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In Argentina, police detained famous security researcher Javier Smaldone and ransacked his apartment. Javier Smaldone is suspected of hacking into government computer systems and stealing confidential documents, but the researcher himself has a different theory. “Smaldone claimed the entire affair was a witch-hunt, describing his arrest and raid as “political …

Earlier this week, a wave of panic messages swept through the media around the world that Apple was transmitting traffic data from Safari users to the Chinese company Tencent. Apple representatives made a statement and explained that nothing bad is happening, it’s all about the recent Safe Browsing update. “Apple …

39-year-old password of the famous Ken Thompson, who participated in the creation of the C programming language and was so-called UNIX dad, was finally hacked. The talk is about the file “/ etc / passwd” found in 2014 in the public version tree of BSD 3, which contains hashed passwords …

A Mozilla-sponsored security audit revealed a 7-year-old critical vulnerability in the iTerm2 terminal emulator application for macOS. iTerm2 is one of the most popular terminal emulators in the world, and frequently used by developers. MOSS selected iTerm2 for a security audit because it processes untrusted data and it is widely …

Amid disappointing news about climate change on the planet and the development of the nuclear potential of some countries, the end of human civilization does not seem so unlikely. Therefore, the development of a special Collapse OS for the post-apocalyptic world does not seem to be a crazy idea. Already …

Linus Torvalds and other key Linux kernel developers are not particularly concerned about Microsoft, which IT experts are trying to control Linux. According to Torvalds, the very essence of Linux with its open source code and GPL2 license will not allow a third-party company to influence it. “All this confrontation …

The cybercriminal group, presumably with the Iranian government standing behind them, tried to interfere in the election campaign of US President Donald Trump. Iranian hackers are going to attack the President’s campaign. Microsoft experts reported about malicious actions. Sources familiar with the situation said that the operation against attackers was …

For a while has been circulating information that the Windows operating system, which is one of the most well-known Microsoft products, is no longer a priority business for the company. At the beginning of 2018, was carried out a reorganization, which implied the division of the direction of Windows into …

Cyber-cracker with the pseudonym Gnosticplayers reported about hacking several applications of the largest American online game developer Zynga Inc. The hacker announced the theft of data from 218 million users. The leak affected all Android and iOS users who installed the Words With Friends puzzle game and registered in it …

Linux developers have added a kernel isolation module to the operating system that eliminates user-level access to key parts of the code. Linux experts want to protect the kernel from user processes. Discussions about the need for such a function were conducted for several years, and the creators of the …