Nathan Ord
Nathan Ord is a tech nerd through and through. Following any technology, from home and business applications to VR, anything is up his alley. Starting out as the family repair guy and local "tech expert" for those around him, he helped out wherever he could. Nathan came aboard HotHardware in 2020 and continuously enjoys what he does. In his free time, he enjoys volunteering, playing video games, and just relaxing with friends.
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This year, international fashion brand Forever 21, which has over 540 store locations, suffered a data breach affecting over 500,000 persons. As of late, a breach notice has been shared with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, and notices to affected parties will likely be delivered shortly.
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Earlier this month, researchers at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab detected and responded to an unknown cybersecurity incident on its network. While security teams were reportedly quick to isolate the incursion, it shuttered the lab’s astronomical observatory operations and shines a spotlight on the...
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Over the past year, as tensions have intensified with China over the South China Sea and Taiwan, the United States has begun to focus on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influenced businesses and organizations operating or providing services in the US. Perhaps the most prevalent example of this is TikTok, and the concern...
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The FBI and Justice Department recently announced a “multinational operation to disrupt and dismantle the malware and botnet known as Qakbot.” In what the authorities are calling one of the largest U.S.-led disruption operations, Qakbot infrastructure was accessed to tear down the network from the inside.
Qakbot...
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Several energy providers are now asking New England customers to monitor their accounts for unusual activity or beware of potential scams following a third-party data breach earlier this month.
Earlier this morning, HotHardware was made aware that an email had gone out from Eversource, a residential energy provider...
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You may have seen protesters on social media and in the news sitting on roadways to block traffic, spraying buildings with paint, and now “coning” self-driving vehicles. This newest form of protest highlights not only how easy it is to disrupt a highly complex machine but also what kind of trouble these self-driving...
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Between porch pirates and funny home videos, home security cameras are great for capturing those precise, important moments, whether it's a neighbor snagging a package, your mother-in-law being chased by a wild animal, or a UFO in the sky. With Amazon’s ongoing sale on Blink home security products, you can catch all...
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School is back in session, or very soon if it's not in your area, and with it comes the need for new technology to do research, write essays, complete homework and so on. As such, Best Buy has some solid deals on a variety of laptops that will suit the needs of students of any age.
Kicking things off, we have the...
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In the past few months, the rumor mill regarding the upcoming iPhone 15 lineup has been chugging along with rumblings of new features and specs. One thing that hasn’t quite settled in, though, is what colors the new devices are going to come in. That may be changing with new leaks showing a departure from one of the...
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From 2021 to 2022, the LAPSUS$ hacking group went on a PWNing spree, popping boxes at companies such as NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsoft, and Rockstar. Since then, though, the teens behind the group have been arrested, likely partly due to the group's overall poor operational security. Regardless, it has been over a year...
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XLoader, an infostealer and botnet malware-as-a-service solution, has been around since 2015, taking on many forms that have been tracked by researchers such as those at SentinelOne. Most recently, though, the security company has found that XLoader has returned as a new malware strain masquerading as an app called...
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It is generally known that Internet of Things (IoT) devices are not the most secure things in the world. Researchers from Italy and the United Kingdom have proven this once more after discovering four vulnerabilities in Amazon Italy’s best-selling smart light bulb, the TP-Link Tapo L530E.
The first and most severe...
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Just under a year ago, EVGA cut ties with NVIDIA and initiated its exit from the graphics card market together, ending an approximately 24-year run in the market. In that time, the company had some GPU gems, especially those made in collaboration with Vince “Kingpin” Lucido. As a memento of that, Lucido sent out some...
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This month, researchers at Zimperium’s zLab reported on a means by which thousands of Android malware samples were evading detection and analysis. It is claimed that over three thousand samples use this technique, which involves tampering with the field that establishes what compression method is used for the...
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Twenty-eight years ago, Microsoft was faced with the rapid expansion and commercialization of the Internet. Then-CEO Bill Gates saw this change coming and sent out an internal memo calling this phenomenon “The Internet Tidal Wave.” Now, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella believes that artificial intelligence might be on the...
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Cybersecurity incidents are constantly on the rise, with many threat actors launching targeted or widespread opportunistic attacks. In what effectively amounts to cyberterrorism, these acts are not limited to large companies and organizations as one might think, but extend to things like high-profile sporting events...
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Minecraft players and server operators are facing new security risks following the discovery of a vulnerability in certain mods and subsequent mod packs that allows remote code execution if exploited. Patches are rolling out and vulnerability management is actively happening, but players could still be at risk if...
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Earlier this week, SpaceX had anticipated launching two rockets back-to-back just 44 minutes apart, which would set the record for the fastest time between launches. However, the SpaceX Falcon Heavy that was second in line had some delays that pushed its launch back into the evening. Despite this setback, the events...
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In recent days and weeks, Call of Duty has seen an uptick in population since the online servers were fixed up, allowing players to return to their old haunts and have some fun. However, with this uptick in activity, cheaters and hackers are looking to ruin the fun and nostalgia for CoD players. As it turns out, they...
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Radio communications are the backbone of much of day-to-day life, but by and large, we routinely take it for granted. This is also aided by the fact that there is much secrecy surrounding this technology, but that did not deter Dutch researchers who discovered vulnerabilities and an intentional backdoor in the...
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Whether mowing the lawn or grilling and chilling at a backyard barbeque, music almost always enhances the experience. You can only do that with stellar speakers or excellent earbuds, which thanksfully, are currently discounted on Amazon.
Starting off, we have the Bose SoundLink Revolve+ ii, a portable speaker...
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Earlier this month, researchers from Palo Alto’s Unit 42 discovered a peer-to-peer worm dubbed P2PInfect targeting Redis installations, an open-source database application used in cloud environments. While only 934 of the publicly communicating 307,000 unique Redis systems may be vulnerable, the worm may knock on the...
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