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Researchers Develop Soft Robot That Shifts from Land to Sea with Ease
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Stealthy UEFI Malware Bypassing Secure Boot Enabled by Unpatchable Windows Flaw
Researchers at Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET have found the first real-world case of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface malware that can take over a computer's...
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RSA's Demise from Quantum Attacks is Very Much Exaggerated, Expert Says
Simson Garfinkel says the focus on quantum attacks may distract us from more immediate threats.
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Pentagon Picked Four Tech Companies to Form $9B Cloud Computing Network
Microsoft agrees multi-cloud strategy is "the right one" for U.S. Defense Department.
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Lost Something? Search 91.7 Million Files from the '80s, '90s, 2000s
A new website allows users to sift through 91.7 million computer files from CD-ROM releases and floppy discs dating back to the 1980s.
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Bluetooth Hack Can Unlock Tesla, Devices
Sultan Qasim Khan at U.K.-based security firm NCC Group devised an exploit for unlocking Teslas and countless other devices.
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New Attack Amplifies DDoSes by 4 Billion-Fold
New technique also stretches out distributed denial of service durations to 14 hours.
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EU Announces Plans to Require All Mobile Devices to Use USB-C
Devices using only wireless charging would be exempt from the mandate.
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Microsoft's Emergency Patch Fails to Fix Critical 'PrintNightmare' Vulnerability
Researchers warn a Microsoft software patch did not fully correct a flaw in the Windows operating system that allows hackers to commandeer infected networks.
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Newly Discovered Vigilante Malware Outs Software Pirates, Blocks Them
SophosLabs researcher Andrew Brandt has discovered malware that identifies and blocks software pirates.
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Self-Driving Waymo Trucks to Haul Loads Between Houston, Fort Worth
Waymo and trucking company JB Hunt have partnered to haul cargo loads autonomously between Houston and Fort Worth, TX.
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Security Researcher Successfully Jailbreaks Apple AirTag
German security researcher stacksmashing was able to break into, dump, and reflash the microcontroller of Apple's AirTag object-location product.
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Chipmaker Says It Will Ramp Up Production of Older 28nm Chips
Fourth-largest contract chipmaker aiming at supply problems for carmakers, others.
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High-Performance Computers Under Siege by Newly Discovered Backdoor
Researchers at Slovak security firm Eset said a newly discovered backdoor allows hackers to remotely execute arbitrary commands on some high-performance computer...
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Hackers Exploit Backdoor Built Into Zyxel Devices
Niels Teusink, a researcher at Netherlands-based security firm Eye Control, found that hackers are attempting to exploit a backdoor built into several Zyxel device...
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New RISC-V CPU Claims Recordbreaking Performance per Watt
Micro Magic's new CPU offers decent performance with record-breaking efficiency.
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Machine Learning Clusters in Azure Hijacked to Mine Cryptocurrency
Microsoft's Azure Security Center reported a cryptojacking scheme in which attackers hijacked machine learning clusters inside the Azure cloud computing service...
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The Pandemic is Bringing Us Closer to Our Robot Takeout Future
"We saw that business double overnight," startup says of UK grocery deliveries.
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Windows Code-Execution Zero-day Is Under Active Exploit, Microsoft Warns
Microsoft has issued a warning that a Windows zero-day vulnerability is being exploited in "limited targeted attacks" to execute malicious code on fully updated...
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Intel SGX is Vulnerable to an Unfixable Flaw That Can Steal Crypto Keys and More
A team of international researchers disclosed a previously undiscovered vulnerability that steals information from Intel's Software Guard eXtensions.
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