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The policy change aims to encourage businesses to apply patches while reducing the risk of opportunistic attacks

Meaghan McDonald, founder of Salt Legacy, an eco-friendly business that takes old sails from sailboats and turns them into new products, at her sailboat the Spyhop at Fisherman’s Wharf. ADRIAN LAM, TIMES COLONIST Becoming a One Planet region is a mammoth challenge, but one we have to meet unless we prefer to leave it to Mother Nature to do it for us (and to us). But that is not going to be pretty! The key to becoming a One Planet Region is in principle very simple; use and consume a lot les...

Share it On Jan. 14, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative unveiled its 2020 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy, a report detailing which markets are known for ample fake goods. High levels of knockoffs were sold through Amazons foreign domains, including in the U.K., France, Germany and Italy, the report noted. "Holding intellectual property rights violators accountable and ensuring that American innovators and creators have a full and fair opportunity to use and p...

The company delves into the threats to offer defenders a better understanding of what constituted dangerous vulnerabilities in 2020, says Caitlin Condon, manager of software engineering at Rapid7. "There was a pervasive feeling in the information-security community, especially among defenders, that the sky was falling nearly all the time," she says. "It is often very difficult for the people in charge of security to look at all the research materials and all the artifacts — at all the informa...

Preparing for cyberstrike on Russia, US confronts hacking by China

How should we rethink and remake our economy? Happily, various people and organizations are starting to think about this. Last week there was a front-page article in this ­newspaper by Lindsay Kines about the work of Project Zero to create a circular economy, with supportive resolutions adopted by both Victoria and Nanaimo councils. A circular economy stands in contrast to our current linear take-make-waste ­economy, in which we obtain resources, process and use them, then send the waste a...

5G Conspiracy Theories Are Fuelling an Entire Economy of Scammy Gadgets Share Illustration: Elena Scotti,Photo: Getty Images,Photo: Shutterstock To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. It’s an unfortunate truth that snake oil salesmen lurk behind every corner of the internet, waiting f...

Countering cyber proliferation: Zeroing in on Access-as-a-Service Report by Winnona DeSombre, James Shires, JD Work, Robert Morgus, Patrick Howell O’Neill, Luca Allodi, and Trey Herr Executive summary The proliferation of offensive cyber capabilities (OCC)—the combination of tools; vulnerabilities; and skills, including technical, organizational, and individual capacities used to conduct offensive cy...

Hackers can launch attacks through Win10 web fonts. This vulnerability comes from the Windows font renderer, Microsoft DirectWrite.

BankInfoSecurity Compliance Compliance Twitter Get Permission Microsoft has patched a critical vulnerability in Windows that can be exploited by tricking users to visit websites that use a malicious font. The flaw was found by Googles Project Zero bug-hunting team. Hackers can exploit the flaw to wage web-based attacks, Microsoft says. "In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) that contai...