An anonymous reader shares a report: When French telecommunications company Altice acquired U.S. cable companies Cablevision and Suddenlink, Chairman Patrick Drahi made a bold statement: Altice USA would rival Comcast and Charter in size, becoming one of the three dominant U.S. cable operators. Fast forward nearly six years, and Altice USA has about 5 million…

Gootloader has expanded its payloads beyond the Gootkit malware family, using Google SEO poisoning to gain traction. …read more Source:: Threatpost

After fans caused “RESPECT TAYLOR SWIFT” to trend on Twitter, the singer speaks out with a tweet of her own. …read more Source:: CNet

Earnings report points to diversion of care during incident for financial loss. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The Unc0ver team has released a tool that works on iOS 11 and later, and exploits a vulnerability that was recently under attack. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Code problem keeps Mercedes, Venturi teams out of qualifying race Swiss Formula E driver Edoardo Mortara ended up in hospital after a software error left him driving into a safety wall at the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in Diriyah, Saudia Arabia, on Saturday.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

AmiMoJo shares a report: Last month, the Linux Mint team published a post on the organization’s official blog about the importance of installing security updates on machines running the Linux distribution. The essence of the post was that a sizeable number of Linux Mint devices was running outdated applications, packages or even an outdated version…

The Distributed Denial of Secrets group claim they have received more than 70 gigabytes of data exfiltrated from social media platform Gab. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Many things came together to crack SolarWinds, but it may all have started with that classic mistake of leaking a lousy password. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Hong Kong-based suspect wanted to create rival startup using pilfered silicon carbide MOSFET blueprints – claim A Chinese businessman has been accused by the US government of trying to steal silicon secrets from General Electric (GE).… …read more Source:: Register