Day: December 16, 2020

It’s not just for science: Did you know that supercomputing really can mean business?

Join us online next month to open the secrets of SuperPOD with DDN Webcast Supercomputers are one of the wonders of the modern age, offering unparalleled power which can be used to crack the thorniest of problems.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Dutch Prosecutors Find a Hacker Did Successfully Log Into Donald Trump’s Twitter Account

Dutch prosecutors have found a hacker did successfully log in to Donald Trump’s Twitter account by guessing his password — “MAGA2020!” From a report: But they will not be punishing Victor Gevers, who was acting “ethically.” Mr Gevers shared what he said were screenshots of the inside of Mr Trump’s account on 22 October, during…


Google Mail outage: Did you see that error message last night? Why the ‘account does not exist’ response is a worry

Error message leads to cancelled emails, unverified accounts, potential email loss A Google Mail outage yesterday saw the cloud giant’s server respond with the message “the email account that you tried to reach does not exist,” potentially causing the sending server to give up, or remove the email address from lists, rather than trying again…


Google’s Blob Opera is a weird and wonderful experiment – CNET

Thanks so machine learning, you can make a bunch of colorful blobs harmonize with each other. …read more Source:: CNet


The SolarWinds Perfect Storm: Default Password, Access Sales and More

Meanwhile, Microsoft and other vendors are quickly moving to block the Sunburst backdoor used in the attack. …read more Source:: Threatpost


IoT solutions power safe, speedy and cold COVID-19 vaccine delivery

Advances in Internet of Things technologies make it possible to monitor temperatures of vaccine shipments in transit and can greatly improve public confidence that vaccines are safe and effective. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Sit Up Straight!: Open Source Bluetooth Posture Sensing

As more and more people spend their working hours behind a computer, bad posture and the accompanying back pain and back problems become a growing epidemic. To combat this in his own daily life, [ImageryEel] made PosturePack, a wearable Bluetooth-enabled posture sensor. The PosturePack is designed to fit into a small pocket sewn into the…


AWS catches up to Azure and GCP with CloudShell, adds deliberate injection of chaos

Plus: Managed Grafana service for observability re:Invent Amazon Web Services CTO Dr Werner Vogels has opened up on CloudShell, a Linux environment accessed through the browser which gives users a command-line and scripting environment for all AWS services.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Patching Still Poses Problems for Industrial Controllers, Networking Devices

More than 90% of devices that run the popular VxWorks embedded operating system remain vulnerable to critical flaws disclosed more than a year ago. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Partial Gmail outage resolved: Users reported a variety of problems Tuesday

UPDATE: Reports were pouring in of a variety of Gmail problems. The issues have been fixed. …read more Source:: ZDNet