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Tag: Biz & IT
GameStop offers $56 billion for eBay, struggles to explain how it’ll pay for it
Amid falling revenue and store closures, GameStop wants to buy the much larger eBay. A GameStop store at Aventura Mall […]
Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down ever […]
The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is […]
Why a recent supply-chain attack singled out security firms Checkmarx and Bitwarden
“Current evidence indicates that this data originated from Checkmarx’s GitHub repositories, and that access to those repositories was facilitated through […]
Open source package with 1 million monthly downloads stole user credentials
The developers are urging all developers who installed version 0.23.3 to take the following steps immediately: 1. Check your installed […]
Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.
With that, they have now hijacked that university’s subdomain. Given the reputations universities have, search queries then flow to the […]
In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe
There is no practical benefit for Kyber developers to have chosen a PQC key-exchange algorithm. The Kyber ransom note gives […]
Microsoft issues emergency update for macOS and Linux ASP.NET threat
Microsoft released an emergency patch for its ASP.NET Core to fix a high-severity vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain […]
Contrary to popular superstition, AES 128 is just fine in a post-quantum world
On Monday Valsorda finally channelled years’ worth of frustration fueled by the widely held misunderstanding into a blog post titled […]