The White House is sounding the alarm on the risk that private companies face of Kremlin-backed cyberattacks. “Warnings based on evolving intelligence that the Russian Government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks,” President Biden said in a statement on Monday. “It’s part of Russia’s playbook.” Anne Neuberger, Biden’s deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, added that the administration is witnessing
A hacking group called LAPSUS$ claimed late Monday to have breached systems belonging to Okta, a company that builds services to securely log people in to apps and networks. Okta says it’s used by 15,000 global brands, listing customers including Siemens, Hitachi, Moody’s, and Major League Baseball. The shadowy organization released screenshots that appeared to show access to Okta internal systems, including an internal ticketing system and a Slack chat, Reuters reports. But in an
It has been 11 years since the worlds of consumer electronics and porn have shared the spotlight in Las Vegas. But in 2023, the unlikely duo will be reunited. The 2023 Adult Entertainment Expo will take place at the Resorts World Casino from January 4-7, meaning the show will once again run during the same week as the Consumer Electronics Show (which is slated for Jan. 5-8). It’s the latest chapter in an entangled saga between the two industries, which have had an unusual relationship for
At San Jose’s Norman Y. Mineta International Airport, travelers are checking in for Alaska Airlines flights using iPad Pros—and they might not even realize it. These particular iPads aren’t anyone’s personal devices. Ensconced in tabletop stands in Alaska’s lobby area, they’re replacements for the conventional self-check-in kiosks that have been commonplace in airport terminals for the past couple of decades. The iPad Pro check-in stations are part of a
Robert Reich is getting TikTok famous. Closing in on half a million followers, the 75-year-old Clinton-era Labor secretary and current Berkeley professor is an unlikely figure on the short-attention-span video platform, which is designed for younger users and thrives on trends, memes, inside jokes, and dance moves du jour. And that’s part of the reason it works for Reich. He embraces the platform and all its quirks. He dances. He clowns. He duets with other TikTok-ers. The effect is
On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being able to operate equipment with batteries disconnected. During the evenings, the aurora borealis, more commonly known as the northern lights, could be seen as far south as Colombia. Typically, these lights are only visible at higher latitudes, in northern Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia. What the wor
In my never-ending search for efficiency, I realized that if I could stop constantly checking my phone all morning, I could save quite a bit of time. More important: I could stop getting distracted by all the other stuff on my phone. And there sat the Amazon Echo Dot in my kitchen. Until then, it had been a timer-setting, music-playing, two-trick pony. But I had a sneaking suspicion it could pull more weight around the Aamoth household. So as I thought about all the stuff I check—my calen
A Lviv-based team of Ukrainian software engineers have developed an online game called “Play for Ukraine” that crowdsources and gamifies participation in Dedicated Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks against selected Russian government and media websites. The game, which is based on the popular numerical puzzle game “2048,” is designed such that each move a player makes helps in a DDOS attack on a targeted web server. The game launched on February 28, according to the de
In the last decade, Russia has built up an effective strategy for controlling information about the Kremlin within the country’s own borders and for sowing dissent in democracies around the world. As Vladimir Putin’s devastation of Ukraine wears on, Russia’s credibility has been severely diminished, forcing the country to rethink how it disseminates propaganda—a shift that could make Russian disinformation harder to combat. “The top line is, while Russia
In January, dressed in a crisp white shirt and slacks, with a tidy, consciously androgynous hairstyle, Christina Ku, a director at NTT Docomo Ventures, the Silicon Valley investment arm of the Japanese telecom conglomerate Docomo, gestured to the whiteboard behind her as she took her team through a breakdown of her investments and exits. Ku spoke confidently and authoritatively, unfazed when one colleague flickered out of existence, and two more arrived outfitted in Colonel Sanders-esque suits.