Day: September 3, 2020

APIs are the next frontier in cybercrime

Application programming interfaces (APIs) make everything a bit easier – from data sharing to system connectivity to delivery of critical features and functionality – but they also make it much easier for the bad actors (and the bad bots they deploy). Here are the top 5 API vulnerabilities that get exploited by hackers, including some…


VMware supremo Pat Gelsinger makes peace with Microsoft, and Virtzilla pitches Tanzu to the Spring crowd

We talk to VMware VP and Kubernetes co-founder Craig McLuckie: ‘Our ambition was to disrupt’ – but not just for Google SpringOne Virtual SpringOne kicked off with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger declaring that the company’s partnership with Microsoft – Azure Spring Cloud is generally available from today – has ended decades of “clawing and spitting…


Galaxy Note 20 vs. Note 10 and Note 9: Spec-by-spec comparison – CNET

Compare Samsung’s new Note 20 with its last two predecessors. …read more Source:: CNet


MSI branches out from gaming with Summit work laptops – CNET

Two different lines and each in two sizes, the Summit series gets down to business with new 11th-gen Intel Core CPUs. …read more Source:: CNet


US court deems NSA bulk phone-call snooping illegal, possibly unconstitutional, and probably pointless anyway

Snowden, privacy campaigners cheer ruling 7 years in the making The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled [PDF] that the National Security Agency’s phone-call slurping was indeed naughty, seven years after former contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the tawdry affair.… …read more Source:: Register


BEC Wire Transfers Average $80K Per Attack

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


NSA Surveillance Exposed By Snowden Ruled Unlawful

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


Feds Can’t Ask Google For Every Phone In A 100-Meter Radius, Court Says

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


New Python Scripted Trojan Malware Targets Fintech Companies

…read more Source:: PacketStorm


NSA Mass Surveillance Program Illegal, U.S. Court Rules

The NSA argued its mass surveillance program stopped terrorist attacks – but a new U.S. court ruling found that this is not, and may have even been unconstitutional. …read more Source:: Threatpost