The quick pivot to the cloud for remote support also ushered in risks. …read more Source:: DarkReading

For the past few years, Google has been encouraging developers to write Android apps with Kotlin. The underlying OS still uses C and C++, though Google today announced Android Open Source Project (AOSP) support for Rust. From a report: This is part of Google’s work to address memory safety bugs in the operating system: “We…

Recent Trickbot campaigns and at least three common banking Trojans all attempt to infect systems using malicious macros in Microsoft Office documents created using EtterSilent. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Owning a digital token tied to artwork or song doesn’t mean you actually own the art or the song — but those tokens are still going for a small fortune. …read more Source:: CNet

CVE-2021-21982 affects a platform designed to secure private clouds, and the virtual servers and workloads that they contain. …read more Source:: Threatpost

A massive operation offers access to hacked camera feeds in bedrooms and at hotels. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The idea of monetizing DDoS attacks dates back to the 1990s. But the rise of DDoS-for-hire services and cryptocurrencies has radically changed the landscape. …read more Source:: DarkReading

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Dave Levy and Nikos Kanelopoulos are trying to beat the algorithm. The two DoorDash drivers — Dashers, as the company calls them — are trying to persuade their peers to turn down the lowest-paying deliveries so the automated system for matching jobs with drivers will respond by…

A boycott is on the table, says a US State Department spokesperson, though no final decision has been reached. …read more Source:: CNet

Cosmic rays are causing an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 malfunctions in domestic network communication devices in Japan every year, a Japanese telecom giant found recently. From a report: Most so-called “soft errors,” or temporary malfunctions, in the network hardware of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. are automatically corrected via safety devices, but experts said in…