Smartphones today are a firmly established commodity. Components are democratized, and so are consumer expectations of what makes a phone great at various price points. The best foldables and camera phones add some excitement to the mix, but to shake the status quo would take a dramatic shift from the existing options on the market. Do we really need another player to do more of the same?
Open source software with more than 1 million monthly downloads was compromised after a threat actor exploited a vulnerability in the developers’ account workflow that gave access to its signing keys and other sensitive information. Read more…
Websites for some of the world’s most prestigious universities are serving explicit porn and malicious content after scammers exploited the shoddy record-keeping of the site administrators, a researcher found recently. The sites included berkeley.edu, columbia.edu, Read more…
A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble files—making, or at least claiming, that it is protected against attacks by quantum computers. Kyber, Read more…