Security

Windows 11 22H2 update includes enhanced phishing protection

Facebook found more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps stealing login credentials

Source code for Alder Lake BIOS was posted to GitHub

Telegram founder calls WhatsApp a "surveillance tool" with "planted backdoors"

Boston Dynamics: please don't use our robots as weapons

The big picture: The leading companies in the robotics industry want to dissuade people of turning harmless machines into weapons with killing intents. General-purpose robots equipped with powerful firearms could spell doom for the very future of the industry, they say.

2K Games confirms user details were stolen in data breach last month

Tech companies destroy millions of reusable storage devices every year

The White House unveils a "Bill of Rights" for artificial intelligence

Former Uber executive found guilty of covering up 2016 hack

Overwatch 2 suffers multiple DDoS attacks on launch day

Microsoft Exchange under 0-day attack, hundreds of thousands of servers at risk

TikTok and others scrape your data, whether you use their apps or not

Former admin borks ex-employer's network to try to get his job back with a raise

Backdoor.Stegmap, malware hiding in a plain Microsoft Windows logo

The big picture: Backdoor.Stegmap is a potent backdoor hidden within a simple Windows logo image file through steganography-based encryption. Chinese cyber-criminals are working hard with new and old techniques to permanently compromise high-level government and diplomatic targets.

Chaos: a powerful malware infecting multiple systems and architectures

Someone hacked Fast Company and sent obscene, racist Apple News push alerts

Facebook users are suing Meta for tracking them through a loophole on iOS

Python affected by 15-year-old bug that keeps on giving

In brief: The Python programming language is being impacted by security issue programmers have know about for a while. Trellix researchers recently rediscovered a bug, highlighting the risk for hundreds of thousands of software projects and creating patches for tens of thousands of them.

SEC fines Morgan Stanley $35 million after exposing customer data on 1,000 auctioned hard drives

GTA 6 leakers may be the target of an FBI investigation

Watch out for phishing emails from 2K Games Support, it was hacked

When it rains, it pours: Still reeling from a GTA 6 leak over the weekend, Take-Two got nailed with another data breach. This time it was subsidiary 2K Games taking the hit when a hacker accessed an internal support account and began sending out official 2K emails with links to a phishing website. It is still unclear if Take-Two has contained the intrusion and how many customers were affected, but the entire 2K support division is shut down until further notice.

Browser-based spell check from Google and Microsoft can lead to stolen personal data

Hackers are spreading malware through YouTube channels promoting game cheats

WTF?! Gamers looking to download cheats and cracks should beware of links in YouTube video descriptions. Hackers may have compromised the channels hosting the videos, turning them into vectors for spreading malware that can steal login credentials.

Akamai curbed a new record DDoS attack against one of its European customers

Uber confirms "cybersecurity incident" after 18-year-old claimed to be behind massive breach

What just happened? Uber is investigating a cybersecurity incident that has compromised many of its internal systems, giving the hacker, who says he is just 18 years old, almost complete access to the company's network. The breach is thought to be as bad as or worse than the 2016 incident that exposed the details of 57 million customers.