Day: November 6, 2020

Rough waters ahead: A phisherman’s tale

A third wave – feels more like a third tsunami. Many haven’t returned to the office; some may end up back in work-from-home scenarios. While workers may feel safe at home, false senses of complacency can easily mask very real cyber threats. Cybercriminals don’t pause for pandemics. With the increase in remote work, an explosion…


Maintaining an effective cybersecurity program during COVID-19

For most of this year, COVID-19 has dominated and disrupted our normal business routines, and as we relocated to avoid the first wave of the virus, the hackers and thieves weren’t far behind. As people began working remotely in large numbers, the number of unsecured remote desktops soared, as did brute-force attacks against those desktops….


Gitpaste-12 Worm Targets Linux Servers, IoT Devices

The newly discovered malware uses GitHub and Pastebin to house component code, and harbors 12 different initial attack vectors. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Name That Toon: Masks and Manners

Feeling creative? Submit your caption in the comments, and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card. …read more Source:: DarkReading


What Would We Experience If Earth Spontaneously Turned Into A Black Hole?

Ethan Siegel, writing at Medium’s Starts with a Bang: Either way, the first thing that would happen would be a transition from being at rest — where the force from the atoms on Earth’s surface pushed back on us with an equal and opposite force to gravitational acceleration — to being in free-fall: at 9.8…


A14X Bionic Allegedly Benchmarked Days Before Apple Silicon Mac Event

The chip expected to be at the core of the first Apple Silicon Mac — the “A14X” — may have been benchmarked just days before the next Apple event. From a report: The alleged CPU benchmarks for the “A14X” show a 1.80GHz processor capable of turbo-boosting to 3.10GHz marking this the first custom Apple Silicon…


2021 Nissan Frontier revealed abroad, foreshadowing our new pickup truck – Roadshow

The Navara debuted on Thursday — and gives us a pretty good look at the Frontier. …read more Source:: CNet


With big pickup truck profits, GM plans to dump more cash for EVs – Roadshow

GM CEO Mary Barra says the investments will also go into “affordable” segments. …read more Source:: CNet


iPhone 12 Pro component shortages has Apple filling shelves with older iPhones

The iPhone 12 Pro has been hit with component shortages, so Apple is planning on filling the gaps on shelves with older iPhones. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Pre-Black Friday deals at Office Depot are on right now: Save on all Lenovo PCs and monitors – CNET

You can save over $200 on an IdeaPad laptop or IdeaCentre desktop, just to name a few deals. …read more Source:: CNet