General Cyber News via Ars Technica Risk Assessment

Babuk demands $4 million, Metropolitan Police Department offers $100,000.
Publish Date: 5/11/2021
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Counterfeit products sent to Amazon warehouses are destroyed to prevent resale.
Publish Date: 5/10/2021
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Successful jailbreak increases existing AirTag security and privacy concerns.
Publish Date: 5/10/2021
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The attack paralyzed a pipeline that moves 2.5 million barrels per day.
Publish Date: 5/10/2021
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Emails entered into Epic Games lawsuit show execs contradicting Apple talking points.
Publish Date: 5/8/2021
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Home-Internet prices rose four times faster than inflation in Trump era.
Publish Date: 5/7/2021
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Exposed systems paved way for researchers to access code, messages, passwords, and more.
Publish Date: 5/6/2021
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Higher-end devices made by Google, Samsung, LG, Xiaomi, and OnePlus are affected.
Publish Date: 5/6/2021
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Dell firmware update driver 2.3 can be exploited to gain kernel-level privilege.
Publish Date: 5/5/2021
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Follows Twitter's effort to make you read the news before you share it.
Publish Date: 5/5/2021
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Faulty API let anyone grab users’ private data, including weight and gender.
Publish Date: 5/5/2021
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The "only limitation is high density of users in urban areas," Musk said.
Publish Date: 5/5/2021
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Jury finds ex-Netflix VP guilty of awarding tech contracts in exchange for bribes.
Publish Date: 5/4/2021
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A new transient execution variant is the first exploit micro-ops caches.
Publish Date: 5/4/2021
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Frontier plans 3 million new fiber lines—but 8M others would be stuck on copper.
Publish Date: 5/4/2021
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Webkit flaws in just-released iOS 14.5 lets attackers execute malicious code.
Publish Date: 5/3/2021
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Apollo to buy Yahoo/AOL for $5B, didn't have much competition from other bidders.
Publish Date: 5/3/2021
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Heavyweight task force proposes framework to tackle a major cybersecurity problem.
Publish Date: 5/1/2021
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A transmission factory shows how AI may gradually creep into industrial processes
Publish Date: 5/1/2021
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Zero-day vulnerability under attack has a severity rating of 10 out of 10.
Publish Date: 4/30/2021
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