Cases reported to the FTC doubled last year as cybercriminals took advantage of increased filing for government relief benefits due to the pandemic. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Company reckons setup is ‘first of its kind in Europe’ Scaleway is running a farm of Apple M1 Mac Minis in its repurposed fallout shelter beneath Paris, France.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Investors organizing on social media hit multimillion-dollar paydays as they fought Wall Street over GameStop’s share price. Experts say it can’t last. …read more Source:: CNet

Poly’s offerings aim to fine tune camera optics and microphones to deliver broadcast quality video from home. …read more Source:: ZDNet

A LockBit ransomware operator shares why he became involved in cybercrime, how he chooses victims, and what’s in his toolbox. …read more Source:: DarkReading

An anonymous reader shares an opinion piece from Bloomberg, written by Liam Denning and Elaine He: Electrifying U.S. vehicles wipes out the equivalent of our entire current power demand. The U.S. consumes a lot of energy; last year, about 100 quadrillion BTUs (equivalent to 17 billion barrels of oil; which, we’ll admit, is only marginally…

‘We attempted to add 1,200 servers to our web tier’ – but with a saturated network it did no good Slack says it has identified a scaling failure in its AWS Transit Gateways (TGWs) as the reason for the chat service’s monumental outage on 4 January. As a result, Amazon’s cloud computing arm said it…

Just a coincidence or a call-back to borks of Windows past? Bork!Bork!Bork! Even after a year of readers sending in photos taken of error screens they’ve seen out and about for The Reg‘s Bork column, the infamous Windows “Blue Screen of Death” has remained a mainstay. However, have you wondered why blue is the colour?……

If you constantly find yourself swapping dongles, Fledging’s Hubble for iPad case can be an essential accessory. …read more Source:: CNet

Google’s new search results offer users a quick way to research a site before clicking on a result. …read more Source:: ZDNet