Day: February 2, 2021

RF Enables Takeover of Hostile Drones

Tempting as it may be to blast drones out of the sky, a less aggressive approach may yield better data about attackers – and keep bystanders safe. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Best Chromebook in 2021

Not everyone needs a MacBook or a Windows 10 laptop. These Chromebook laptops feature low prices and long battery lives. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Tiny Kobalos Malware Bedevils Supercomputers to Steal Logins

The sophisticated backdoor steals SSH credentials for servers in academic and scientific high-performance computing clusters. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Magento Web Skimmers Piggyback in Ongoing Costway Website Compromise

An e-commerce credit-card skimmer is being used by a second skimmer to steal payment data – and both are on Costway’s website. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Intuit buys OneSaaS to bolster QuickBooks Commerce

OneSaaS, based in Sydney, Australia, will be folded into Intuit’s QuickBooks Commerce​. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Microsoft makes available Windows 10 ‘in cloud’ configuration settings for IT admins

Microsoft is continuing to try to simplify the management of Windows 10 PCs for businesses and education customers, this time with a new collection of settings called ‘in cloud.’ …read more Source:: ZDNet


Internet Blackouts Skyrocket Amid Global Political Unrest

Where there’s a coup, there will probably be an internet outage. From a report: Internet disruptions in Myanmar early Monday morning coincided with reports that top politicians, including the country’s de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, were being rounded up by the military. That’s no surprise: internet blackouts are now common around the world when…


Apple’s colossal e-waste timebomb

An unfortunate yet inevitable side-effect of the popularity of gadgets is e-waste, and it’s something that every company has to address. But Apple is facing a literal skyscraper. …read more Source:: ZDNet


In Rust we trust: Shoring up Apache, ISRG ditches C, turns to wunderkind lang for new TLS crypto module

Elder server httpd to be revitalized with Google-funded memory-safe add-on At almost 26 years old, the Apache HTTP Server, known as httpd, has a memory problem: it is written in C, a language known among other things for its lack of memory safety.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Fighting Fileless Malware, Part 1: What Is It?

Despite multiple layers of protection, fileless malware cyberattacks remain rampant and difficult to defeat. In this, the first of The Edge’s three-part series about the cyberthreat and how to fight back, you’ll learn what fileless malware is and why it’s so dangerous. …read more Source:: DarkReading