Monthly Archives: August 2022

A ‘high severity’ TikTok vulnerability allowed one-click account hijacking

Nick Barclay / The Verge A vulnerability in the TikTok app for Android could have let attackers take over any account that clicked on a malicious link, potentially affecting hundreds of millions of users of the platform. Details of the one-click exploit were revealed today in a blog post from researchers on Microsoft’s 365 Defender…

Congress presses big crypto exchanges for details on how they’re fighting scams

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Congress wants to know what Coinbase, Binance.US, FTX, Kraken, and KuCoin are doing to address scams related to cryptocurrency. In separate letters sent to each crypto exchange, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform expresses concern over “the rapid growth of fraud and consumer abuse,” as well as…

USPTO Extends Deadline for Eligibility Guidance Comments via Federal Register Notice

Following U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal’s blog post in July explaining that she will be revisiting the Office’s 2019 subject matter eligibility guidance, the USPTO today announce a September 1 Federal Register Notice requesting public comments on the existing guidance. The Notice explained that “given the overwhelming interest in the guidance,…

Behold this award-winning image of fungus making a fly its “zombie” slave

Enlarge / The story of a conquest: The fruiting body of a parasitic fungus erupts from the body of its victim. (credit: Roberto García-Roa/CC BY 4.0) The striking photograph above vividly captures the spores of a parasitic “zombie” fungus (Ophiocordyceps) as they sprout from the body of a host fly in exquisite detail. Small wonder…

A faulty sensor may have scrubbed the launch of NASA’s massive SLS rocket

Enlarge / NASA’s SLS rocket may now launch on Saturday, September 3, 2022. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann) After scrubbing a launch attempt of the Space Launch System rocket on Monday, NASA officials said they’re working toward a second attempt to fly the Artemis I mission on Saturday, September 3. NASA flight controllers halted the first launch…