Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Apple has released several security updates this week to patch a “FORCEDENTRY” vulnerability on iOS devices. The “zero-click, zero-day” vulnerability has been actively exploited by Pegasus, a spyware Read more…
Enlarge / This isn’t how the OMIGOD vulnerability works, of course—but lightning is much more photogenic than maliciously crafted XML. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Cloud security vendor Wiz—which recently made news by discovering Read more…
Enlarge / If you don’t maintain good relationships with bug reporters, you may not get to control the disclosure timeline. (credit: mhatzapa via Getty Images / Jim Salter) The Washington Post reported earlier today that Apple’s Read more…
Enlarge / The security of Facebook’s popular messaging app leaves several rather important devils in its details. (credit: WhatsApp) Yesterday, independent newsroom ProPublica published a detailed piece examining the popular WhatsApp messaging platform’s privacy claims. The Read more…
Enlarge / ProtonMail offers end-to-end encryption and a stated focus on privacy for its email service—which offers a user interface quite similar to those of more mainstream services such as Gmail. (credit: Jim Salter) This Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer | Getty Images) If you receive an email from someone@arstechnіca.com, is it really from someone at Ars? Most definitely not—the domain in that email address is not the same arstechnica.com that you Read more…
Enlarge / Gah, don’t you miss unstressed travel? (credit: Klaus Vedfelt / Getty Images) On the Friday heading into Memorial Day weekend this year, it was meat processing giant JBS. On the Friday before the Read more…
Enlarge / Each Telum package consists of two 7nm, eight-core / sixteen-thread processors running at a base clock speed above 5GHz. A typical system will have sixteen of these chips in total, arranged in four-socket Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Popular NPM package “pac-resolver” has fixed a severe remote code execution (RCE) flaw. The pac-resolver package receives over 3 million weekly downloads, extending this vulnerability to Node.js applications relying on the Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Windows 11 is no longer merely “coming this fall.” Microsoft will begin releasing the new operating system to the public on October 5, starting with newer PCs (and PCs being sold in Read more…