Day: August 5, 2020

Dogged by sickly supply chain, Arista cats warn of networking gear shortages until the end of 2020

CEO bemoans looming recession and ‘trade wars’, but hey, we’re halfway through the week Elongated lead times for Arista’s hottest networking gear won’t likely improve until at least the final quarter of 2020 at the earliest as the supply chain continues to recover from COVID-19.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Microsoft Teams Patch Bypass Allows RCE

An attacker can hide amidst legitimate traffic in the application’s update function. …read more Source:: Threatpost


NSA Warns Smartphones Leak Location Data

The agency known for its own questionable surveillance activity advised how mobile users can limit others’ ability to track where they are. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Perfect Your Beer Pong Game with the PongMate CyberCannon Mark III

[Grant] was inspired to help his party guests improve their beer pong game. What he created is a fairly impressive contraption, sure to make him unstoppable in his next bout. The device uses a gyroscope and a time-of-flight sensor to calculate the optimum trajectory for the ping pong ball. The user is guided to the…


White House Unveils Partnership To Boost Quantum Science Education

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy said on Wednesday the Trump administration is launching a national education partnership to expand access to K-12 quantum information science (QIS) education with major companies and research institutions. From a report: The public-private initiative with the National Science Foundation includes Amazon’s Amazon Web Services, Boeing, Alphabet’s…


Cybersecurity Budget Rose in 2019, Uncertainty Prevails in 2020

Budgets rise as IT complexity continued to challenge companies, with identity and access management technology an increasingly common focus. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Samsung announces Galaxy Z Fold 2 with bigger front display, new colors and hole-punch display

We’ll learn more about the Z Fold 2 in September. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Microsoft Paid $13.7M in Bug Bounty Rewards in 2019-2020

The 2019-2020 program year awarded 327 security researchers through 15 bounty programs, with a largest reward of $200,000. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Facebook’s Instagram Launches TikTok Copycat in Political Storm

Facebook’s Instagram photo-sharing app is launching its clone of TikTok in more than 50 countries, a week after Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg defended the company’s copycat strategies to U.S. lawmakers at an antitrust hearing. From a report: The product, called Reels, lets people edit 15-second clips of videos together alongside music, just like on…


Intel and VMware get down and virty to collaborate on virtualized RAN platform

Helpful as Huawei is increasingly swept aside for 5G infrastructure Intel has announced a new partnership with virtualization giant VMWare to collaborate on building a new software platform for 5G vRAN (virtualized radio access network) infrastructure.… …read more Source:: TheRegister