A week ago today, hackers unleashed the first known attack using the vulnerability known as BlueKeep, a long-feared development that in practice turned out to be relatively benign. For now, anyway! But don't worry, plenty of other things still went wrong. Like, say, the revelation that you can hack Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri with lasers.
Take the two former Twitter employees who allegedly used their insider access to spy on behalf of Saudi Arabia—a stark reminder of how ill prepared even the biggest companies are to protect consumer data from the people who work there. Or the spate of zombie text messages from February that hit people's phones Thursday with no explanation, the result of a third-party server that had failed on February 14 and was reactivated November 7. All the messages stranded in that queue finally got sent.
There was some good news, though, or at least hints of it. Google has signed on with a consortium of companies that want to provide open source firmware for more secure processors. And the search giant has also enlisted the help of three outside cybersecurity firms to vet Android apps for malware before they hit the Play Store.
We looked at the new tools that campaigns have to protect themselves against hackers—and why they still might fall short. To celebrate the ..
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