Month: August 2020

Pocket TV Now Shows the Inspection Channel 24/7

Those little pocket TVs were quite the cool gadget back in the ’80s and ’90s, but today they’re pretty much useless at least for their intended purpose of watching analog television. (If someone is out there making tiny digital-to-analog converter boxes for these things, please let us know.) Now that analog pocket TVs are obsolete,…


Apple Accidentally Notarizes Shlayer Malware Used in Adware Campaign

The notarized malware payloads were discovered in a recent MacOS adware campaign, disguised as Adobe Flash Player updates. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Cisco warns miscreants are crippling IOS XR network gear over the internet with memory black-holes. No patch yet

Plus: Time to dump that old backdoored ZTE mobile hotspot In brief Cisco has warned hackers are crashing or crippling its networking kit out in the field by black-holing all available memory via specially crafted IGMP packets.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Want to learn to code? Check out these 5 online coding courses for beginners – CNET

Knowing how to code can unlock new job offers and let you be more creative with projects. …read more Source:: CNet


Charming Kitten Returns with WhatsApp, LinkedIn Effort

The Iran-linked APT is targeting Israeli scholars and U.S. government employees in a credential-stealing effort. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Apple Mistakenly Approved a Widely Used Malware To Run on Macs

Apple has some of the strictest rules to prevent malicious software from landing in its app store, even if on occasion a bad app slips through the net. But last year Apple took its toughest approach yet by requiring developers to submit their apps for security checks in order to run on millions of Macs…


OPARP Telepresence Robot

[Erik Knutsson] is stuck inside with a bunch of robot parts, and we know what lies down that path. His Open Personal Assistant Robotic Platform aims to help out around the house with things like filling pet food bowls, but for now, he is taking one step at a time and working out the bugs…


Mozilla research: Browsing histories are unique enough to reliably identify users

Online advertisers don’t need huge lists of the sites we access. Just 50-150 of our favorite sites are enough. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Ferrari GTC4Lusso, despite being amazing, exits production – Roadshow

It seems like anyone looking for a Ferrari with some utility will need to wait for the marque’s SUV. …read more Source:: CNet


Start Me Up: What Has The Windows 95 Desktop Given Us 25 Years Later?

We’ve had something of an anniversary of late, and it’s one that will no doubt elicit a variety of reactions from our community. It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating system that gave the majority of 1990s PC users their first taste of a desktop-based GUI and a 32-bit operating…