NEWS
Patchable and Preventable Security Issues Lead Causes of Q1 Attacks
Attacks against U.S. companies spike in Q1 2022 with patchable and preventable external vulnerabilities responsible for bulk of attacks.Eighty-two percent of attacks on organizations in Q1 2022 were caused by the external exposure of a known vulnerabilities in the...
Google Warns Spyware Being Deployed Against Android, iOS Users
The company is warning victims in Italy and Kazakhstan that they have been targeted by the malware from Italian firm RCS Labs.Google is warning victims in Kazakhstan and Italy that they are being targeted by Hermit, a sophisticated and modular spyware from Italian...
The Mars Express spacecraft is finally getting a Windows 98 upgrade
Engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA) are getting ready for a Windows 98 upgrade on an orbiter circling Mars. The Mars Express spacecraft has been operating for more than 19 years, and the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS)...
Fake voicemail notifications are after Office365, Outlook credentials
A phishing campaign using fake voicemail notifications has been and is still targeting various US-based organizations, in an attempt to grab employees’ Office365 and Outlook login credentials, Zscaler warns.The campaing seems to be a repeat of a previous, similar one,...
Clear Your Android Phone’s Cookies and Cache To Get Rid of Excess Junk Files
Just like on a PC, every now and again it's good to clear out junk files on your Android phone. Clearing out the cookies and cache on your Android phone's web browser is a good way to get rid of a lot of that, as it's likely to have built up over the course of...
LCD vs. LED vs. Mini LED vs. OLED: A quick guide
Somewhere along the line, consumer display technology became an alphabet soup full of terms using the letters "LED."In this succinct guide, we'll provide a brief overview of common initialisms found in the world of TV, PC monitor, and laptop displays. To keep things...
Internet Explorer was once synonymous with the Internet, but today it’s gone for good
Microsoft's Internet Explorer has died many deaths over the years, but today is the one that counts. The final version of the browser, Internet Explorer 11, will no longer receive support or security updates starting today, and it will gradually be removed from...
Metaverse: Momentum is building, but companies are still staying cautious
Few, if any, emerging technologies receive as much hype as the metaverse. Such is the excitement that 40% more companies mentioned 'metaverse' in their company filing documents during the first quarter of 2022, according to researcher GlobalData.These pronouncements...
This new Windows 11 privacy feature shows when apps access your microphone, camera or location
Windows 11 is getting a similar feature to iOS's App Privacy Report called 'Privacy Auditing', which shows a history of each application's access to sensitive devices like your microphone or information about your location.Under 'Privacy & security' within the...