by Dan Goodin, Ars Technica | Mar 3, 2021 | News
Over the weekend, word emerged that a hacker breached far-right social media website Gab and downloaded 70 gigabytes of data by exploiting a garden-variety security flaw known as an SQL injection. A quick review of Gab’s open source code shows that the critical...
by Dan Goodin, Ars Technica | Feb 10, 2021 | News
A benign barcode scanner with more than 10 million downloads from Google Play has been caught receiving an upgrade that turned it to the dark side, prompting the search-and-advertising giant to remove it. Barcode Scanner, one of dozens of such apps available in the...
by Dan Goodin, Ars Technica | Jan 23, 2021 | News
If you’re like lots of people, someone has probably nagged you to use a password manager and you still haven’t heeded the advice. Now, Chrome and Edge are coming to the rescue with beefed-up password management built directly into the browsers. Microsoft on Thursday...
by Dan Goodin, Ars Technica | Jan 15, 2021 | News
Google researchers have detailed a sophisticated hacking operation that exploited vulnerabilities in Chrome and Windows to install malware on Android and Windows devices.Some of the exploits were zero-days, meaning they targeted vulnerabilities that at the time were...
by Dan Goodin, Ars Technica | Jan 6, 2021 | News
Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine after admitting its employees repeatedly used stolen passwords and other means to hack a rival ticket sales company. The fine, which is part of a deferred prosecution agreement Ticketmaster entered with...
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