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malware British schoolkids issued laptops conveniently pre-loaded with malware that connects with Russian servers Mark Frauenfelder
surveillance tech Facebook accuses Israel's NSO Group of exploiting U.S. servers to infect 100s of devices via WhatsApp Xeni Jardin
mac If you are a Mac user, here's how to avoid the most common kind of malware Mark Frauenfelder
obamaphone Virgin's subsidized smartphones come with unremovable Chinese malware Cory Doctorow
pwned Malicious websites that hacked into iPhones over 2-year period targeted Uyghur Muslims in China: Report Xeni Jardin
acoustic hacking Compromised speakers can be forced to play tones so loud that the speakers start to melt Cory Doctorow
AT&T sucks AT&T employees took over $1 million in bribes to plant malware and unlock millions of smartphones: DOJ Xeni Jardin
brickerbot An 14-year-old's Internet-of-Things worm is bricking shitty devices by the thousands Cory Doctorow
ang cui Thangrycat: a deadly Cisco vulnerability named after an emoji ??? Cory Doctorow
safe hex Florida man convinces Western Union clerk to insert a thumb drive, steals $32K, does it again, gets caught Cory Doctorow
reality detection system Android malware uses accelerometer readings to figure out if it was running on a real phone or in emulation Cory Doctorow
seagapped isn't airgapped Ships are just giant floating computers, filled with ransomware, BadUSB, and worms Cory Doctorow
takedowns Malware authors have figured out how to get Google to do "irreversible takedowns" of the sites they compete with Cory Doctorow
event-stream Malware vector: become an admin on dormant, widely-used open source projects Cory Doctorow
everybody hates alex Alex Jones blames "leftist stay-behind networks in US intelligence agencies" for malware on his site Cory Doctorow
superweapons in the hands of dum-dums Wannacry ransomware cost the British National Health Service £92m ($121m) Cory Doctorow
exploits Tweaks made to Android OS are causing massive security holes Séamus Bellamy
just throw it out New Vpnfilter analysis: modules attack router owners and target industrial control systems; reinfection still possible, more routers vulnerable Cory Doctorow
routers FBI says to reboot your router ASAP to avoid Russia malware VPNFilter Xeni Jardin
busy box FBI sinkholes a key domain used by the malware that infected 500,000 home routers, declares partial victory and Russian attribution Cory Doctorow