Day: September 8, 2021

Best buy now, pay later app 2021

Buy now, pay later apps make it easy for consumers to make a large purchase and pay it off in small installments. There are many on the market, but we’ve narrowed this list down to our six favorites. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Spoofing Bug Highlights Cybersecurity for Digital Vaccine Passports

Australian immunization app bug lets attackers fake vaccine status. …read more Source:: Threatpost


3 years, 17 alphas, 2 betas, and over 7,500 commits later, OpenSSL version 3 is here

What have we learned during that time? Quite a bit, it appears The OpenSSL team has released version 3.0 of its eponymous secure communications library after a lengthy gestation period.… …read more Source:: Register


Notorious Russian Ransomware Group ‘REvil’ Has Reappeared

The infamous criminal ransomware group behind the JBS SA cyberattack has returned to the dark web after vanishing this summer. From a report: “REvil,” short for “Ransomware-Evil,” is among the most prolific cyber gangs to hold data for ransom. The group operates from Russia, according to cybersecurity firms and the U.S. government, and is accused…


TeamTNT’s New Tools Target Multiple OS

The attackers are indiscriminately striking thousands of victims worldwide with their new “Chimaera” campaign. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Other Blood Companies Are Still Pissed About Theranos

What is was like competing with — and dealing with the wreckage of — the most infamous startup in the world. From a report: Theranos’ collapse was as public as it gets for a Silicon Valley unicorn, beginning in 2015 with a widely read series of articles by former Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou,…


Google plays catch-up with JSON support for distributed RDBMS Spanner

Nice if you want to store extra attributes with changing relational schema, but not a threat to NoSQL specialists Google Cloud has introduced support for JSON documents in its distributed RDBMS Spanner – a move the Chocolate Factory says offers advantages in adding new data attributes without changing the schema.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Amazon’s Cashierless Tech is Coming To Whole Foods Next Year

Amazon is bringing its cashierless “Just Walk Out” technology to two new Whole Foods locations next year, the company has announced. From a report: One of the stores will be in Washington, DC, while the second will be in Sherman Oaks, California. When they’re open, customers will have the option of paying at a traditional…


Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac do battle in HBO’s raw Scenes from a Marriage – CNET

Review: Hagai Levi’s adaptation of the Ingmar Bergman classic feels suffocating at times, but the co-stars are brilliant as a couple oscillating between love and hate. …read more Source:: CNet


Council culture: Software test leads to absurd local planning SNAFU

Swale Borough Council faced with hefty bill for junior IT hero’s whimsical afternoon’s work A borough council in the English county of Kent is fuming after a software test on the council’s website led to five nonsensical dummy planning application documents being mistakenly published as legally binding decisions.… …read more Source:: TheRegister