Garbage in, garbage out: Why Ars ignored this week’s massive password breach
When a script kiddie sells 272 million accounts for $1, be very, very skeptical.
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These rare Indian records survived over a century and are now online
Nearly 1,500 recordings from 1900-1940 are now free through the British Museum.
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FAA chief to impatient drone industry: “Sorry we’re so slow”
In olive branch to tech industry, FAA taps Intel CEO Brian Krzanich for new panel.
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Antimalware software works, hackers still trying to exploit 6-year-old bugs
Latest Microsoft security report confirms: There's a lot of malware out there.
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Critical Qualcomm security bug leaves many phones open to attack
Fix still isn't available for most users, and many will probably never get it.
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The clock is ticking
As free upgrade nears its end, Windows 10 passes 300 million users
The one billion user target is still a long way off.
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RTFM
Microsoft unveils new effort to make its developer, IT documentation great again
Docs written in Markdown, with fixes submitted through GitHub.
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Huge number of sites imperiled by critical image-processing vulnerability [Updated]
Attack code exploiting critical ImageMagick vulnerability expected within hours.
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BUH-BYE!
Microsoft to retire support for SHA1 certificates in the next 4 months
The lock icon will be gone by summer; sites using SHA1 to be blocked come January.
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The gravity of the situation
New drone parachute saves falling drones—and the people under them
SafeAir detects free-fall and deploys chute to safely recover consumer drones.
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Aging and bloated OpenSSL is purged of 2 high-severity bugs
Padding oracles and memory corruption threats caused by use of older schemes.
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Marines test autonomous robot-drone teams for future on battlefield
Marine Warfighting Lab tests tag-team squad of robots to hunt enemies.
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That time a bot invaded Thingiverse and created weird new 3D objects
Some called it art, some called it spam—and some thought it might be a new life form.
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Samsung Smart Home flaws let hackers make keys to front door
Don't rely on SmartThings for anything security related, researchers warn.
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Toymaker’s website pushes ransomware that holds visitors’ files hostage
Out-of-date Web app on Maisto.com causes site to attack its visitors.
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Complaints incoming in 3... 2... 1...
Cortana Web searches in Windows 10 will now only be able to open Edge and Bing
Cortana's growing power means she can't use third-party search and browsers.
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Hacking Slack accounts: As easy as searching GitHub
Bot tokens leaked on public sites expose firms' most sensitive business secrets.
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Feature Story
Even at 1.0, Vivaldi closes in on the cure for the common browser
Review: Ultra customization, clever tab management breaks from Chrome, Firefox.
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As US drops “cyber bombs,” ISIS retools its own cyber army
Merger of ISIS-affiliated hacking teams an attempt to build credible threat.
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Western Digital, meet Western Biological
Microsoft experiments with DNA storage: 1,000,000,000 TB in a gram
Reading and writing are a bit of a chore, but it keeps data safe for thousands of years.
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Blame the victim: Report shows fifth of breaches caused by “miscellaneous errors”
Verizon annual report finds breaches happening faster and taking longer to be detected.
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Glowing with embarassment
German nuclear plant’s fuel rod system swarming with old malware
At least the fuel rod system's not connected to the Internet, so nothing happened.
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7 million unsalted MD5 passwords leaked by Minecraft community Lifeboat
Worse still, service recommended "short, but difficult to guess passwords."
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Feature Story
Power tools: Sorting through the crowded specialized database toolbox
With so many choices today, matching database to need isn't getting any easier.
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Hacking group “PLATINUM” used Windows’ own patching system against it
Unknown group attacked South East Asian targets, sometimes for years at a time.
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