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IoT botnet creator cops plea to hacking more than 800,000 devices

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Getty Images | Marilyn Nieves A 21-year-old Washington man has pleaded guilty to creating botnets that converted hundreds of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-facing devices into money-making denial-of-service fleets that could knock out entire Web hosting companies. Kenneth Currin Schuchman of Vancouver, Washington, admitted in federal court documents on Tuesday that he and […]

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“Everything as a service” is coming—but we’re not there quite yet

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Enlarge / Artist’s impression of the datacenter as a service. Aurich Lawson / Getty For the past decade, information technology and cloud computing vendors have increasingly pushed the virtualization and abstraction of every possible part of IT infrastructure further and further, turning what used to be things you bought and paid for into services that

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A glut of iOS 0-days pushes their price below cost of those for Android

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For the first time ever, the security exploit broker Zerodium is paying a higher price for zero-day attacks that target Android than it pays for comparable attacks targeting iOS. An updated price list published Tuesday shows Zerodium will now pay $2.5 million apiece for “full chain (Zero-Click) with persistence” Android zero-days compared with $2 million

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Google Play apps with 1.5 million downloads drained batteries and slowed devices

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Researchers have discovered two Google Play apps with more than 1.5 million downloads engaging in a new form of click fraud that drained batteries, slowed performance, and increased mobile data usage on infected phones. The apps—a notepad app called “Idea Note: OCR Text Scanner, GTD, Color Notes” and a fitness app with the title “Beauty

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Antonio Neri and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s cultural revolution

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Enlarge / Antonio Neri, president and chief executive officer of Hewitt Packard Enterprise (HPE), speaks during the HPE Discovery conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Neri is pivoting HPE toward delivering all its products as a service. Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s been just over two years since Antonio

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Rash of ransomware continues with 13 new victims—most of them schools

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As investigations into a massive, coordinated ransomware attack against local governments in Texas continues, 13 new victims of ransomware attacks have been publicly identified. Most of them are school districts, thought the victims also include an Indiana county, a hospice in California, and a newspaper in Watertown, New York. The ransomware involved in the Texas attacks,

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Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for $60 a month

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You can check out any time you’d like, but you can never… well, you know the song. Aurich Lawson A municipal broadband service in Fort Collins, Colorado went live for new customers today, less than two years after the city’s voters approved the network despite a cable industry-led campaign against it. “Finally, a broadband provider you

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Armed with iOS 0days, hackers indiscriminately infected iPhones for two years

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Hackers exploited more than a dozen iOS vulnerabilities—most of them unpatched zerodays—in a two-year campaign that stole photos, emails, log-in credentials, and more from iPhones and iPads, researchers from Google’s Project Zero said. The attacks were waged from a small collection of hacked websites that used the exploits to indiscriminately attack every iOS device that

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Snake oil or genius? Crown Sterling tells its side of Black Hat controversy

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Enlarge / Crown Sterling’s presentation at Black Hat triggered cryptography experts. Crown Sterling Robert Grant is a reluctant cryptographer. “The last thing I would’ve wanted to do is start another company,” Grant, the CEO and founder of Crown Sterling, told Ars. “It’s like my wife asking me if we can have another child… I have

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US hack attack hobbles Iran’s ability to target oil tankers, NYT says

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Enlarge / Commercial oil tanker AbQaiq in 2003. Hackers working for the US government wiped out a database and computer systems that Iran’s paramilitary arm used to plan attacks against oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The attack occurred on June 20, the same day that President Trump

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