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Crosswalks in Silicon Valley hacked to play satirical messages from Musk and Zuckerberg sound-a-likes
By Mark Tyson published
A number of Silicon Valley crosswalks were hacked to sound like U.S. big-tech broligarchs, according to reports published by local media this weekend.
Windows Update drops empty 'intepub' folder in system, leaves users scratching heads after April update
By Mark Tyson published
Computer security researchers have been left scratching their heads after applying Microsoft’s latest raft of Patch Tuesday updates - as an 'inetpub' folder has been left behind.
WinRAR security flaw ignores Windows Mark of the Web security warnings
By Ash Hill published
WinRAR users not running the latest version are subject to a security flaw that's capable of ignoring the Windows Mark of the Web security warnings.
Apartment complexes broken into with phone in minutes
By Dallin Grimm published
A wide list of apartment complexes using IoT-connected intercoms still use the default logins from their manuals, making them easily accessible by bad actors.
CS2 fans targeted by Streamjackers — viewers shown fishy links, QR codes
By Mark Tyson published
Cybercriminals are targeting the CS2 community with streamjacking scams. Innocents have been lured into sharing Steam credentials, and paying into crypto-doubling scams.
Security researcher finds vulnerability in internet-connected bed
By Christopher Harper published
Web-connected smart bed provider Eight Sleep revealed to be including an SSH backdoor in its beds, as well as exposing a live AWS key.
Intel roasts AMD and Nvidia in its latest product security report, claiming AMD has vulnerabilities with no fix planned, Nvidia has only high-severity security bugs [Updated]
By Jowi Morales published
Intel says that AMD and Nvidia had more vulnerabilities versus its products.
Nvidia's January GPU driver update patches multiple vulnerabilities
By Christopher Harper published
Nvidia releases another series of security updates for its GPU drivers.
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