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The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plans to find out if artificial intelligence can own what it produces and asks the public to give their opinion on this matter. Does AI have copyright to the content it creates? Survey results may require amendments to copyright law. “As AI becomes …

Los Angeles Prosecutors issued a note to warn tourists against using public charging stations using USB. The talk is about charging stations in hotels, airports, cafes, at public transport stops and so on. According to the authorities, through them can spread a malware. “Travelers should avoid using public USB powercharging …

InfoTrax Systems, a hosting company for MLM applications, has not noticed compromise for several years. Hacking was discovered only after the hacker has spent all disk space – a giant archive file took up almost all the free space on the server. Back in 2016, the company first reported about …

The Iranian cloud provider Arvan Cloud faced a DDoS attack that was conducted through Telegram proxies. Experts warn that the new method can be used to complicate the work of any sites and web services. Problems started on the morning of November 6th and continued for several days. The peak …

CMS Magento developers prepared a patch that fixes a 10-point RCE vulnerability in the e-commerce platform. Users of affected systems are recommended to immediately install the update, as well as check sites for third-party scripts. The update addresses the vulnerability CVE-2019-8144 in Magento Commerce 2.3.1 and 2.3.2, as well as …

Currently, the only publicly available exploit for the BlueKeep vulnerability is the Metasploit module, introduced by developers in September this year. The code for this exploit is based on the proof-of-concept of RiskSense specialist Sean Dillon. Although the exploit for BlueKeep generally works, it has a significant drawback: it can …

Researchers from the SANS Institute (USA) over the past few months have been monitoring the situation with the use of patches that fix the BlueKeep vulnerability in Windows, and with the use fof Shodan recorded the number of vulnerable computers connected to the Network. Experts concluded that the massive warnings …

A major ASP.NET provider, SmarterASP.NET, which serves more than 440,000 customers, was attacked by a ransomware during this weekend. As a result, all data on the client servers was encrypted. Representatives of SmarterASP.NET claim that they are already working on recovering user data, but it is unclear whether the company …

Back in July of this year, information security specialist Bob Gendler, specializing in Apple device issues, discovered that Apple Mail on macOS stores encrypted messages in clear text in the snippets.db database. In fact, this vulnerability allows reading encrypted Apple Mail letters on macOS. As Gendler explains on his blog, …

Security researchers from Purdue and Iowa Universities (USA) discovered vulnerabilities in several popular Android phones, exploiting which an attacker through the accessories could gain access to the firmware of the radio module (baseband) and thus track their users. Criminals can trick vulnerable phones into revealing unique identifiers, such as IMEI …