How We Hacked Thousands of Data Centers in Minutes Using a 20-Year-Old Vulnerability

Lance Whitney/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Copilot’s new PC Insights can analyze your Windows environment. You can ask questions about your hardware, software, and settings. The goal is to provide key info so you don’t have to hunt for it yourself. Troubleshooting a Windows problem or…

Samsung’s latest foldable phones have arrived: At the Samsung Unpacked event in London on Wednesday, the company unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, and the Galaxy Z Flip 8. The phones are available for preorder now through Samsung and the various phone carriers, and will hit stores on…

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pros and cons Pros Outstanding battery life Good hardware High quality screen Cons Prone to fingerprints Highly reflective Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. For much of 2026, I figured HP had the midrange laptop market on lockdown. Over the past year or so, the company has released one impressive low-cost notebook after another,…

Google’s top privacy and security staff have warned that plans in Europe, designed to get it to open up its search data and Android operating system to competitors, could lead to people’s search queries being hacked and an increase in cybercrime across the content, according to multiple interviews and documents shared with WIRED. Mountain View’s…

In February 2026, Socket.dev published research on a multi-stage npm supply chain worm operating under the internal flag SANDWORM_MODE. The campaign spanned 19 malicious packages in total across two unique publisher aliases and demonstrated a new class of supply chain attacks that targeted AI-augmented development workflows.  Many recently observed supply chain attacks target build…