IT team forced to camp in office after boss’s side-project Y2K screensaver fails
TL;DR A multinational alcohol company's UK IT staff spent days onsite over the Y2K rollover after a custom countdown screensaver—created…
When a device driver confronts and exposes the kernel’s assumptions
TL;DR The available source is limited to a headline and a short excerpt; the piece appears to discuss a device…
Free Software Foundation Gets Nearly $900K in Anonymous Monero Gifts
TL;DR The Free Software Foundation announced two anonymous donations made in Monero that together total about $900,000. The gifts arrived…
Mark Karpèlès Details Mt. Gox Collapse, 2015 Detention and New Projects
TL;DR Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpèlès recounted the exchange’s early failures, the 2014 loss of hundreds of thousands of…
About 1,000 systems hit in ransomware attack on Romanian water agency
TL;DR Romania's National Administration 'Romanian Waters' reported roughly 1,000 compromised systems after a ransomware incident that began Dec. 20. Core…
Poisoned npm WhatsApp API package steals messages, credentials and accounts
TL;DR A malicious npm package called lotusbail, downloaded over 56,000 times and available for roughly six months, impersonated a WhatsApp…
MPs accuse UK government of neglecting surge in mobile phone thefts
TL;DR MPs say the UK government has failed to follow up on expert recommendations to curb rising mobile phone thefts,…