Day: August 25, 2020

A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: FritzFrog has been used to try and infiltrate government agencies, banks, telecom companies, and universities across the US and Europe. Researchers have found what they believe is a previously undiscovered botnet that uses unusually advanced measures to covertly target millions of servers around the world. The botnet…


Galaxy Note 20 Ultra: How tough is the new Gorilla Glass? – CNET

Samsung’s new Note 20 Ultra is the first phone covered in the new Gorilla Glass Victus. Here’s how it held up to our scratch and drop tests. …read more Source:: CNet


Coronation: See the haunting trailer for AI Weiwei’s movie about China lockdown – CNET

The activist directed and produced the documentary from Europe, with ordinary citizens in Wuhan providing footage. It’s streaming now. …read more Source:: CNet


Phishing Attack Used Box to Land in Victim Inboxes

A phishing attack targeting government and security organizations used a legitimate Box page with Microsoft 365 branding to trick victims. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Windows 95 Released a Quarter Century Ago

New submitter bondman writes: Windows 95 was released a full quarter century ago today, on August 24th, 1995. Long gone, nearly forgotten? I’m surprised to not have come across a retrospective article yet. I’ve linked to the Wikipedia article. As for me I still haven’t grown to re-like The Rolling Stones “Start Me Up” yet….


Cisco buys BabbleLabs, aims to nix background noise on WebEx meetings

BabbleLabs takes out unwanted background noises in real-time. The technology will be integrated in Cisco’s collaboration portfolio. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Intel, HP, Tesla, etc protest to US monopoly watchdog: Are you just gonna let Qualcomm patent-tax us to death?

You had teeth once, FTC – use them Intel, HP, Tesla and a host of other tech giants have written to America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urging it to appeal Qualcomm’s legal win against the watchdog in a row over patent fees.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


HPE posts Q3 results ahead of estimates, solid as-a-service growth

HPE GreenLake services posted record 80 percent year-over-year growth in Q3 …read more Source:: ZDNet


Intuit rebounds from challenging tax season with strong Q4 results

For the year, Intuit said combined QuickBooks Online and TurboTax Online platform revenue increased 22% to $4.8 billion. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Online Business Fraud Down, Consumer Fraud Up

Criminals are changing tactics to match changing business conditions in the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report. …read more Source:: DarkReading