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The world has, for the past few years, been awash with unicorn creams. The unicorn, that hallowed status when a startup reaches a billion dollar valuation, would seem to be the ambition of nearly every startup founder.
But the technology industry downturn over the past few months has called the unicorn model into question. All those companies that poured incredible amounts of money into growth at all costs, and purposely ignored revenue and profitability, went out on a serious limb -- and there is going to be some real pain as many of these companies have their valuations trimmed radically.
But all the while that the Ubers, Boxes and SnapChats were raising their monster rounds, other companies were going along a much more cautious route -- raising (comparatively) modest amounts, focusing on revenue acquisition and keeping a close eye on the bottom line.
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Attackers are abusing the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to re-infect computers with malware after the machines have been already cleaned by antivirus products.
The technique was observed in the wild last month by researchers from SecureWorks while responding to a malware incident for a customer. The antivirus software installed on a compromised computer detected and removed a malware program, but the computer was still showing signs of malicious activity at the network level.
Upon further investigation, the researchers found two rogue jobs registered in BITS, a Windows service that's used by the OS and other apps to download updates or transfer files. The two malicious jobs periodically downloaded and attempted to reinstall the deleted malware.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a mistake that many, perhaps most, people make and reused passwords for some social networking sites.
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 If there's one person you'd think would use good security to protect social media accounts, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg would be a good bet. But apparently, nothing is sacred: Zuckerberg's Twitter, Pinterest and possibly Instagram accounts have all been hacked. Zuckerberg's accounts appear to have been compromised sometime on Sunday. In a series of messages posted to Zuck's Twitter and Pinterest accounts, the hacker group OurMine took responsibility, and claimed they were just trying to raise awareness. DON'T MISS: Can you spot how Facebook''s new font is different? Their claim is that Zuckerberg's password -- which was "dadada" -- was exposed by the 2012 LinkedIn password dump . That would make a lot of sense, because a) Zuckerberg hasn't used his Twitter or Pinterest accounts in years, and b) a bunch of other celebrities have also seen their Twitter accounts hacked in the last few days. By this morning, Zuckerberg appears to have regained control of his social media accounts, and OurMine's Twitter account has been frozen. I guess things work a little more easily when you're the CEO of the world's largest social network, but it's still a good cautionary tale for the rest of us, who will find it a little harder to regain control if (or when) we get hacked. https://twitter.com/Ben_Hall/status/739534393585340417 The LinkedIn password leak is the largest of its kind in recent memory, consisting of the account info of some 164 million users. The danger of the leak isn't so much exposing the details of people's LinkedIn accounts, but rather exposing username and password combos that people often reuse across many sites. Best practice is to use unique passwords on every site, but as this hack proves, even the best of us can't be bothered. You can check if your LinkedIn password has been exposed with the HaveIBeenPwned tool . If so, you might want to change your password and enable two-factor authentication on any accounts you care about.
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