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Unpatched Zimbra flaw under attack is letting hackers backdoor servers

Enlarge (credit: Jeremy Brooks / Flickr) An unpatched code-execution vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration software is under active exploitation by attackers using the attacks to backdoor servers. The attacks began no later than September 7, when a Zimbra customer reported a few days later that a server running the company’s Amavis spam-filtering engine processed an...

After 23 years, Weather Channel’s iconic computerized channel is shutting down
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After 23 years, Weather Channel’s iconic computerized channel is shutting down

Enlarge / An on-air capture of Weatherscan in 2020. Weatherscan shows 24/7 weather forecasts controlled by computer. (credit: TWC Archive) In the early 2000s, Americans who wanted to catch the local weather forecast at any time might turn on their TV and switch over to Weatherscan, a 24-hour computer-controlled weather forecast channel with a relaxing...

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Binance blockchain suffers $570 million hack

Enlarge / CHINA – 2022/07/25: In this photo illustration, the cryptocurrency exchange trading platform Binance logo is displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (credit: SOPA Images) Hackers have stolen around $570 million in tokens from Binance, in a rare blow to the world’s biggest crypto exchange and...

2K warns users their info has been stolen following breach of its help desk
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2K warns users their info has been stolen following breach of its help desk

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Game company 2K on Thursday warned users to remain on the lookout for suspicious activity across their accounts following a breach last month that allowed a threat actor to obtain email addresses, names, and other sensitive information provided to 2K’s support team. The breach occurred on September 19, when the threat...

Boston Dynamics *really* does not want you to add weapons to its robots
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Boston Dynamics *really* does not want you to add weapons to its robots

Enlarge / Herbert Reul, Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, looks at Boston Dynamics’ robot police dog in January 2022. (credit: Getty Images) Boston Dynamics and several other robotics companies have pledged not to weaponize “general purpose robots” according to an open letter released publicly on Thursday and first reported by Axios. Although with sizable caveats...

IoT harmony? What Matter and Thread really mean for your smart home
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IoT harmony? What Matter and Thread really mean for your smart home

Enlarge / Matter promises to make smart home devices work with any control system you want to use, securely. This marketing image also seems to promise an intriguing future involving smart mid-century modern chairs and smart statement globes. (credit: CSA) The specification for Matter 1.0 was released on Tuesday—all 899 pages of it. More importantly,...

Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse
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Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse

Enlarge / Tech decommissioning businesses have been transformed from what some describe as a collection of “man with a van” outfits into a regulated industry. (credit: Lorne Campbell, Guzelian, and SWEEEP Kuusakoski) Mick Payne remembers the moment the madness of the way we dispose of our data was brought home to him. The chief operating...

No fix in sight for mile-wide loophole plaguing a key Windows defense for years
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No fix in sight for mile-wide loophole plaguing a key Windows defense for years

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Over the past 15 years, Microsoft has made huge progress fortifying the Windows kernel, the core of the OS that hackers must control to successfully take control of a computer. A cornerstone of that progress was the enactment of strict new restrictions on the loading of system drivers that could run...