Portuguese media group Impresa has been struck by a ransomware attack over the New Year’s holiday, taking its websites and online streaming services offline.  Impresa Sociedade Gstr D Prtcps Socsl SA, Portugal’s largest media company, is the owner of the SIC television channels and the Expresso weekly newspaper. First reported today by The Record, the attack is ...

Apple Inc. will release a range of new products in the year ahead, including updated AirPod earphones, Macs and iPhones with hole-punch displays, according to some of the best-known Apple watchers. Leading the pack is famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. His first prediction of the year is the latest AirPods release. Kuo predicts that Apple ...

Microsoft Corp. has released an emergency fix for a bug that prevented on-premises Exchange servers from sending emails. According to a blog post from the Exchange team, the bug struck on Jan. 1 and related to a date-check feature with the change to the year. The team emphasized that it was not a failure of the ...

The Vice Society ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for an attack on a U.K. Spar wholesaler earlier this month and is being linked to an attack on a Norwegian newspaper this week. The first attack targeted Spar wholesaler James Hall & Co. on Dec. 6, resulting in Spar stores being unable to take card payments at ...

Shares of Tesla Inc. dropped today after the company issued a voluntary recall for hundreds of thousands of defective vehicles. The recall affects 356,309 2017-220 Model 3s and 110,009 2014-2021 Model S vehicles. The issues involve faulty latching of the vehicle’s hood and and the rear-view camera failing to display. With the Model S, the ...

An iPhone manufacturing plant in India run by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., better known as Foxconn, has been temporarily shut down following complaints of substandard living and working conditions. The workers at the factory in Tamil Nadu went on strike on Dec. 17 after 250 of the workers were sickened by what they ...

The South Korean government has asked Apple Inc. and Google LLC to remove “Play to Earn” games from their respective stores and to block the release of new ones. So-called “P2E” gaming involves players earning cryptocurrency rewards and nonfungible tokens of NFTs from playing the games. According to Play to Earn Online Magazine, the model ...

State employees in West Virginia will be paid on time this week, despite the state’s payroll processing being affected by the ransomware attack on workflow management solutions provider Kronos Inc. disclosed on Dec. 13. Local media reports that state payroll administrators went to “extraordinary lengths” during the Christmas week to ensure that employees would be paid ...

The Apache Software Foundation has released a new patch for Log4j, the Java-based logging utility that has seen vulnerabilities targeted en masse by hackers since Dec. 13. Log4j 2.17.1, the fifth update this month, addresses a new remote code execution vulnerability found in 2.17.0. CVE-2021-44832 allows an attacker with permission to modify the logging configuration ...

Some users of password manager LastPass are reporting that their master passwords have been compromised after receiving emails that someone had tried to access their accounts from unknown locations. News of the compromise first emerged Tuesday on social media, including Twitter Inc., Reddit Inc. and Y Combinator’s Hacker News. The threads tell a similar tale: ...