| Mac users are getting bombarded by laughably unsophisticated malware
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 Enlarge (credit: Kaspersky Lab) Almost two years have passed since the appearance of Shlayer, a piece of Mac malware that gets installed by tricking targets into installing fake Adobe Flash updates. It usually does so after promising pirated videos, which are also fake. The lure may be trite and easy to spot, but Shlayer continues to be common—so much so that it's the number one threat encountered by users of Kaspersky Labs' antivirus programs for macOS. Since Shalyer first came to light in February 2018, Kaspersky Lab researchers have collected almost 32,000 different variants and identified 143 separate domains operators have used to control infected machines. The malware accounts for 30 percent of all malicious detections generated by the Kaspersky Lab's Mac AV products. Attacks are most common against US users, who account for 31 percent of attacks Kaspersky Lab sees. Germany, with 14 percent, and France and the UK (both with 10 percent) followed. For malware using such a crude and outdated infection ...
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| Sonos CEO: 'legacy' devices will still work after May
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 A few days after Sonos announced it would stop updating some of its oldest products with new features going forward, CEO Patrick Spence has written a note to customers seeking to assuage their fears over what'll happen in May. As we reported original...
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| On the campaign bus with Andrew Yang
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 MSNBC's Katy Tur joined Andrew Yang on day five of his 17-day Iowa bus tour. In an exclusive interview on his campaign bus, Yang told Tur that the mythical Republican-turned-Democratic voter isn't mythical to his campaign. Read more
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| Time check: Examining the Doomsday Clock's move to 100 seconds to midnight
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 Enlarge / The Doomsday Clock reads 100 seconds to midnight, a decision made by The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, during an announcement at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2020. (credit: EVA HAMBACH/AFP via Getty Images) Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists released a statement that the group's Science and Security Board had moved the hands on the symbolic Doomsday Clock forward by 20 seconds to 100 seconds before midnight. Since the advent of the Doomsday Clock—even in the peak years of the Cold War—the clock's minute hand has never before been advanced past the 11:58 mark. In a statement on the change, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists President and CEO Rachel Bronson said: As far as the Bulletin and the Doomsday Clock are concerned, the world has entered into the realm of the two-minute warning, a period when danger is high and the margin for error low. The moment demands attention and new, creative responses. If decision makers continue to fail to act—pretending that ...
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, all countries ( USA, Great Britain, India, Australia, New Zealand ) (sources)
