“Google’s Threat Analysis Group has revealed that state-sponsored hackers launched the largest ever recorded distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the company back in 2017.”
Hackers are using a severe Windows bug to backdoor unpatched servers
“One of the most critical Windows vulnerabilities disclosed this year is under active attack by hackers who are trying to backdoor servers that store credentials for every user and administrative account on a network, a researcher said on Friday.”
A group of hackers won $288,500 from Apple for telling the company about 55 bugs, including one that would’ve let an attacker steal someone’s iCloud photos
“They were operating as “white hat” hackers, meaning their goal was to alert Apple to the vulnerabilities rather than to steal information. The team was led by 20-year-old Sam Curry, along with Brett Buerhaus, Ben Sadeghipourmsec, Samuel Erb, and Tanner Barnes.”
Windows “Ping of Death” bug revealed – patch now!
“Every time that critical patches come out for any operating system, device or app that we think you might be using, you can predict in advance what we’re going to say. Patch early, patch often.”
Android ransomware has picked up some ominous new tricks
“Though ransomware has been around for years, it poses an ever-increasing threat to hospitals, municipal governments, and basically any institution that can’t tolerate downtime.”
Elon Musk’s space-faring red Tesla just did a flyby of Mars
“The territory around Mars just got infinitely cooler as SpaceX’s “Starman,” the spacesuit-sporting mannequin behind the wheel of Elon Musk’s solar system-travelling Tesla Roadster, just made his first intimate flyby of the Red Planet this week, coming within 5 million miles of the ruddy-colored”
Microsoft takes down massive hacking operation that could have affected the election
“Microsoft has disrupted a massive hacking operation that it said could have indirectly affected election infrastructure if allowed to continue.”
Apple pays $288,000 to white-hat hackers who had run of company’s network
“For months, Apple’s corporate network was at risk of hacks that could have stolen sensitive data from potentially millions of its customers and executed malicious code on their phones and computers, a security researcher said on Thursday.”
Researchers find 36 new security flaws in LTE protocol
“The vulnerabilities allow attackers to disrupt mobile base stations, block incoming calls to a device, disconnect users from a mobile network, send spoofed SMS messages, and eavesdrop and manipulate user data traffic.”
T2 security chip on Macs can be hacked to plant malware; cannot be patched
“Security researchers have confirmed speculation that the T2 security chip on modern Macs can be hacked. A combination of two different exploits would give a hacker the ability to modify the behavior of the chip, and even plant malware like a keylogger inside it.”
