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- Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records August 31, 20222.5 million people were affected, in a breach that could spell more trouble down the line.
- Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger August 30, 2022Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool.
- Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms August 29, 2022Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a multi-factor authentication system.
- Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise August 26, 2022Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group.
- Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras August 25, 2022Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed.
- Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records August 31, 2022
Slashdot
- Scientists Grew Mini Human Guts Inside Mice February 3, 2023An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Your gut has an obvious job: It processes the food you eat. But it has another important function: It protects you from the bacteria, viruses, or allergens you ingest along with that food. "The largest part of the immune system in humans is the GI tract, and […]
- Pentagon Elects Not To Shoot Down Chinese Spy Balloon Traveling Over Montana February 3, 2023"A Chinese spy balloon is floating over the continental United States," writes Slashdot reader q4Fry. "As it headed over Montana, 'civilian flights in the area were halted and U.S. military aircraft, including advanced F-22 fighter jets, were put in the air.'" The Washington Post reports: The balloon's flight path takes it over "a number of […]
- Apple Hits Milestone of 2 Billion Active Devices As Services Set New Revenue Record February 3, 2023In its quarterly earnings report today, Apple said the company passed the 2 billion device milestone while Services have hit a new revenue record. 9to5Mac reports: Apple saw a dip for its Q1 2023 fiscal quarter with just over $117 billion in revenue. That's down 5% YoY -- with the compare being its all-time record […]
- Decentralized Social Media Project Nostr's Damus Gets Listed On Apple App Store February 3, 2023Nostr, a startup decentralized social network, got its Twitter-like Damus application listed on Apple's App Store. CoinDesk reports: Nostr is an open protocol that aims to create a censorship-resistant global social network. Media commentators have described it as a possible alternative to Elon Musk's Twitter. According to an article in Protos, Nostr is popular with […]
- Documents Show Meta Paid For Data Scraping Despite Years of Denouncing It February 3, 2023An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Meta has routinely fought data scrapers, but it also participated in that practice itself -- if not necessarily for the same reasons. Bloomberg has obtained legal documents from a Meta lawsuit against a former contractor, Bright Data, indicating that the Facebook owner paid its partner to scrape […]
- Scientists Grew Mini Human Guts Inside Mice February 3, 2023
Ars Technica
- Google isn’t moving Legacy G Suite users again, despite admin console warnings February 3, 2023Google accidentally published a bunch of beta messages about last year's transition.
- Apple Q1 earnings miss the mark almost across the board February 3, 2023CEO Tim Cook believes supply issues and a troubled economy were to blame.
- Extremely drug-resistant germ found in eye drops infects 55 in 12 states; 1 dead February 2, 2023CDC urges people to stop using EzriCare-branded artificial tears.
- After 16 years of freeware, Dwarf Fortress creators get their $7M payday February 2, 2023"When we pass from this world, you will be the reason we are remembered."
- Squid skin inspires novel “liquid windows” for greater energy savings February 2, 2023Bio-inspired system optimizes wavelength, intensity, dispersion of light reaching interiors.
- Google isn’t moving Legacy G Suite users again, despite admin console warnings February 3, 2023
Anandtech
- The MSI MPG A1000G PCIE5 PSU Review: Balance of Power February 2, 2023Back in December, we had the opportunity to take a look at MSI's MEG A1300P power supply, the company's latest flagship PSU. Besides offering plenty of power, the MEG Ai1300P was also MSI's first ATX 3.0 power supplies – and one of the first ATX 3.0 PSUs on the market overall. And while it was […]
- AMD’s Ryzen 7000X3D Chips Get Release Dates: February 28th and April 6th, For $699/$599/$449 February 2, 2023AMD today has announced the launch date and prices for its eagerly anticipated Ryzen 7000X3D series processors. Aimed primarily at gamers, the company’s first L3 V-Cache equipped Ryzen 7000 processors will begin rolling out on February 28th, when the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D go on sale for $699 and $599 respectively. This […]
- Western Digital Unveils Dual Actuator Ultrastar DC HS760 20TB HDD February 1, 2023Without much fanfare, Western Digital this week introduced its first dual actuator hard drive, a 20TB drive that is designed to offer SATA SSD-like sequential read/write performance. The Ultrastar DC HS760 drive is meant to increase IOPS-per-terabyte performance for hyperscale cloud datacenters and will compete against Seagate's dual actuator Exos 2X family of HDDs. Meanwhile, Western Digital's […]
- Samsung Portable SSD T7 Shield 4TB Review: IP65 PSSD Gets a Capacity Upgrade January 31, 2023Samsung has been enjoying market success with their lineup of portable SSDs, starting with the T1 back in 2015. The company has been regularly updating their PSSD lineup with the evolution of different high-speed interfaces as well as NAND flash technology. In early 2022, the company launched the Portable SSD T7 Shield, a follow-up to […]
- ASRock Industrial NUCS BOX-1360P/D4 Review: Raptor Lake-P Impresses, plus Surprise ECC January 29, 2023Low-power processors have traditionally been geared towards notebooks and other portable platforms. However, the continued popularity of ultra-compact form-factor desktop systems has resulted in UCFF PCs also serving as lead vehicles for the latest mobile processors. Such is the case with Intel's Raptor Lake-P - the processor SKUs were announced earlier this month at the […]
- The MSI MPG A1000G PCIE5 PSU Review: Balance of Power February 2, 2023
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