Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hype and hyperbole were on full display this week as the security world reacted to reports of yet another Log4Shell. The vulnerability came to light in December and is arguably one of the gravest Internet threats in years. Christened Spring4Shell—the new code-execution bug in the widely used Spring Java framework—quickly set...
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(BPRW) MIT’s SDSCon 2022 – Ethnic Technologies to Sponsor
(Black PR Wire) On April 1, 2022, E-Tech will be one of the sponsors of SCSCon 2022 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). SDSCon is a celebration and community-building event for those interested in statistics and data science. Discuss
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Amazon Union Vote in Alabama Favors Opponents for Now
The count was much closer than another unionization vote taken at the facility last year.
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Ben McKenzie, “O.C.” Star, Pivots to Crypto Critic
The actor, best known for his starring role in “The O.C.,” has become an outspoken critic of a volatile market driven by speculation. Who’s listening?
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Adults or Sexually Abused Minors? Getting It Right Vexes Facebook
The company reports millions of photos and videos of suspected child sexual abuse each year. But when ages are unclear, young people are treated as adults and the images are not reported to the authorities.
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Hugs to Boring
Don’t underestimate the tech that makes your eyes glaze over. It holds us all up.
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Biden Invokes Defense Production Act to Boost Critical Mineral Supply
The action aims to enhance American production of crucial materials for electric vehicles, defense systems and other technologies.
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Apple rushes out patches for two zero-days threatening iOS and macOS users
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Apple on Thursday released fixes for two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in iPhones, iPads, and Macs that give hackers dangerous access to the internals of the OSes the devices run on. Apple credited an anonymous researcher with discovering both vulnerabilities. The first vulnerability, CVE-2022-22675, resides in macOS for Monterey and in iOS...
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Mystery solved in destructive attack that knocked out >10k Viasat modems
Enlarge / A Viasat Internet satellite dish in the yard of a house in Madison, Virginia. (credit: Getty Images) Viasat—the high-speed-satellite-broadband provider whose modems were knocked out in Ukraine and other parts of Europe earlier in March—confirmed a theory by third-party researchers that new wiper malware with possible ties to the Russian government was responsible...
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Researchers used a decommissioned satellite to broadcast hacker TV
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | 3DSculptor) Independent researchers and the United States military have become increasingly focused on orbiting satellites’ potential security vulnerabilities in recent years. These devices, which are built primarily with durability, reliability, and longevity in mind, were largely never intended to be ultra-secure. But at the ShmooCon security conference in Washington, DC,...