Free trade flaws fueled Trump’s rise in 2016 — and the problems remain, top economist says

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks after attending a wake for New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer Jonathan Diller, who was shot and killed while making a routine traffic stop on March 25 in the Far Rockaway section of Queens, in Massapequa Park, New York, U.S., March 28, 2024.  Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Decades … Read more

How Kate Middleton’s Photo Controversy Exposes Royal Flaws

For weeks, rumors have abounded over the whereabouts and overall health of Kate Middleton (more formally known as Catherine, Princess of Wales), who until the publication of a recent paparazzi photo hadn’t been seen in public since attending a Christmas Day church service with family. Kensington Palace—which represents the Prince and Princess of Wales—announced that … Read more

Hackers are exploiting ConnectWise flaws to deploy LockBit ransomware, security experts warn

Security experts are warning that a pair of high-risk flaws in a popular remote access tool are being exploited by hackers to deploy LockBit ransomware — days after authorities announced that they had disrupted the notorious Russia-linked cybercrime gang. Researchers at cybersecurity companies Huntress and Sophos told TechCrunch on Thursday that both had observed LockBit … Read more

The Israel-Hamas War Reveals the Major Flaws of Social Media

Today, the images and videos circulating, especially across social media, are offering a very poor representation of the truth of what happened on Oct. 7 in Israel. This is partly due to the Israeli government’s understandable efforts to protect the privacy and dignity of the victims, and abstaining from publishing evidence of the atrocities committed … Read more

Millions of Old Bitcoin Wallets Have Critical Security Flaws, Experts Say

Photo: Lukas Gojda / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) Bitcoin wallets older than 2016 could have a vulnerability that puts over $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency at risk, according to a report in the Washington Post. Why Should Crypto Currencies be Called Securities? | Gizmodo Interview According to Unciphered, a cryptocurrency recovery company, an untold number of crypto … Read more

Tank battles in Ukraine are putting several generations of ‘crappy Russian armored vehicles’ and their flaws on display

Destroyed Russian tanks on display in Kyiv in August.Yevhenii Zavhorodnii/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images Thousands of tanks have been destroyed in Ukraine since Russia attacked last year. Most of the tanks each side is using were designed and built during the Cold War. Many of the vulnerabilities revealed in those tanks’ decades of service … Read more

Apple, Microsoft, and Google Just Fixed Multiple Zero-Day Flaws

Earlier in the month, Google fixed another zero-day flaw, a heap buffer overflow issue initially tracked as CVE-2023-4863, which it thought impacted only the Chrome browser. But two weeks after fixing the issue, researchers discovered it was worse than they thought, affecting the widely-used libwebp image library for rendering images in the WebP format. Now … Read more

Apple fixes software program flaws behind hacks that Russia blamed on the USA

Touch upon this storyComment Apple on Wednesday mentioned it had mounted two newly found safety flaws in its iPhones and iPads that had been used to hack 1000’s of units in Russia, underscoring the seriousness of a marketing campaign that Russian intelligence blamed on the USA. Apple credited the invention of the issues to researchers … Read more