Year: 2021

The first instance of malicious code native to Apple Silicon M1 Macs emerged a month after the release of devices equipped with the company’s in-house CPUs In November, Apple debuted to great acclaim a series of Mac computers sporting its new Apple Silicon M1 chips. The release of the new hardware also grabbed the attention…

Both hacktivists and extortionists have used telephony denial-of-service attacks as a way to further their goals The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a stark warning about consequences that telephony denial-of-service (TDoS) attacks on call centers could have on people’s lives. If launched against critical call centers, TDoS attacks could ultimately prevent callers from…

A bug in the ad blocking component of Brave’s Tor feature caused the browser to leak users’ DNS queries Brave, one of the top-rated browsers for privacy, has fixed a bug in its Private Windows with Tor feature that leaked the .onion URLs for websites visited by the browser’s users, according to a report by an anonymous…