Ericsson, Apple end legal dispute over patent
Ericsson and Apple have entered into a multi-year global patent licensing agreement. The agreement includes a cross-license for patented cellular standard-essential technologies as well as other patent rights. The two companies first sued each other in 2015, accusing each other of patent infringement and licensing disputes involving 2G, 3G, and 4G technologies. While the initial […]
PCs with air gaps are vulnerable to data theft due to power supply radiation
Mordechai Guri, a security researcher known for inventing inventive ways to siphon data from computers that aren’t connected to the internet, has discovered a new exploit that can exfiltrate data to a nearby smartphone. It is known as COVID-bit, and it uses electromagnetic waves to transmit data from air-gapped systems that are isolated from the […]
Claroty discovers method to bypass vendors’ Web Application Firewalls (WAF)
Claroty experts created a generic method for circumventing a variety of leading manufacturers’ web application firewalls (WAF). The technique, developed by Claroty’s threat research team Team82, is generic, which means it can be used against web application firewalls (WAFs) from various vendors. The technique has been successfully tested against products from Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, […]
Pwn2Own Toronto 2022, Hackers Earn big for 63 unique zero-day exploits
Participants in the Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 hacking competition earned $400,000 on the first day, and a total of $989,750 on the final day for new exploits targeting phones, printers, routers, and NAS devices. 26 teams and security researchers targeted devices in the categories of mobile phones, home automation hubs, printers, wireless routers, network-attached storage, and […]
Cole & Van Note sues Rackspace for email outage
Scott Cole, class action veteran and founder of Cole & Van Note in California, recently announced the filing of a class action lawsuit against Rackspace Technology, Inc. for carelessness and linked infringements arising from the email hosting provider’s recent high-profile data breach. Rackspace Technology previously announced on Tuesday that the “security incident” that caused a […]
Elton John quits Twitter
Following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, Elton John has announced his departure. He makes reference to the company’s new misinformation policy. Sir Elton announced his departure from the platform because one of the changes will allow “misinformation to flourish unchecked.” The Rocket Man singer wrote in what could be his final tweet: All my life […]