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North Korea-backed hackers have a clever way to read your Gmail
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North Korea-backed hackers have a clever way to read your Gmail

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have unearthed never-before-seen malware that hackers from North Korea have been using to surreptitiously read and download email and attachments from infected users’ Gmail and AOL accounts. The malware, dubbed SHARPEXT by researchers from security firm Volexity, uses clever means to install a browser extension for the Chrome and Edge...

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Intel’s loss is AMD’s gain as EPYC server CPUs benefit from Intel’s delays

Enlarge / AMD’s EPYC server processors are benefitting from Intel’s delays. (credit: AMD) Earnings reports for tech companies this quarter have been mixed at best. Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and others have managed to eke out a little growth, while the likes of Meta and Nintendo shrank a little, and most companies’ projections for the next quarter...

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Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In the US government’s ongoing campaign to protect data in the age of quantum computers, a new and powerful attack that used a single traditional computer to completely break a fourth-round candidate highlights the risks involved in standardizing the next generation of encryption algorithms. Last month, the US Department of Commerce’s...

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Charter loses home Internet customers, blames end of COVID subsidy program

Enlarge / Charter CEO Tom Rutledge speaks during The New York Times DealBook conference in New York on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) The two largest home Internet providers in the US both lost subscribers in the second quarter of 2022. On Friday, Charter Communications reported a loss of 42,000 residential...