Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS MALWARE EMOTET DISRUPTED THROUGH GLOBAL ACTION. This is a feel-good moment, when the Command & Control system itself is taken over...

Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Phishing email attacks targeting remote workers on the rise. This isn’t really a surprise since that’s where security is weakest. Malwarebytes hit by hackers...

Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Children’s Screen Time Has Soared in the Pandemic, Alarming Parents and Researchers. Strict parents have it difficult now, lenient parents, well, read the...

Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Telegram feature exposes your precise address to hackers. Telegram, the not-so-secure messaging app, has a vulnerability that exposes users' precise...

Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: First thing’s first, at the start of this year, WTH NerdNews is renamed to TWINN for This Week In Nerd News. The focus is still in 5 mins or less to get up to...

Last one this year... enjoy! Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: SOLARWINDS HACK INFECTED CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING POWER INDUSTRY. At least 15 critical infrastructure firms in the...

Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Dozens of journalists’ iPhones hacked with NSO ‘zero-click’ spyware, says Citizen Lab. I know this is starting to sound like it’s the same song over and over....

Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: Google had an outage for about an hour this morning. I don’t recall having seen all services have a problem at the same time before. Hopefully we’ll hear from...

Citizen Lab finds surveillance tech that can find you with just a phone number. This may generate a new need and want for increased privacy, now that we know how many governments have been using this service to locate citizens, albeit...

Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: This Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes. Just need a visible VIN number and about $300 in hardware as illustrated. Networking giant Belden...

Your weekly top 5 technical and security issues Nerds should pay attention to: How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps. The trouble with free apps. The app makers must make revenue somewhere and selling data is...