Former NSA cyberspy's not-so-secret hobby: Hacking Christmas lights [Mon Dec 30 2024]

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Christmas 1984: The last hurrah for 8-bit home computers

Saturation point, and Nintendo and Sega, were just around the corner

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After a long lunch, user thought a cursor meant their computer was cactus

Reg-reading heroes snacked on their woes and solved problems with extreme speed

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It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks

'The greatest concern is with spear phishing and social engineering'

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How cops taking down LockBit, ALPHV led to RansomHub's meteoric rise

Cut off one head, two more grow back in its place

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Former NSA cyberspy's not-so-secret hobby: Hacking Christmas lights

Rob Joyce explains how it's done

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How Androxgh0st rose from Mozi's ashes to become 'most prevalent malware'

Botnet's operators 'driven by similar interests as that of the Chinese state'

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What do ransomware and Jesus have in common? A birth month and an unwillingness to die

35 years since AIDS first borked a PC and we're still no closer to a solution

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One third of adults can't delete device data

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OpenAI plans to ring in the New Year with a for-profit push

We have altered the deal, pray we don’t alter it any further

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Microsoft adds another problem to the Windows 11 24H2 naughty list

Santa Satya pops one more issue into his sack just in time for Christmas

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Technical issue briefly grounds American Airlines flights across US

Unspecified "vendor technology" to blame for hour-long stop order

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Microsoft Edge takes a victory lap with some high-looking usage stats for 2024

Lots of big numbers, but market share wasn't one of them

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The Art of Auto Scaling: Learn the Latest Best Practices And Avoid Common Mistakes

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Parker Solar Probe sends a "Still Alive" tone back to Earth

This was a triumph

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Naïve Reg hack thinks he can beat Christmas food comas once and for all

One man's plan to ruin his holiday for the better

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