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- “Negative” views of Broadcom driving thousands of VMware migrations, rival says
by Scharon Harding on April 9, 2026 at 7:44 pmWestern Union exec says there were “challenges” working with Broadcom.
- Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites
by Dan Goodin on April 8, 2026 at 8:49 pmAs the US and Israel’s war has ramped up, so too have hacks on US industrial sites.
- Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russia’s military
by Dan Goodin on April 8, 2026 at 11:00 amEnd-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries.
- OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security
by Dan Goodin on April 3, 2026 at 8:30 pmThe viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.
- New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
by Dan Goodin on April 2, 2026 at 5:00 pmGDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach hammer GPU memory in ways that hijack the CPU.
- Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption
by Dan Goodin on March 31, 2026 at 6:25 pmNo, the sky isn’t falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won’t be as expensive as thought.
- Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought
by Dan Goodin on March 25, 2026 at 3:49 pmCompany warns entire industry to move off RSA and EC more quickly.
- Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines
by Dan Goodin on March 24, 2026 at 12:38 pmDevelopment houses: It’s time to check your networks for infections.
- Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack
by Dan Goodin on March 20, 2026 at 8:50 pmAdmins: Sorry to say, but it’s likely a rotate-your-secrets kind of weekend.
- Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program
by Scharon Harding on March 19, 2026 at 9:29 pmBroadcom says the group is misrepresenting market “realities.”
- Federal cyber experts called Microsoft’s cloud a “pile of shit,” approved it anyway
by Renee Dudley, with research by Doris Burke, ProPublica.org on March 18, 2026 at 5:36 pmOne Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its security.
- Researchers disclose vulnerabilities in IP KVMs from four manufacturersby Dan Goodin on March 17, 2026 at 5:07 pm
Internet-exposed devices that give BIOS-level access? What could possibly go wrong?
- Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories
by Dan Goodin on March 13, 2026 at 8:18 pmUnicode that’s invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice.
- The who, what, and why of the attack that has shut down Stryker’s Windows network
by Dan Goodin on March 12, 2026 at 10:18 pmCompany says it doesn’t know how long it will take to restore its Microsoft environment.
- 14,000 routers are infected by malware that’s highly resistant to takedowns
by Dan Goodin on March 11, 2026 at 9:27 pmMost of the devices are made by Asus and are located in the US.
- Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances
by Dan Goodin on March 6, 2026 at 7:41 pmThe long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits.
- Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems
by Scharon Harding on March 5, 2026 at 9:06 pmProblems viewing products and checking out.
- Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation
by John Timmer on March 5, 2026 at 6:41 pmWith no enforcement and questionable economics, it may not make a difference.
- Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal
by Scharon Harding on March 3, 2026 at 10:20 pmAccenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.
- LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy
by Dan Goodin on March 3, 2026 at 12:30 pmPseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.
