Biz & IT – Ars Technica

• DDoSers are abusing Microsoft RDP to make attacks more powerful 23.1.2021
  DDoS amplification attacks have abused all kinds of legit services. Now, it's Windows.
• This site posted every face from Parler’s Capitol Hill insurrection videos 23.1.2021
  Faces of the Riot used open source software to detect, extract, and deduplicate every face.
• Home alarm tech backdoored security cameras to spy on customers having sex 22.1.2021
  Employee for ADT accessed ~200 customer cams on more than 9,600 occasions.
• Chrome and Edge want to help with that password problem of yours 22.1.2021
  The line between browsers and password managers is blurring.
• Phishing scam had all the bells and whistles—except for one 21.1.2021
  A reminder that stuff published on the Internet gets published on the Internet.
• Ars online IT roundtable: What’s the future of the data center? 21.1.2021
  Join Sean Gallagher, Dell's Ivan Nekrasov, and me today, January 21, at 3:15pm Eastern!
• Ars Technicast special edition, part 1: The Internet of Things goes to war 21.1.2021
  Ars presents a two-part limited edition podcast on the "connected battlespace."
• Security firm Malwarebytes was infected by same hackers who hit SolarWinds 20.1.2021
  Group backed by a nation-state rifles through company's email servers.
• Hackers alter stolen regulatory data to sow mistrust in COVID-19 vaccine 15.1.2021
  Post titled “Astonishing fraud! Evil Pfffizer! Fake vaccines!” found on the Dark Web.
• How law enforcement gets around your smartphone’s encryption 15.1.2021
  Openings provided by iOS and Android security are there for those with the right tools.