New Smoke Alarms Are Better at Detecting Fires but Still Beep for Bacon
NIST research in a kitchen fire laboratory shows that updated smoke detectors still produce nuisance alarms during cooking....
Why Pay A Pentester?
The evolution of software always catches us by surprise. I remember betting against the IBM computer Deep Blue...
Exotic SambaSpy is now dancing with Italian users
Introduction In May 2024, we detected a campaign exclusively targeting victims in Italy. We were rather surprised by...
North Korean Hackers Target Energy and Aerospace Industries with New MISTPEN Malware
A North Korea-linked cyber-espionage group has been observed leveraging job-themed phishing lures to target prospective victims in energy...
Chrome Introduces One-Time Permissions and Enhanced Safety Check for Safer Browsing
Google has announced that it’s rolling out a new set of features to its Chrome browser that gives...
Google wins legal challenge against 1.49bn euro fine
The firm is under pressure worldwide over the dominance of its search and ad-tech businesses. Source:: BBC News...
GSMA Plans End-to-End Encryption for Cross-Platform RCS Messaging
The GSM Association, the governing body that oversees the development of the Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol, on...
Patch Issued for Critical VMware vCenter Flaw Allowing Remote Code Execution
Broadcom on Tuesday released updates to address a critical security flaw impacting VMware vCenter Server that could pave...
The Plucky Squire: From Pokémon to a page-turning indie hit
How a former Pokémon art director launched a studio and made one of the year’s most anticipated games....
AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitLab runners
AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitLab self-hosted runners. Customers can configure their CodeBuild projects to receive GitLab CI/CD...
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports AWS-KMS with customer managed keys
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS) using customer managed...
Announcing general availability of AWS SDK for Swift
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS SDK for Swift, the official AWS solution for accessing...
Broadcom fixes critical RCE bug in VMware vCenter Server
Broadcom has fixed a critical VMware vCenter Server vulnerability that attackers can exploit to gain remote code execution on...
Construction firms breached in brute force attacks on accounting software
Hackers are brute-forcing passwords for highly privileged accounts on exposed Foundation accounting servers, widely used in the construction...
Tech Life: Mapping a changing world
How live updating of online maps is helping humanitarian work around the world. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Issue #647 (Sept. 17, 2024)
#647 – SEPTEMBER 17, 2024 How to Use Conditional Expressions With NumPy where() This tutorial teaches you how...
Accelerating Oracle Database Gen AI Workloads with NVIDIA NIM and NVIDIA cuVS
The vast majority of the world’s data remains untapped, and enterprises are looking to generate value from this...
Cloudflare outage cuts off access to websites in some regions
A rolling Cloudflare outage is impacting access to web sites worldwide, including BleepingComputer, with sites working in some...
AT&T pays $13 million FCC settlement over 2023 data breach
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reached a $13 million settlement with AT&T to resolve a probe into...
How to block YouTube on your children’s school devices
I love YouTube. Whenever I need to learn how to fix something or want to learn to make...