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Spreadsheets, Slack messages, and files linked to an alleged group of North Korean IT workers expose their meticulous job-planning and targeting—and the constant surveillance they're under.

 

A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is Black Hat  Four countries have now tested anti-satellite missiles (the US, China, Russia, and India), but it's much easier and cheaper just to hack them.…

 

Germany’s top court ruled police can use spyware only for crimes punishable by at least three years in prison. Germany’s top court ruled that police may only use spyware to monitor devices in cases involving crimes with a maximum sentence of at least three years. “The interference with both the fundamental right protecting IT-systems and Art. 10(1) of […]

 

We asked IBM Quantum’s director about the reality of the current state of quantum computing.

 

In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable TV adapter. It was excessively cheap, and even more mysteriously, …read more

 

At the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas on Friday, Nakasone tried to thread the needle in a politically fraught moment while hinting at major changes for the tech community around the corner.

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HTTP is not simple (daniel.haxx.se)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by lemmydev2 to c/pulse_of_truth
 

After personally having devoted soon three decades on writing client-side code doing HTTP and having been involved in the IETF on all the HTTP specs produced since 2008 or so, I think I am in a decent position to give a more expanded view on it. HTTP is not a simple protocol. Far from it. Even if we presume that people actually mean HTTP/1 when they say that.

 

A whole criminal ecosystem revolves around scamming users out of their cryptocurrency assets, but malicious — or vulnerable — smart contracts could be used against businesses as well.

 

Tells The Reg China's ability to p0wn Redmond's wares 'gives me a political aneurysm' Comment  Roger Cressey served two US presidents as a senior cybersecurity and counter-terrorism advisor and currently worries he'll experience a "political aneurysm" due to Microsoft's many security messes.…

 

Americans aged 60 and older lost a staggering $700 million to online scams in 2024, marking a sharp rise in fraud targeting seniors, according to the Federal Trade Commission. [...]

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