Day: February 23, 2021

Daycare Webcam Service Exposes 12,000 User Accounts  

NurseryCam suspends service across 40 daycare centers until a security fix is in place. …read more Source:: Threatpost


10K Targeted in Phishing Attacks Spoofing FedEx, DHL Express

The two campaigns aimed to steal victims’ business email account credentials by posing as the shipping companies. …read more Source:: DarkReading


IBM Squashes Critical Remote Code-Execution Flaw

A critical-severity buffer-overflow flaw that affects IBM Integration Designer could allow remote attackers to execute code. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Plasma Discharges Show You Where the Radiation Is

Depending on the context of the situation, the staccato clicks or chirps of a Geiger counter can be either comforting or alarming. But each pip is only an abstraction, an aural indication of when a particle or ray of ionizing radiation passed through a detector. Knowing where that happened might be important, too, under the…


Microsoft to increase integration between Teams, Outlook, and Dynamics 365

Microsoft is expected to step up its integration of Microsoft 365 productivity services and Dynamics 365 CRM/ERP ones with some new integrations between the two product families. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Vaccines Adapted for Variants Will Not Need Lengthy Testing, FDA Says

The Food and Drug Administration said this week that vaccine developers would not need to conduct lengthy randomized controlled trials for vaccines that have been adapted to protect against concerning coronavirus variants. From a report: The recommendations, which call for small trials more like those required for annual flu vaccines, would greatly accelerate the review…


Samsung shows off next-generation big-pixel camera sensor tech, coming to an Android phone near you

Good chance a phone you buy this year will use this photography tech Samsung today announced its latest smartphone sensor tech, the ISOCELL GN2. Already in production, this image sensor promises improved low-light performance over its predecessors, despite supporting a high (50MP) megapixel count.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Google’s Password Checkup Feature Coming To Android

Android users can now take advantage of the Password Checkup feature that Google first introduced in its Chrome web browser in late 2019, the OS maker announced today. From a report: On Android, the Password Checkup feature is now part of the “Autofill with Google” mechanism, which the OS uses to select text from a…


Paul Taylor Opened the Lines of Telecommunication for the Hearing-Impaired

These days, nearly everyone communicates through some kind of keyboard, whether they are texting, emailing, or posting on various internet discussion forums. Talking over the phone is almost outmoded at this point. But only a few decades ago, the telephone was king of real-time communication. It was and still is a great invention, but unfortunately…


Augmenting SMB Defense Strategies With MITRE ATT&CK: A Primer

Any organization can use MITRE ATT&CK as a force multiplier, but it’s especially valuable for small ones. …read more Source:: DarkReading