A new Portsmouth-based ISP called toob, which we reported last month had been established by several of Vodafone’s former directors and planned to roll-out a 900Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network to 100,000 UK premises by the end of 2021 (here), has secured a huge investment of £75m. The funding itself stems from the Amber …
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A look back at the highs and lows from the first 10 years of dating app Grindr. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Thieves no longer stop at credit card numbers and financial swindling. Sure, they want your money, but today’s career criminals want more. They want your data. Source:: Avast
Pope Francis hosts discussions on the future of robotics and ethics at the Vatican in Rome. Source:: BBC News – Technology
National UK cable ISP Virgin Media has confirmed that their soon-to-be 500Mbps capable ultrafast broadband and TV network is about to be rolled out to cover 6,000 premises in Musselburgh, which is the largest coastal settlement within the East Lothian (Scotland) area and home to about 21,000 people. Back in 2016 Virgin Media announced that …
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A vulnerability in SQLite could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive information on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to a heap-based buffer over-read condition that could occur in the affected software when the FTS5 extension is enabled. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by executing prefix queries within a transaction that …
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A vulnerability in Artifex Software Ghostscript could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on a targeted system. The vulnerability exists because the superexec operator is available in the internal dictionary of the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user to open a crafted PostScript file that submits …
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A vulnerability in Artifex Software Ghostscript could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on a targeted system. The vulnerability exists because the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method of the affected software. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user to open a crafted PostScript file that …
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A vulnerability in the edit_blog.php script of Moodle could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform a server-side request forgery (SSRF) attack on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to an input validation flaw in the edit_blog.php script when GET requests are performed. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by supplying crafted GET requests, …
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A vulnerability in Tuxera NTFS-3G could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient size checks by the affected software because the getcwd() function uses an unsigned integer argument. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by executing an application that submits malicious input to the …
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A vulnerability in the Snapcore snapd daemon could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to improper security restrictions imposed on the seccomp filter used by the affected software on systems with 64-bit architectures. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by bypassing access restrictions to insert …
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Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add a speech-to-text capability to your applications. Amazon Transcribe now supports transcription of audio in the following new languages: German and Korean. These languages expand upon the existing languages already available in Amazon Transcribe: US English, British English, Australian …
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With iPhone sales slowing, could the tech giant be about to announce a move into subscription TV? Source:: BBC News – Technology
AWS IoT Device Management is a service that allows you to onboard, organize, monitor, and remotely manage connected devices at scale. Within AWS IoT Device Management, fleet indexing allows you to index the Registry, Device Shadow, and connection state for every device in your fleet, as well as search for devices based on any combination …
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Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now integrated with AWS CloudTrail. AWS CloudTrail captures changes made to your Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics applications and delivers the log files to an Amazon S3 bucket you specify. Customers can now get visibility into their Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics application modifications including creation, deletion, and updates. Source:: Amazon AWS
In 2013, the FBI exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Firefox to seize control over a Dark Web network of child pornography sites. The alleged owner of that ring – 33-year-old Freedom Hosting operator Eric Eoin Marques – was arrested in Ireland later that year on a U.S. warrant and has been in custody ever since. …
Beginning today, you can call AWS IoT Core’s HTTPS Publish API with certificate-based client authentication on port 443. Previously this combination of protocol and authentication mechanism was only supported on port 8443. Source:: Amazon AWS
In today’s post we’re going to talk about building a CI/CD pipeline for Cloudflare Worker’s using Travis CI. If you aren’t yet aware, Cloudflare Workers allow you to run Javascript in all 165 of our data centers, and they deploy globally in about 30 seconds. Learn more here. There are a few steps before we …
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Optical keyboards entered the mainstream last year with Razer’s Huntsman Elite. But as I noted at the time, Razer was far from the first company to explore optical keyboard switches. A few years back I started noticing a company called “Bloody” showing up at every trade show, fronting huge booths full of keyboards—ones equipped with …
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Software designed to prevent cyber-attacks had a bug that could have let hackers get at machines. Source:: BBC News – Technology
