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Supervisors assign more unpaid work to workers portrayed as loyal than disloyal, honest, or fair coworkers. Credit: Marco Verch - https://foto.wuestenigel.com/disappointed-and-tired-woman-laid-her-head-down-on-the-table/ Company loyalty is a double-edged sword, according to a new study. Managers target loyal workers over less committed colleagues when dolling out unpaid work and additional job tasks.…

Cryptocurrencies have become a popular investment choice over the years, with several platforms providing investors with opportunities to buy, trade, and store digital assets. However, with the increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies, the risks of exploitation and hacking have also risen. The Algorand (ALGO) community recently suffered an exploit that resulted in the loss of around $9.6 million worth of ALGO tokens. On the other hand, HedgeUp (HDUP) is a new cryptocurrency gaining traction in the market. Analysts…

Nintendo has taken down the online features of the Wii U versions of Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon today due to an unspecified security vulnerability. VGC reports that the games were taken offline at 11:30PM ET last night and that the company suggests the fix could take days (via IGN). The Nintendo Switch versions of the games are not affected.Splatoon , Mario Kart 8 — This network service is currently unavailable due to urgent maintenance required to fix a vulnerability related to online play. We do not yet have information…

Last week, Apple released iOS 16.3.1 to all users. While this version brought several features and bug fixes, Twitter user Aaron discovered that Apple recently updated the security notes for this release as well as iOS 16.3. According to the company, primarily, iOS 16.3.1 fixed issues related to iCloud and Siri requests for the Find My app. Not only that, but Apple also improved its Crash Detection algorithm once again, which was still suffering from false positive triggers. Now, as we can see with the new…

It’s been a bad few months for password managers — albeit mostly just for LastPass. But after the revelations that LastPass had suffered a major breach, attention is now turning to open-source manager KeePass. Accusations have been flying that a new vulnerability allows hackers to surreptitiously steal a user’s entire password database in unencrypted plaintext. That’s an incredibly serious claim, but KeePass’s developers are disputing it. Stock Depot/Getty Images KeePass is an open-source password manager that stores…

A new exploit in the PC version of Grand Theft Auto Online is causing players to lose game progress and in-game currency, with some accounts becoming corrupted or banned. The exploit, a “remote code execution,” was distributed through the developer of the North Online GTA cheat mod. The exploit can reportedly impact anyone, not just players in the same multiplayer lobby as the attacker, according to BleepingComputer. That means anyone currently online and playing the game on PC is at least theoretically vulnerable to…

The standard typeface that Apple uses across iOS and iPadOS devices is SF Pro, and while it is clean and readable, you may get sick of it after staring at your iPhone all day. Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t allow us to change the system font on the iPhone, but if you’re intent on doing so anyway, there’s an exploit in iOS 16 that makes it possible. Earlier this week, developer Zhuowei Zhang released a proof-of-concept app on GitHub that lets users overwrite fonts on iOS. As Zhang explains, the app only works on…

On Friday, Google began rolling out an emergency stable channel update for the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac, and Linux to patch a zero-day exploit that exists in the wild. If you haven’t done so, check and make sure your browser is updated to at least version 108.0.5359.94 on Mac and Linux and 108.0.5359.94/.95 on Windows. Ninth zero-day of 2022 hits Chrome Google’s Prudhvikumar Bommana says on the Chrome Releases blog that CVE-2022-4262 is a high-severity type confusion weakness in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript…

This year’s long list of crypto security exploits targeting decentralized finance has another unwelcome entry. This year's long list of crypto security exploits targeting decentralized finance has another unwelcome entry. Binance, the largest digital-asset exchange, said Friday it's helping to probe an attack on a token offered by the Ankr protocol. The token, aBNBc, is now almost worthless after trading at about $300 a day ago. The aBNBc token had derived its value in part from a link to Binance Coin and was…

The Ankr DeFi project was hacked for nearly $5 million, and the price of its mainstay coin is now barely worth over $1. Image: Zarko Prusac (Getty Images)Just how far will hackers go to eek out a profit from a crypto entity? In one DeFi projects’ case, those looking to exploit found they could make a pretty penny by simply telling the system to mint a quadrillion crypto tokens.Binance CEO Chengpeng Zhao, who often goes by CZ, wrote early Tuesday there were “possible hacks” of the Ankr and Hay coins listed on the…