Because the Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider an appeal from the state of Virginia to overturn a ruling that the state's anti-spam law was unconstitutional, Jeremy Jaynes' conviction will not be reinstated. Jaynes had been sentenced to nine years for spamming AOL users in 2004. He is still in prison for an unrelated crime. According to the Associated Press, Virginia's attorney general will ask the state's General Assembly to rewrite the law. — CAM
Qualcomm on Tuesday disclosed nearly two dozen security vulnerabilities in its chipsets, including the company’s flagship suite of SnapDragon processor chips and affecting products that range from cars to powerline communications.
Open source software utilization has been scaled back by nearly 40% of industry professionals due to security concerns, with more than 50% reducing open source usage following the emergence of the widespread Log4j vulnerability, The Register reports.
New security vulnerabilities have been added by Keksec threat group, also known as Kek Security, FreakOut, and Necro, to its Enemybot Linux-based botnet to attack web servers, content management systems, and Android devices, reports The Hacker News.
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