueKeep Windows bug released into the wild

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Aurich Lawson For months, security practitioners have worried about the public release of attack code exploiting BlueKeep, the critical vulnerability in older versions of Microsoft Windows that’s “wormable,” meaning it can spread from computer to computer the way the WannaCry worm did two years ago. On Friday, that dreaded day arrived when the Metasploit framework—an

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Apple takes flak for disputing iOS security bombshell dropped by Google

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Apple is taking flak for disputing some minor details of last week’s bombshell report that, for at least two years, customers’ iOS devices were vulnerable to a sting of zeroday exploits, at least some of which were actively exploited to install malware that stole location data, passwords, encryption keys, and a wealth of other highly

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Verizon’s 5G network isn’t good enough to cover an entire NFL stadium

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Enlarge / A Verizon logo at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2019 on February 26, 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. Verizon yesterday announced that its 5G service is available in 13 NFL stadiums but said the network is only able to cover “parts” of the seating areas. Verizon 5G signals will also be sparse or non-existent when

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Zero-day privilege escalation disclosed for Android

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Researchers have disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the Android operating system that gives a major boost to attackers who already have a toe-hold on an affected device. The privilege-escalation flaw is located in the V4L2 driver, which Android and other Linux-based OSes use to capture real-time video. The vulnerability results from a “lack of validating

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