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No, The People Didn’t Vote For This

February 10, 2025

A stunning 54% of Americans now believe we’re in a Constitutional crisis, according to recent YouGov polling. They’re right. As a tech billionaire effectively dismantles federal agencies without Congressional authority…

Technology

CenturyLink nightmares: Users keep asking Ars for help with multi-month outages

February 10, 2025

CenturyLink hasn’t broken its annoying habit of leaving customers without service for weeks or months and repeatedly failing to show up for repair appointments. We’ve written about CenturyLink’s failure to…

Cybersecurity

⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools and Tips [10 February]

February 10, 2025

In cybersecurity, the smallest crack can lead to the biggest breaches. A leaked encryption key, an unpatched software bug, or an abandoned cloud storage bucket—each one seems minor until it…

Cybersecurity

Don’t Overlook These 6 Critical Okta Security Configurations

February 10, 2025

Given Okta’s role as a critical part of identity infrastructure, strengthening Okta security is essential. This article covers six key Okta security settings that provide a strong starting point, along…

Cybersecurity

DragonRank Exploits IIS Servers with BadIIS Malware for SEO Fraud and Gambling Redirects

February 10, 2025

Threat actors have been observed targeting Internet Information Services (IIS) servers in Asia as part of a search engine optimization (SEO) manipulation campaign designed to install BadIIS malware. “It is…

Cybersecurity

Zimbra Releases Security Updates for SQL Injection, Stored XSS, and SSRF Vulnerabilities

February 10, 2025

Zimbra has released software updates to address critical security flaws in its Collaboration software that, if successfully exploited, could result in information disclosure under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as…

Cybersecurity

XE Hacker Group Exploits VeraCore Zero-Day to Deploy Persistent Web Shells

February 10, 2025

Threat actors have been observed exploiting multiple security flaws in various software products, including Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX and Advantive VeraCore, to drop reverse shells and web shells,…

Technology

Punch-Out’s Mike Tyson has been defeated in under two minutes for the first time

February 9, 2025

Since Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out was first released on the NES in 1987, millions of players have undertaken millions more digital matches against one of the hardest video game bosses ever,…

Technology

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

February 9, 2025

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone with a comment about the assault on the idea that laws have any meaning at all:…

Technology

Donkey Kong’s famed kill screen has been cleared for the first time

February 9, 2025

If you watched the 2007 documentary King of Kong or followed the controversy surrounding score-chaser Billy Mitchell, you know all about Donkey Kong‘s famous kill screen. For over four decades,…

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