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Zero-click iMessage zero-day used to hack the iPhones of 36 journalists

21 December 2020
in: Technology

Skip to main content EnlargeThree dozen journalists had their iPhones hacked in July and August using what at the time was an iMessage zero-day exploit that didn’t require the victims to take any action to be infected, researchers said.
The exploit ..

AT&T reportedly struggling to sell DirecTV at anything but a huge loss

21 December 2020
in: Technology

Skip to main content Enlarge / AT&T corporate offices on November 10, 2020 in El Segundo, California. AT&T is disappointed in the $15 billion offers it has received for DirecTV and has “told prospective bidders it may cancel the auction altogether if..

How an obscure British PC maker invented ARM and changed the world

20 December 2020
in: Technology

Skip to main content Enlarge Let's be honest: 2020 sucks. So much of this year has been a relentless slog of bad news and miserable events that it's been hard to keep up. Yet most of us have kept up, and the way most of us do so is with the..

Russia’s hacking frenzy is a reckoning

20 December 2020
in: Technology

Skip to main content Enlarge / The attack hit multiple US agencies—and a full assessment of the damage may still be months away.Last week, several major United States government agencies—including the Departments of Homeland Security, Commerce, Treas..

Kazakhstan spies on citizens’ HTTPS traffic; browser-makers fight back

19 December 2020
in: Technology

Skip to main content EnlargeGoogle, Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft said they’re joining forces to stop Kazakhstan’s government from decrypting and reading HTTPS-encrypted traffic sent between its citizens and overseas social media sites.
All four of ..