Friday, September 29, 2023

Lily Hay Newman

Bcrypt, a Popular Password Hashing Algorithm, Starts Its Long Goodbye

When data breaches went from being an occasional threat to a persistent fact of life during the early 2010s, one question would come up again and again as victim organizations, cybersecurity researchers, law enforcement, and regular people assessed the...

There’s Finally a Way to Improve Cloud Container Registry Security

As software supply-chain attacks have emerged as an everyday threat, where bad actors poison a step in the development or distribution process, the tech industry has had a wake-up call about the need to secure each link in the...

The Real Risks in Google’s New .Zip and .Mov Domains

At the beginning of May, Google released eight new top-level domains (TLDs)—the suffixes at the end of URLs, like “.com” or “.uk.” These little addendums were developed decades ago to expand and organize URLs, and over the years, the...

A Mysterious Group Has Ties to 15 Years of Ukraine-Russia Hacks

Russian security firm Kaspersky today released new research that adds another piece to the puzzle of a hacker group whose operations appear to stretch back further than researchers previously realized.Research published last week from the security firm Malwarebytes shed...

ChatGPT Scams Are Infiltrating Apple's App Store and Google Play

Any major trend or world event, from the coronavirus pandemic to the cryptocurrency frenzy, will quickly be used as fodder in digital phishing attacks and other online scams. In recent months, it has become clear that the same would...

A Mysterious New Hacker Group, Red Stinger, Is Lurking in Ukraine’s Cyberspace

Ukrainian networks have been on the receiving end of grimly sophisticated and innovative cyberattacks from pRussia for nearly a decade, and Ukraine has increasingly struck back, particularly since the Kremlin's invasion last year. Amidst all of this and activity...

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At first, Anand thought it was just a glitch. He’d read a few tweets saying that withdrawals from FTX—then the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in...

2023 People’s Choice Country Awards Performances Ranked

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