Is the UK’s pingdemic good or bad? Yes. Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Chris Stokel-Walker, Lindsay Muscato - July 24, 20210 Oscar Maung-Haley, 24, was working a part-time job in a bar in Manchester, England, when his phone pinged. It was the UK’s NHS Test and Trace app letting him know he’d potentially been exposed to covid-19 and needed to self-isolate. The news immediately caused problems. “It was a mad dash
The end of open source? Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Annie Siebert - July 18, 20210 Shaun O’Meara Contributor Share on Twitter Shaun O’Meara, global field CTO at Mirantis, has worked with customers designing and building enterprise IT infrastructure for 20 years. Several weeks ago, the Linux community was rocked by the disturbing news that University of Minnesota researchers had developed (but, as it turned out, not fully executed) a
Microsoft warns zero-day in SolarWinds Serv-U software being exploited by Chinese threat group Data Breach by Derek B. Johnson - July 14, 20210 SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna attends a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Feb. 23, 2021, in Washington. A new zero-day affecting SolarWinds’ Serv-U software has seen “limited and targeted” exploitation by a threat group based in China, Microsoft warned. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman-Pool/Getty Images) Microsoft said it discovered a
NewsBlur hit by ransomware because of Docker glitch, but restores service in 10 hours Data Breach by Steve Zurier - June 30, 20210 Personal news reader NewsBlur being down for several hours last week following a data exposure. (“newsblur start” by renaissancechambara is licensed under CC BY 2.0) Turns out the recent story about the personal news reader NewsBlur being down for several hours last week following a data exposure has a happy ending: the owner retained an
New BIOS vulnerabilities impact tens of millions of Dell computer hardware Data Breach by Derek B. Johnson - June 25, 20210 Computer hardware giant Dell disclosed four high-impact vulnerabilities today that let an attacker inject arbitrary code during the pre-booting process and bypass security controls. The vulnerabilities, discovered by security researchers at Eclypsium, attack the BIOSConnect feature within Dell Client BIOS and affects 30 million devices across 128 different Dell models, including
We investigated whether digital contact tracing actually worked in the US Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Betsy Ladyzhets - June 19, 20210 In the spring of 2020, the first versions of covid-19 exposure notification systems were released to the public. These systems promised to slow the disease’s spread by providing automated warnings to people who came into contact with the virus. Now, over a year later, residents in over 50 countries—including half
UChecker tool scans Linux servers for outdated libraries Data Breach by Steve Zurier - June 16, 20210 Oracle Co-Founder Larry Ellison delivers a keynote address at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in 2006. Security teams running Linux servers now have access to UChecker, a new tool from CloudLinux that runs scans on Linux servers to detect outdated shared libraries on both disk and in memory.(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Security teams
New Siloscape malware targets Windows containers and highlights security pitfalls Data Breach by Derek B. Johnson - June 7, 20210 A visitor photographs a symbol of a cloud at the Deutsche Telekom stand the day before the CeBIT technology trade fair. Researchers have discovered what they believe is the first malware strain developed to target Windows containers. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Researchers at Palo Alto Unit 42 have discovered what they think
The open-source Contributor Covenant is now managed by the Organization for Ethical Source Cyber Security by Frederic Lardinois - May 27, 20210 Managing the technical side of open-source projects is often hard enough, but throw in the inevitable conflicts between contributors, who are often very passionate about their contributions, and things get even harder. One way to establish ground rules for open-source communities is the Contributor Covenant, created by Coraline Ada Ehmke
Chrome 91 features 32 security fixes, enhancements for Linux Data Breach by Steve Zurier - May 27, 20210 Google on Tuesday announced Chrome 91, which includes 32 security fixes, lots of usability features, and notably, that the ChromeOS will now support Linux. This latest version of Chrome supports DoH, or DNS-over-HTTPS, said Sean Nikkel, senior cyber threat intel analyst at Digital Shadows. Nikkel said the DoH feature was previously