January 2021 – Security

Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught

January 31, 2021 by Financial Times

Financial Times

Enlarge (credit: Innocenti | Getty Images) Melvin Capital, the hedge fund that was wrongfooted by retail traders who drove up shares in GameStop and other companies it had bet against, lost 53 percent in January, according to people familiar with the firm’s results. The New York-based hedge fund sustained a…

Multi-layered Outside the Wire is part action thriller, part intimate drama

January 31, 2021 by Jennifer Ouellette

Jennifer Ouellette

Enlarge / Anthony Mackie and Damson Idris must foil a a warlord's plan to launch a network of dormant nuclear weapons in Outside the Wire. (credit: Netflix ) To say that Netflix is leaning into its recent forays into feature film-making is an understatement. The streaming giant announced earlier this…

Poor password security at the British branch of Mensa?

January 31, 2021 by Graham Cluley

Graham Cluley

The website of Mensa - the club for people who have scored highly in an IQ test but who feel their social lives would be improved by hanging out with other people who chose to join a club after scoring highly in an IQ test - is said to have…

An electric race car has lapped Daytona for the first time

January 31, 2021 by Jonathan M. Gitlin

Jonathan M. Gitlin

This is the Hyundai Veloster N ETCR, an electric racing car being developed for a new EV touring car category. [credit: LAT Images ] The annual 24-hour race at Daytona International Speedway in Florida got underway on Saturday afternoon. And this year's race has been a pretty good one so…

A curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics, pt. 4: Looking at the stars

January 31, 2021 by Ars Staff

Ars Staff

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) One of the quietest revolutions of our current century has been the entry of quantum mechanics into our everyday technology. It used to be that quantum effects were confined to physics laboratories and delicate experiments. But modern technology increasingly relies on quantum mechanics…

New study: A zero-emissions US is now pretty cheap

January 31, 2021 by John Timmer

John Timmer

Enlarge (credit: Picture Alliance / Getty Images) In many areas of the United States, installing a wind or solar farm is now cheaper than simply buying fuel for an existing fossil fuel-based generator. And that's dramatically changing the electricity market in the US and requiring a lot of people to…

Why kids matter in the quest to stamp out COVID-19

January 31, 2021 by WIRED

WIRED

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last December, when Caleb Chung, a 12-year-old in Durham, North Carolina, first heard from his dad that he might be eligible for a local clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine, his reaction was a little muted. He was “interested,” he tells me over Zoom. Not excited,…

30 Books That I Will Re-Read For The Rest of My Life

January 31, 2021 by Daniel Miessler

Daniel Miessler

I read 3-6 books a month, and I just went through hundreds of my previous reads to find those that I plan on reading periodically. I thought this would end up being like 10, not 30. These are the books that are either so good, so motivating, or so content-rich…

Google Play bans open-source Matrix client Element, citing “abusive content”

January 30, 2021 by Ron Amadeo

Ron Amadeo

Enlarge The latest app to catch an illogical ban from the Google Play Store is Element, an open-source, end-to-end encrypted messaging client for the federated Matrix chat protocol. Google banned Element late Friday night, a ban which Element said "is due to abusive content somewhere on Matrix." Matrix has millions…

A new $110 light gun for old Duck Hunts: Ars tests an HDTV-friendly option

January 30, 2021 by Sam Machkovech

Sam Machkovech

Enlarge / Duck Hunt without a CRT? It's finally doable, thanks to the Sinden Lightgun. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Over the past decade, we've seen nearly every classic gaming console receive a cute, miniaturized re-release—and the variety has been staggering, from titans like the NES to arcade niche favorites like Neo…

Lawmakers take aim at insidious digital “dark patterns”

January 30, 2021 by WIRED

WIRED

Enlarge (credit: Lobanovgo | Getty Images) In 2010, British designer Harry Brignull coined a handy new term for an everyday annoyance: dark patterns, meaning digital interfaces that subtly manipulate people. It became a term of art used by privacy campaigners and researchers. Now, more than a decade later, the coinage…

Nine Russian adventurers mysteriously froze to death—a new theory explains why

January 30, 2021 by WIRED

WIRED

Enlarge / A view of the tent the adventurers stayed in as the rescuers found it on Feb. 26, 1959. The tent had been cut open from inside, and most of the skiers had fled in socks or barefoot. (credit: Anonymous | USSR investigators) By the time the rescue team…

Google Chrome blocks eight ports against new NAT Slipstreaming attack

January 30, 2021 by Priyanshu Vijayvargiya

Priyanshu Vijayvargiya

Following the discovery of the NAT Slipstreaming 2.0 attack this week, Google says it will block Chrome traffic on ports 69, 137, 161, 1719, 1720, 1723, 6566, and 10080. Google has blocked eight ports within the Chrome web browser to stop a new version of the attack called NAT Slipstreaming,…

FonixCrypter ransomware Shut down and releases the master decryption key

January 30, 2021 by Priyanshu Vijayvargiya

Priyanshu Vijayvargiya

The FonixCrypter team said it was closed and removed their ransomware source code. The cybercriminal team behind FonixCrypter ransomware announced today on Twitter that it has removed the ransomware source code and plans to shut down its operations. As a gesture of interest to past victims, the FonixCrypter team also…

Cybersecurity in Banking Free Webinar

January 30, 2021 by Erdal

Erdal

Join us where industry leaders bring their experience and perspective to discuss Cybersecurity in Banking ; Trends, challenges, regulations, & technologies Don’t miss out on RaCEWebinar, a 2-Day Cybersecurity webinar to be held on 3-4 February. 👉 FREE Registration: Events | HIMAYA Protecting Data in an Era of Increased Cyber…

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