Samsung’s Galaxy Book Flex, one of the first laptops with a QLED display, and one of Samsung’s most premium laptops in ages, is now on sale in the US. It’s a sign the company is becoming more serious about its laptop offerings. The Galaxy Flex is a premium 2-in-1 laptop that comes in both 13.3-inch…
Researchers warn commercial airplane systems can be spoofed impacting flight safety of nearby aircraft.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
Google Duo is one of the simplest apps for making video calls with friends and family, but it’s been limited by the fact that it generally requires a phone number to use. Frankly, I don’t want everyone to have my phone number. It now seems Google is changing that requirement, thanks to a hidden change…
Hackers targeted Ghost on Sunday, in a cryptocurrency mining attack that caused widespread outages.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
An anti-Trump political organization is using AI originally designed to tackle Islamic State propaganda to counter coronavirus disinformation spread by the president. The system has been repurposed to spot comments from Trump that are about to go viral. It will then identify the most popular counter-narratives, and invite a network of more than 3.4 million influencers “to share these highly visual and emotional…
Cybersecurity researcher Mordechai Guri from Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev recently demonstrated a new kind of malware that could be used to covertly steal highly sensitive data from air-gapped and audio-gapped systems using a novel acoustic quirk in power supply units that come with modern computing devices. Dubbed ‘POWER-SUPPLaY,’ the latest research builds…
Elon Musk isn’t messing about: It appears the maverick billionaire is actually selling at least two of his luxury California homes. Listings for two multi-million-dollar houses reported to be owned by Musk recently appeared on real estate website Zillow. [Read: Elon Musk bought $45M in Tesla stock since ‘that weed joke’ — now it’s worth double]…
Days after cybersecurity researchers sounded the alarm over two critical vulnerabilities in the SaltStack configuration framework, a hacking campaign has already begun exploiting the flaws to breach servers of LineageOS, Ghost, and Digicert. Tracked as CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652, the disclosed flaws could allow an adversary to execute arbitrary code on remote servers deployed in data…
After getting a $5.7 billion investment from Facebook, Indian’s largest carrier, Reliance Jio, has raised another $748 million at a valuation of $65 billion — this time from private equity firm Silver Lake. The firm will own a 1% stake in Jio. Jio is currently India’s biggest telecom network provider with more than 388 subscribers.…
The team behind the ransomware, first spotted in late 2014 and typically targeting Russian victims, apologized to victims in a post on GitHub.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
