GitLab Sees Huge Traffic Spike After News of Microsoft Buying GitHub

Code hosting service GitLab has seen a massive traffic spike after news broke over the weekend that Microsoft has agreed to acquire GitHub, the world's largest code repository. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/gitlab-sees-huge-traffic-spike-after-news-of-microsoft-buying-github/

Microsoft Purchasing GitHub for 7.5 Billion in Microsoft Stock

Microsoft announced this morning that they are purchasing the source-code repository site GitHub for $7.5 billion USD in Microsoft stock. While rumors have been circulating since Friday, today is the first official confirmation that the acquisition is taking place. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-purchasing-github-for-75-billion-in-microsoft-stock/

Mobile Devs Making the Same Security Mistakes Web Devs Made in the Early 2000s

Mobile app developers are going through the same growing pains that the webdev scene has gone through in the 90s and 2000s when improper input validation led to many security incidents. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mobile-devs-making-the-same-security-mistakes-web-devs-made-in-the-early-2000s/

Feds Ramp Up Investigations Into Online Harassment, Cyberstalking & Threats

On Friday, a New York man was arrested and charged in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York with conducting an extensive cyberstalking and threats campaign. He was charged with one count of cyberstalking and two counts of sending interstate threats. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/feds-ramp-up-investigations-into-online-harassment-cyberstalking-and-threats/

Botnet Authors Don’t Learn Anything From Victims and Secure Databases With Root/Root

Botnet operators can be as clueless about security as their victims, according to Ankit Anubhav Principal Researcher at NewSky Security, a cyber-security company specialized in IoT security. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/botnet-authors-don-t-learn-anything-from-victims-and-secure-databases-with-root-root/

Microsoft Adds Post-Quantum Cryptography to an OpenVPN Fork

Microsoft has recently published an interesting open source project called "PQCrypto-VPN" that implements post-quantum cryptography (PQC) with OpenVPN. This project is being developed by the Microsoft Research Security and Cryptography group as part of their research into post-quantum cryptography. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-adds-post-quantum-cryptography-to-an-openvpn-fork/

Apple Announces macOS 10.14 Mojave With Dark Mode, Dynamic Desktop, Stacks, More

Today at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2018, Apple announced a new version of the macOS operating system —version 10.14, codenamed Mojave. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-announces-macos-1014-mojave-with-dark-mode-dynamic-desktop-stacks-more/

Apple Unveils iOS 12 at the WWDC. Here's What's New

Today at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference today, Apple unveiled the next version of the mobile operating system called iOS 12. This version includes numerous improvements and features and will be available on all phones that are currently able to run iOS 11 [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/apple-unveils-ios-12-at-the-wwdc-heres-whats-new/

Two Months Later, Over 115,000 Drupal Sites Still Vulnerable to Drupalgeddon 2

Two months after the Drupal project released a patch for a highly critical security flaw, there are over 115,000 Drupal sites that have failed to install the fix and are now at the mercy of cyber-criminals. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/two-months-later-over-115-000-drupal-sites-still-vulnerable-to-drupalgeddon-2/

Continental Bans WhatsApp and Snapchat From Work Phones

Car parts manufacturer Continental, one of Germany's biggest companies, has banned the use of the WhatsApp and Snapchat apps on employees' work phones. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/continental-bans-whatsapp-and-snapchat-from-work-phones/

Zip Slip Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Projects Across Multiple Ecosystems

Security researchers have disclosed today details about a critical vulnerability impacting open source coding libraries that handle archived files. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zip-slip-vulnerability-affects-thousands-of-projects-across-multiple-ecosystems/

Intel Announces the Intel Core i7-8086K 5Ghz Limited Edition CPU

At the Computex Tapei conference, Intel has officially announced the upcoming availability of their 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-8086K Limited Edition CPU. This processor is being released to to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Intel's 8086 processor & Intel's first consumer desktop processor that runs out-of-the-box at speeds. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/intel-announces-the-intel-core-i7-8086k-5ghz-limited-edition-cpu/

MyHeritage Genealogy Site Announces Mega Breach Affecting 92 Million Accounts

Family genealogy and DNA testing site MyHeritage announced on Monday a security breach during which an attacker made off with account details for over 92 million MyHeritage users. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/myheritage-genealogy-site-announces-mega-breach-affecting-92-million-accounts/

Firefox Experiment Lets Users Customize Browser's UI Colors

The Mozilla team has rolled out a new Test Pilot experiment that lets users customize some of their browser's user interface element colors. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/firefox-experiment-lets-users-customize-browsers-ui-colors/

ScreenPad - A Touchscreen that Replaces the Touchpad in the Asus Zenbook Pro

At the Computex Tapei conference, Asus announced a new Zenbook Pro laptop that replaces the touchpad with a interactive touch screen called a ScreenPad. ScreenPads are high resolution displays that not only acts as a touchpad, but also allow you to launch applications and display information directly on the display. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/hardware/screenpad-a-touchscreen-that-replaces-the-touchpad-in-the-asus-zenbook-pro/

Washington State Sues Facebook and Google Over Election Ads

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed two lawsuits on Monday against Facebook and Google on the grounds of breaking local campaign finance laws. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/washington-state-sues-facebook-and-google-over-election-ads/

Microsoft to Offer 12TB Virtual Machines in the Near Future

Microsoft has announced a monster single-instance Azure VM that supports up to 12 Terabytes of memory being made available in the near future. This is the largest memory configuration for a single VM in the public cloud and is part of their M-Series of virtual machines. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-offer-12tb-virtual-machines-in-the-near-future/

Years of Police Dashcam Video Lost in Atlanta Ransomware Incident

The Atlanta Police Department has lost years worth of police car dashcam videos following the March ransomware attack that affected most of the city's IT infrastructure. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/years-of-police-dashcam-video-lost-in-atlanta-ransomware-incident/

CrowdStrike to Pay Up to $1 Million Warranty If Its Clients Suffer a Data Breach

US cyber-security firm CrowdStrike announced yesterday a new warranty program for its customers, offering to cover up to $1 million in expenses if a customer protected by its top-tier endpoint protection solution (aka fancy word for antivirus program) suffers a security breach. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crowdstrike-to-pay-up-to-1-million-warranty-if-its-clients-suffer-a-data-breach/

Malware Infection at HR Company Triggers Flurry of Data Breach Notifications

A security breach at one of the world's largest human resources providers, Australian company PageUp, has resulted in tens of companies that were using their services notifying employees and applicants today that their personal data might have been stolen last month. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-infection-at-hr-company-triggers-flurry-of-data-breach-notifications/

Prowli Malware Operation Infected Over 40,000 Servers, Modems, and IoT Devices

Cyber-criminals have managed to assemble a gigantic botnet of over 40,000 infected web servers, modems, and other IoT devices, which they used for cryptocurrency mining, and for redirecting users to malicious sites. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/prowli-malware-operation-infected-over-40-000-servers-modems-and-iot-devices/