Collaborate Disseminate
People are disabling the “recording light” on Meta’s Ray-Ban smartglasses — “by my count, thousands of people,” says tech journalist Joanna Stern in a new video report:
STERN: “They’re hiring people on Facebook Marketplace to drill out the light… Continue reading Black Market Tinkerers on Facebook Marketplace Offer to Hide ‘Recording Lights’ on Meta Smartglasses
“Texas has dethroned California as the state with the most Fortune 500 companies,” reports the Los Angeles Times:
The Fortune 500 list ranks the largest U.S. companies by revenue. This year, 57 of the top companies are headquartered in Texas, compared… Continue reading New Fortune 500 Rankings: Texas Overtakes California, But Amazon is #1, Beating Walmart
I have a mini PC with fTPM 2.0 support that I want to protect against common theft, but I’ve been trying to understand whether it would be possible to extend that to preventing tampering / Evil Maid type attacks. The more I think about it,… Continue reading Defending against an Evil Maid threat model for a LUKS + TPM + Secure Boot setup
So you happen to have a gramaphone– maybe a big old Victrola/HMV, perhaps a Columbia– regardless of brand, it’s a big, beautiful conversation peice for your living room. It might …read more Continue reading Bluetooth Gramophone Has Surprisingly Contemporary Roots
Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution are the first Xbox Games Studios titles in a while to be confirmed as not coming to other consoles.
The post Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution Will Be Xbox Console Exclusives appeared first on Thu… Continue reading Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution Will Be Xbox Console Exclusives
“Can a company take away something you’ve already paid for?” asks the BBC. “In the world of online video games, some already do.”
Publishers can decide to switch off a game’s servers, often leaving it effectively unplayable. Stop Killing Games, a grow… Continue reading The Gamer-Rights Group Fighting to Make the Industry Stop Killing Games (Servers)
In 2022, DataBreaches wondered whether a group with no name might be the most successful group we had never heard about. Our impression that the group was unique was somewhat confirmed in 2024, when it walked away from a ransom offer of $1.8 million. … Continue reading Silent Ransom Group (SRG): Uncovering DNS Fast Flux Infrastructure
The Windows 11 Field Guide is being updated with the current edition renamed to the Windows 11 Field Guide 2026 edition and covering Windows 11 versions 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1.
The post Welcome to the 2026 Edition of the Windows 11 Field Guide! appeared … Continue reading Welcome to the 2026 Edition of the Windows 11 Field Guide!
Tiffany Wang reports: IBM and AT&T lacked basic security controls and hid nation-state hacking breaches from the government, a former IBM threat intelligence official alleged in a newly unsealed lawsuit. Former IBM Vice President of Threat Intellig… Continue reading Ex-Threat Intel Exec Accuses IBM and AT&T of Hiding Hacks
DataBreaches recently recommended an article by Alberto Daniel Hill about digital security in Argentina, Uruguay, and Mexico. In describing his article, DataBreaches reported: In one section of his report, Hill calls out a company for allegedly manufac… Continue reading Was “ExPresidents” a real hacker or a fabricated account?