Enlarge (credit: Kevin Beaumont) The list of services with Internet-facing infrastructure that is vulnerable to a critical zero-day vulnerability in the open source Log4j logging utility is immense and reads like a who’s who of the biggest names on the Internet, including Apple, Amazon, Cloudflare, Steam, Tesla, Twitter, and Baidu. The vulnerability, now going by...
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Zero-day in ubiquitous Log4j tool poses a grave threat to the Internet
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Exploit code has been released for a serious code-execution vulnerability in Log4j, an open source logging utility that’s used in countless apps, including those used by large enterprise organizations, several websites reported last Thursday. Word of the vulnerability first came to light on sites catering to users of Minecraft, the best-selling...
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Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory.
Peter McIndoe, the 23-year-old creator of the viral Birds Aren’t Real movement, is ready to reveal what the effort is really about.
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Gig Worker Protections Get a Push in European Proposal
A proposal with widespread political support would entitle drivers and couriers for companies like Uber to a minimum wage and legal protections.
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Why Apps Suddenly Want to Protect Kids
New British guidelines are influencing what U.S. internet companies do to protect American children.
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BuzzFeed Stock Drops Nearly 24 Percent
The speed and depth of the decline in BuzzFeed’s stock may in part be because there is a small number of shares available to trade.
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Elizabeth Holmes’ Defense Rests Their Case in Fraud Trial
Lawyers must now agree on a set of jury instructions before closing arguments begin on Dec. 16.
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300,000 MikroTik routers are ticking security time bombs, researchers say
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As many as 300,000 routers made by Latvia-based MikroTik are vulnerable to remote attacks that can surreptitiously corral the devices into botnets that steal sensitive user data and participate in Internet-crippling DDoS attacks, researchers said. The estimate, made by researchers at security firm Eclypsium, is based on Internet-wide scans that searched...
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(BPRW) Amazon Launches Accelerator Program to Grow Opportunities for Real Estate Developers of Color and Increase Affordable Housing
(Black PR Wire) SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Today Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced it is committing more than $21 million to pilot a professional training, mentorship, and capital funding program to help promote real estate developers of color. This two-yea
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Lawmakers Urge Instagram’s Adam Mosseri to Better Protect Children
Adam Mosseri, the company’s leader, was asked to appear before a Senate panel after internal research leaked that said the app had a toxic effect on some teenagers.