A comedian says he prank-called Trump and Jared Kushner patched him through — here is the full transcript of that call

White House President Donald Trump appears to have been on the receiving end of a prank phone call while aboard Air Force One. Comedian John Melendez, host of “The Stuttering John Podcast” and a frequent guest on Howard Stern’s radio show, impersonated Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey during the call. Despite the senator’s […]

Equifax blames breach on a server flaw it should’ve patched

Equifax’s latest update on its unprecedented security breach notifies the public that its investigation has found the cause of the theft. Along with an unnamed security firm (ZDNet and others have reported it’s Mandiant) the company confirmed rumors that attackers exploited a flaw in the Apache Struts Web Framework. That bug, CVE-2017-5638, was revealed in […]

It’s Ridiculous That Nier: Automata Still Hasn’t Been Patched On PC

Nier: Automata came out two months ago on PC. It’s a really good game, and a clear standout during an unusually strong spring. So why the heck is the PC version still loaded with basic bugs and other problems that haven’t been patched? Advertisement I spent last weekend blasting through Nier: Automata on PC. I […]

Microsoft says it already patched ‘Shadow Brokers’ NSA leaks

Yesterday, the mysterious “Shadow Brokers” posted some hacking tools for Windows that were allegedly stolen from the NSA. All of them were at least a few years old, but exploited flaws in several versions of the operating system to move across networks and infect systems. early Saturday morning, Microsoft has responded with a blog post, […]

Microsoft has already patched the NSA’s leaked Windows hacks

Microsoft says it has already patched the Windows exploits released by the Shadow Brokers group. The hacking tools, likely originating from the NSA, were released online yesterday, and Microsoft was able to test and confirm patches are already available for all currently supported versions of Windows. That does mean that older Windows XP or Windows […]