Samsung has decided to release a new version of its secure external SSD T7 Shield. The device was introduced almost a year ago in 1 and 2 TB versions. Now, a 4 TB modification is entering the market. In Europe, they ask for 420 euros for such an SSD. For...
Network resources reported that examples appeared on the network of how the popular chat bot ChatGPT writes code for viruses. Network security company Check Point Research discovered this and said that the use of AI increases the danger from hackers. On the thematic forums, the first information about the successful...
Despite the huge number of sanctions imposed by the US and other countries against Huawei, Germany has only increased its dependence on this Chinese company. According to a recent Strand Consult report cited by Reuters, Germany has become even more dependent on Huawei to build 5G infrastructure than it was...
Google, as part of its Project Zero project, has published information about a new vulnerability CVE-2022-33917 that affects millions of smartphones. The fact is that we are talking about a vulnerability in Mali GPUs, which are used in a huge number of single-chip systems. Google does not specify, but the...
Elon Musk hired a hacker who created the world’s first iPhone jailbreak in 2007 and bypassed Sony consoles in 2010. We are talking about George Hotz (George Hotz), known under the nickname Geohot. He also founded the startup Comma.ai, where an autopilot system for cars is being developed. In 2015,...
The official Nvidia Taiwan Twitter account has been hacked. This account has been inactive since 2019, but today unexpectedly posted posts related to the Dogecoin cryptocurrency. Given the recent purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk and his love for this cryptocurrency, the situation looks quite funny. Be that as it...
The collapse of FTX, already one of the most spectacular in financial history, worsened as hundreds of millions of dollars were withdrawn from the cryptocurrency exchange hours after it filed for bankruptcy. Late Friday night, more than $600 million was stolen from FTX cryptocurrency wallets. Shortly thereafter, FTX claimed on...
32-year-old resident of Georgia (USA) James Zhong (James Zhong) pleaded guilty in front of a Manhattan court to “hacking communication fraud” of 50,676 BTC from Silk Road darknet marketplace back in 2012. Silk Road was the first major darknet marketplace, allowing merchants to sell often illegal goods in exchange for...
The Samsung Galaxy S10 series phones will soon be celebrating their fourth birthday, but the company is not going to stop their software support at all. So, now another update has been released, which improves the overall stability of the phones, as well as the stability of the camera application...
Google has confirmed a new Chrome zero-day vulnerability by issuing an emergency security update addressing this single highly rated issue. For the first time, the vulnerability under the number CVE-2022-3723 became known on October 25 from the reports of Avast researchers. Experts did not disclose details about the vulnerability. This...
Researchers from cybersecurity company WithSecure have discovered a dangerous vulnerability in Microsoft Office. According to Venture Beat, the error lies in the Microsoft Office message encryption service. Thanks to it, cybercriminals were able to uncover the block cipher of the electronic codebook (ECB), which contains information about the structure of...
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has undergone another hacker attack. The attackers managed to withdraw BNB tokens worth about $570 million. Somewhat earlier it was reported that the attack allowed the hackers to steal about $110 million, but now it turned out that everything is much worse. At the same time, the...
A Florida district court has sentenced 34-year-old IT engineer Sebastien Vashon-Desjardins to 20 years in prison for carrying out at least 90 cyberattacks. It is noted that for several years of his activity, the hacker, using the NetWalker encryption virus, earned about $ 27 million. A search of Vashon-Desjardins revealed...
Recently, various vulnerabilities in processors have been talked about much less often, and users no longer worry about performance degradation due to patches. As it turns out, Ryzen 7000 processors generally benefit from such patches! At least this is true for Linux, since it was in this OS that the...
Nearly two years after the PlayStation 5 went on sale, modders have found a way to jailbreak the console, albeit with some restrictions. IGN notes that the modder, known as SpecterDev, disclosed an apparent jailbreak that is described as an experimental IPV6 kernel exploit exploiting a WebKit vulnerability. The jailbreak...
An unknown hacker was able to access the business publication Fast Company’s Apple News account and sent out a series of obscene and racist messages via push notifications. Subscribers are the victims. Fast Company confirmed the hack, and so did Apple. The incident is currently under investigation. “Fast Company’s Apple...
