Security professionals will be dealing with the fallout from the Log4j bug for a long time to come, top officials for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Monday. CNET reports: If left unpatched or otherwise unfixed, the major secu…
Google Had Secret Project To ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A National Labor Relations Board ruling sheds light on a highly secret anti-union campaign at Google, that a top executive explicitly described as an initiative to “convince [employees] that unions …
Avira Joins Norton 360 In Adding a Crypto Miner To Its Products
Last week, security researcher Brian Krebs reported that Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. Well, it appears that Avira antivirus, which has b…
Some Carriers Are Blocking iPhone Users From Enabling iCloud Private Relay
Some European carriers, including T-Mobile/Sprint in the United States, are blocking iCloud Private Relay access when connected to cellular data. As 9to5Mac reports, “This feature is designed to give users an additional layer of privacy by ensuring tha…
Chip Shortage Has Canon Telling Customers How To Defeat Its DRM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For years, printers have been encumbered with digital rights management systems that prevent users from buying third-party ink and toner cartridges. Printer companies have claimed that their chip-e…
Judge Orders FDA To Hasten Release of Pfizer Vaccine Docs
A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make public the data it relied on to license Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, imposing a dramatically accelerated schedule that should result in the release of all information w…
Meta Sued For Alleged Role In Extremist-Linked Murder of Federal Guard
The surviving sister of Dave Patrick Underwood, a federal security guard who was killed in a drive-by shooting in 2020, has filed a lawsuit against Meta, the parent organization of Facebook. The suit seeks to hold the company accountable for connecting…
Women’s Periods May Be Late After Coronavirus Vaccination, Study Suggests
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Shortly after coronavirus vaccines were rolled out about a year ago, women started reporting erratic menstrual cycles after receiving the shots. Some said their periods were late. Others repo…
Number of Nasdaq Stocks Down 50% Or More Is Almost At a Record
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: A near-record number of tech stocks have plunged by some 50% in an echo of the dot-com crash. Roughly four in every 10 companies on the Nasdaq Composite Index have seen their market values cut in half…
Research Explores Why Popular Baby Names Come and Go
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed a mathematical model to understand why popular baby names keep on changing, and it “points to a tug-of-war between the need to stand out in the crowd and the need to fit in with the pack,” reports Phy…