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Swatters used Ring cameras to livestream attacks, taunt police, prosecutors say

Enlarge Federal prosecutors have charged two men with allegedly taking part in a spree of swatting attacks against more than a dozen owners of compromised Ring home security cameras and using that access to livestream the police response on social media. Kya Christian Nelson, 21, of Racine, Wisconsin, and James Thomas Andrew McCarty, 20, of...

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Make your noisy recording sound like pro audio with Adobe’s free AI tool

Enlarge / Adobe’s Enhance Speech service can remove background noise from certain voice recordings. (credit: Adobe) Recently, Adobe released a free AI-powered audio processing tool that can enhance some poor-quality voice recordings by removing background noise and making the voice sound stronger. When it works, the result sounds like a recording made in a professional...

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Critical Windows code-execution vulnerability went undetected until now

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers recently discovered a Windows code-execution vulnerability that has the potential to rival EternalBlue, the name of a different Windows security flaw used to detonate WannaCry, the ransomware that shut down computer networks across the world in 2017. Like EternalBlue, CVE-2022-37958, as the latest vulnerability is tracked, allows attackers to execute...

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Lobbyists have held up nation’s first right-to-repair bill in New York

Enlarge / Tech companies, including Apple, have lobbied hard to prevent a New York bill that would require them to make repair information and parts available to individuals and non-affiliated repair techs. (credit: Getty Images) The Digital Fair Repair Act, the first right-to-repair bill to entirely pass through a state legislature, is awaiting New York...

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The risk of escalation from cyberattacks has never been greater

Enlarge (credit: Huang Evan via Getty Images) In 2022, an American dressed in his pajamas took down North Korea’s Internet from his living room. Fortunately, there was no reprisal against the United States. But Kim Jong Un and his generals must have weighed retaliation and asked themselves whether the so-called independent hacker was a front...