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Google has reportedly suspended all businesses with the world’s second-biggest smartphone maker, Huawei, and revoked its Android license effective immediately—a move that will have a drastic impact on Huawei devices across the globe. Revoking Android license means Huawei future smartphones will no longer have access to Android updates and apps like Gmail or the Play …

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It’s election season in Europe, as European Parliament seats are contested across the European Union by national political parties. With approximately 400 million people eligible to vote, this is one of the biggest democratic exercises in the world – second only to India – and it takes place once every five years. Over the course …

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The next generation of multi-Gigabit speed capable 5G based mobile broadband networks could be facing yet another challenge due to a backlog of disputes over access to UK street furniture (lampposts etc.). Related deployments in some parts of the country are allegedly being delayed by as much as 2 years. It’s not unfair to say …

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Microsoft has released Windows updates over the weekend that resolve an issue where insecure GOV.UK web sites could no longer be accessed using Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge. […] Source:: BleepingComputer

The banking group says it is responding to a shift in customer behaviour towards digital services. Source:: BBC News – Technology

New Huawei smartphones will lose access to some of Google’s programmes, Reuters news agency reports. Source:: BBC News – Technology

The new Microsoft Edge is deviating from other Chromium based browsers by redesigning the user interface for the Clear browsing data function. Not only are the Microsoft developers making it easier to find this privacy feature, but they are also improving the interface so all data options are visible by default. […] Source:: BleepingComputer

In a report on Friday, Google highlights the importance of linking a phone to an account when it comes to fighting hijacking attempts from automated attempts from bots, phishing, and targeted attacks. […] Source:: BleepingComputer

Victims should receive anonymity and laws need to include threats to share images, a victims group says. Source:: BBC News – Technology

The UK Government has today officially launched their new £200m Rural Gigabit Connectivity (RGC) programme, which was originally announced during the 2018 Budget and aims to encourage an “outside-in” approach to building new ultrafast broadband ISP networks by focusing on helping to connect rural areas. At present only around 7%+ of homes and businesses across …

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Do you think your email on Gmail is private? If so, you may want to think again, as your Gmail messages are being scanned by Google for purchases, which are then displayed in your Google account. […] Source:: BleepingComputer

For a little weekend fun, you can now get the The Witcher: Enhanced Edition for free simply by installing another free game called Gwent from and subscribing to the GOG.com newsletter. […] Source:: BleepingComputer

For a little weekend fun, you can now get the The Witcher: Enhanced Edition for free simply by installing another free game called Gwent from and subscribing to the GOG.com newsletter. […] Source:: BleepingComputer

Recently at Netdev 0x13, the Conference on Linux Networking in Prague, I gave a short talk titled “Linux at Cloudflare”. The talk ended up being mostly about BPF. It seems, no matter the question – BPF is the answer. Here is a transcript of a slightly adjusted version of that talk. At Cloudflare we run …

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Ogusers[.]com — a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims’ phone numbers — has itself been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, IP addresses and private messages for nearly 113,000 forum users. On May 12, the administrator of OGusers explained an outage …

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A vulnerability in the Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling (MFBDS) of Intel microcode could allow a local attacker to access sensitive information on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to improper memory operations that could expose a side channel on the affected system. An attacker with local access to a targeted system could exploit …

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A vulnerability in the Linux Kernel could allow a local attacker to access sensitive information on a targeted system. The vulnerability exists because the fs/ext4/extents.c source code file of the affected software does not zero out the unused memory region in the extent tree block. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by accessing the system …

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A vulnerability in the Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM) of Intel microcode could allow a local attacker to access sensitive information on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to improper memory operations that could expose a side channel on the affected system. An attacker with local access to a targeted system could exploit …

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A vulnerability in systemd could allow a local attacker to elevate their privileges on a targeted system. The vulnerability occurs when the DynamicUser property is used to execute a Set-user Identification (SUID) binary on a targeted system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by leveraging a flaw in the binary execution process. A successful exploit …

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Starting today, you can package, encrypt, and originate on demand video using AWS Elemental MediaPackage. The same just-in-time packaging features that you use for live channels are now available for video on demand (VOD) content. This means you can package file-based video and live video to multiple distribution formats and protect content with multiple digital …

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