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Feds say Ukrainian man running malware service amassed 50M unique credentials

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Charles O’Rear) Federal prosecutors have charged a 26-year-old Ukrainian national with operating a malware service that was responsible for stealing sensitive data from more than 2 million individuals around the world. Prosecutors in Texas said on Tuesday that Mark Sokolovsky, 26, of Ukraine helped operate “Raccoon,” an info stealer program...

“Too much and too soon”—Steven Sinofsky looks back at Windows 8, 10 years later
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“Too much and too soon”—Steven Sinofsky looks back at Windows 8, 10 years later

Enlarge / A billboard showing Windows 8 in Times Square in New York at the Microsoft Store in October 2012. (credit: Personal photo from Steven Sinofsky) On October 26, 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8, a hybrid tablet/desktop operating system that took bold risks but garnered mixed reviews. Ten years later, we’ve caught up with former...

Apple releases patch for iPhone and iPad 0-day reported by anonymous source
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Apple releases patch for iPhone and iPad 0-day reported by anonymous source

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Apple on Monday patched a high-severity zero-day vulnerability that gives attackers the ability to remotely execute malicious code that runs with the highest privileges inside the operating system kernel of fully up-to-date iPhones and iPads. In an advisory, Apple said that CVE-2022-42827, as the vulnerability is tracked, “may have been actively...