Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers aligned with the government of Iran are exploiting the critical Log4j vulnerability to infect unpatched VMware users with ransomware, researchers said on Thursday. Security firm SentinelOne has dubbed the group TunnelVision. The name is meant to emphasize TunnelVision’s heavy reliance on tunneling tools and the unique way it deploys them....
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Google Plans Privacy Changes, but Promises to Not Be Disruptive
It says it will give other companies plenty of time to adapt to changes to its Android software. Similar changes made by Apple affected big internet companies.
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How Tech Can (and Can’t) Help You Fight Soaring Energy Bills
Thermostats like Nest go a long way toward helping you use less energy, but the real problem-solvers are people.
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Union Election Is Set at Amazon’s Staten Island Warehouse
The timing of the vote coincides with an election at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., outside Birmingham.
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Nope to Metamates, Googlers and Puritans
It’s time for tech employees to outgrow their cutesy names. Please.
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Tech Companies Face a Fresh Crisis: Hiring
Recruiters in tech are desperate for workers. But candidates are the ones who hold all the power.
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US says Russian state hackers lurked in defense contractor networks for months
Enlarge / What’s happened to Russia’s flag? (credit: Sean Gladwell / Getty Images) Hackers backed by the Russian government have breached the networks of multiple US defense contractors in a sustained campaign that has revealed sensitive information about US weapons-development communications infrastructure, the federal government said on Wednesday. The campaign began no later than January...
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Out With the Facebookers. In With the Metamates.
Now that Facebook has renamed itself Meta, that’s what employees will be known as, the company said.
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Flood of malicious junk traffic makes Ukrainian websites unreachable
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ukraine’s defense ministry and two banks were knocked offline on Tuesday by a flood of malicious traffic designed to prevent people from visiting the sites, Ukraine’s information security center said. The distributed denial-of-service attacks targeted the websites for Ukraine’s defense ministry, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two banks, Privatbank and...
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Researchers find threat group that has been active for 5 years
Enlarge / Warning: Data transfer in progress (credit: Yuri_Arcurs/Getty Images) Researchers on Tuesday revealed a new threat actor that over the past five years has blasted thousands of organizations with an almost endless stream of malicious messages designed to infect systems with data-stealing malware. TA2541, as security firm Proofpoint has named the hacking group, has...