Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:31:33 +0000
Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technology—but the duration serves as a warning.
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Credit to Author: Paolo Armelli| Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:18:18 +0000
In just seven minutes, the thieves took off with crown jewels containing with thousands of diamonds along with other precious gems.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:22:46 +0000
Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet’s infrastructure.
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Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000
Anthropic partnered with the US government to create a filter meant to block Claude from helping someone build a nuke. Experts are divided on whether its a necessary protection—or a protection at all.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: A secret FBI anti-ransomware task force gets exposed, the mystery of the CIA’s Kryptos sculpture is finally solved, North Koreans busted hiding malware in the Ethereum blockchain, and more.
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Credit to Author: Kim Zetter| Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:01:03 +0000
Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts have concerns.
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Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:40:00 +0000
The malicious app required to make a “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:34:58 +0000
Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:00:00 +0000
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: US government cybersecurity staffers get reassigned to do immigration work, a hack exposes sensitive age-verification data of Discord users, and more.
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