With elections weeks away, someone “sophisticated” hacked Australia’s politicians
Hacks come on heels of attack on Parliament House network earlier in February.
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Inside the DNSpionage hacks that hijack domains at an unprecedented scale
KrebsOnSecurity details how attackers took control of sensitive domains around the world.
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Electric truck startup announces $700 million funding round led by Amazon
The company says its truck and SUV will be ready for delivery by late 2020.
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Behold, the Facebook phishing scam that could dupe even vigilant users
HTML block almost perfectly reproduces Facebook single sign-on Window.
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Researchers, scared by their own work, hold back “deepfakes for text” AI
OpenAI's GPT-2 algorithm shows machine learning could ruin online content for everyone.
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Shell buys Sonnen, Tesla’s competitor in the home battery business
The acquisition follows Shell's purchase of EV charging company Greenlots.
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Startup will store energy by forcing compressed air in a defunct zinc mine
The adiabatic process will be built with AUD $9 million in government-funded grants.
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Ajit Pai orders phone companies to adopt new anti-robocall tech in 2019
Pai threatens "regulatory" action if carriers don't use Caller ID authentication.
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Citing lack of demand, Airbus cancels A380 superjumbo aircraft
"What we’re seeing here is the end of the large, four-engine aircraft."
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Amazon caught selling counterfeits of publisher’s computer books—again
Bill Pollock says Amazon is printing them—and even the product photo is fake.
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MalwareTech loses bid to suppress damning statements made after days of partying
Researcher said statements he made after taking intoxicating substances should be thrown out.
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Hackers keep trying to get malicious Windows file onto MacOS
Clever trick may be ham-fisted attempt bypass Gatekeeper protections built into macOS.
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Microsoft patches 0-day vulnerabilities in IE and Exchange
IE info bug was under active exploit; exploit code for Exchange flaw was circulating.
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Since Trump tariffs, solar jobs have atrophied
Solar jobs slip for the second year in a row, says The Solar Foundation annual report.
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“Catastrophic” hack on email provider destroys almost two decades of data
VFEmail says data for virtually all US users is gone for good.
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SpaceX seeks FCC OK for 1 million satellite broadband Earth stations
SpaceX Starlink team wants quick FCC approval to support "ambitious timetable."
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Texas lawmaker wants to ban mobile throttling in disaster areas
Democrat proposes ban apparently in response to Verizon throttling firefighters.
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Google Play caught hosting an app that steals users’ cryptocurrency
"Clipper" app replaced user's wallet address with addresses controlled by developers.
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AT&T sued by Sprint, must defend decision to tell users that 4G is “5G E”
Sprint says AT&T's "5G E" campaign violates laws against false advertising.
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Google Fiber’s biggest failure: ISP will turn service off in Louisville
Google Fiber will leave city and try to clean up the mess it made.
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Indecent disclosure: Gay dating app left “private” images, data exposed to Web (Updated)
Online-Buddies was exposing its Jack'd users' private images and location; disclosing posed a risk.
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Apple pushes fix for “FacePalm,” possibly its creepiest vulnerability ever
Bug in FaceTime Group feature allowed people to eavesdrop on users' audio and video.
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Indecent disclosure: Gay dating app left “private” images, data exposed to Web
Online-Buddies was exposing its Jack'd users' private images and location; disclosing posed a risk.
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Charter raises sneaky “broadcast TV” fee for second time in four months
Charter fee rose from $9 to $10 in November and will go up to $12 in March.
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LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice vulnerable to same bug; only one is fixed
Code-execution bug shows open source Office clones can be hacked, too.
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Indecent disclosure: Gay dating app left “private” images, data exposed to web
Online-Buddies was exposing its Jack'd users' private images and location; disclosing posed a risk.
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Google releases Chrome extension that alerts users of breached passwords
Using hashed and encrypted store, add-on securely checks logins against breach database.
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