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BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the best tech stories of the week. Source:: BBC News – Technology
BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the best tech stories of the week. Source:: BBC News – Technology
This two-week edition covers a lot of new ransomware variants, including attackers utilizing Coronavirus-themes for their phishing scams and ransomware variants. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
Cybersecurity researchers with Qihoo 360’s NetLab today unveiled details of two recently spotted zero-day cyberattack campaigns in the wild targeting enterprise-grade networking devices manufactured by Taiwan-based DrayTek. According to the report, at least two separate groups of hackers exploited two critical remote command injection vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-8515) affecting DrayTek Vigor Source:: The Hackers News
Cybersecurity researchers with Qihoo 360’s NetLab today unveiled details of two recently spotted zero-day cyberattack campaigns in the wild targeting enterprise-grade networking devices manufactured by Taiwan-based DrayTek. According to the report, at least two separate groups of hackers exploited two critical remote command injection vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-8515) affecting DrayTek Vigor Source:: The Hackers News
Attackers are attempting to deliver Remcos remote access tool (RAT) payloads on the systems of small businesses via phishing emails impersonating the U.S. Small Business Administration (U.S. SBA). […] Source:: BleepingComputer
Hackers from the FIN7 cybercriminal group have been targeting various businesses with malicious USB devices acting as a keyboard when plugged into a computer. Injected commands download and execute a JavaScript backdoor associated with this actor. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
New York has the highest number of coronavirus cases in the US and a shortage of ventilators. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Google warns businesses against disabling their websites during the COVID-19 and, instead, recommends limiting their functionality to avoid being penalized in Google Search results. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
A changing data landscape, the proliferation of credential-based threats, and a tougher regulatory environment is creating pressure for organizations to deploy identity and access management (IAM) systems, even though the systems can be a bear to get right. [ Learn more about identity management: its definition, uses and solutions. | Get the latest from CSO…
AWS Managed Services (AMS) now supports several AWS big data tools, including Amazon Sagemaker, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon CloudSearch as Self-provisioned services (previously known as enabled or compatible services). With the support of these three new AWS services, you can deploy machine learning models, query large volumes of data and quickly deploy data lakes,…
AWS App Mesh now supports sharing a Mesh with multiple AWS accounts. Source:: Amazon AWS
If you are supporting an elderly member of your family, you might be interested in a collection of home tech devices that can help extend their ability to live more independently. We all need help as we get older, and I write this column based on the experience of my family and caring for my…
Everyone’s looking to save money on TV entertainment, and there’s never been a better time to cut the cable cord. Instead of paying upwards of $100 per month for a bloated channel bundle, you can replace it with streaming TV services—and perhaps a TV antenna—at a fraction of the cost. Sorting through these new options…
After trade from business stops, food and drink wholesalers are launching online home deliveries. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Broadband and mobile providers EE (BT) and Virgin Media UK have today posted some interesting snapshots to help illustrate how the current spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) is impacting the way their customers make use of internet connectivity, which among other things show a big surge during the Prime Minister’s daily briefings. We’ll start off with…
Europol is warning that online child abusers are preparing to take advantage of more unsupervised kids online. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Vodafone is offering half a million pay monthly mobile customers 30 days of free unlimited data. Source:: BBC News – Technology
If everyone’s home and performing vital work or school tasks on their laptop, you need to keep those PCs safe. Amazon is selling Norton 360 Deluxe for five devices for a year for $25, half-off its usual $50 rate and matching the lowest price we’ve ever seen. Norton 360 is Symantec’s “total package” approach to…
Until Microsoft releases a patch for two critical vulnerabilities affecting the font parsing component in all supported versions of Windows, some users can apply temporary protection in the form of a micropatch that prevents exploitation. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
Until Microsoft releases a patch for two critical vulnerabilities affecting the font parsing component in all supported versions of Windows, some users can apply temporary protection in the form of a micropatch that prevents exploitation. […] Source:: BleepingComputer