Day: January 20, 2020

Citrix emits patches to stop RCE-holes fiddling with Gateway and ADC

SD-WAN WANOP will have to wait a few days, though Citrix has rushed out official fixes for the well-publicised vuln in some of its server products after miscreants were seen deploying their own custom patches that left a backdoor open for later exploitation.… …read more Source:: Register


Over a thousand electronic gizmos went missing from London councils last year

Mobile phone for sale. One careless owner Butterfingered London councils have managed to lose nearly 1,300 laptops, mobiles and tablets, according to figures obtained by Freedom of Information requests.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Huawei Signs Maps Deal With TomTom

Dutch navigation and digital mapping company TomTom said on Friday it had closed a deal with China’s Huawei Technologies for the use of its maps and services in smartphone apps. From a report: The deal with TomTom means that the Chinese telecoms and technology giant can now use the Dutch company’s maps, traffic information and…


GDPR: 160,000 data breaches reported already, so expect the big fines to follow

The number of breaches reported each day continues to rise – and the number of significant fines is soon to follow. …read more Source:: ZDNet


’75 Nixie Multimeter As Digital Dice

For the casual Monopoly or Risk player, using plain six-sided dice is probably fine. For other games you may need dice with much more than six sides, and if you really want to go overboard you can do what [John] did and build electronic dice with a random number generator if you really need to…


Asus ZenBook Flip 15 UX563FD review: A feature-rich 15-inch convertible

The ZenBook Flip 15 UX563FD offers a high-quality 4k touch screen, a stylus and discrete Nvidia graphics. Creative types may even find uses for the secondary ScreenPad. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Photobox ditches Amazon’s Redshift, cuddles up to Snowflake

AWS and Google data warehousing stuff considered, then ignored Online photo print and gift service Photobox is quitting Amazon’s Redshift data warehouse to hitch its wagon to competing cloud-native systems from Snowflake.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


HP Remotely Disables a Customer’s Printer Until He Joins Company’s Monthly Subscription Service

A Twitter user’s complaint last week in which he produces photo evidence of HP warning him that his ink cartridges would be disabled until he starts paying for HP Instant Ink monthly subscription service has gone viral on the social media. Ryan Sullivan, the user who made the complaint, said he only discovered the warning…


New Year Habits – What Do You Do For Data Storage?

2020 is a year of reflection and avoiding regret, and one of the biggest practices we all know we should do better is back up our data. Inevitably there will be a corruption or accident, and we mourn the loss of some valuable data and vow to never let it happen again, and then promptly…


Are We Secure Yet? How to Build a “Post-Breach” Culture

There are many ways to improve your organization’s cybersecurity practices, but the most important principle is to start from the top. …read more Source:: DarkReading