Windows 10 Feature Update: Here’s What To Expect In The Next Release While the Windows 10 Spring 2021 update is going to be a minor service pack style-like with a strong focus on quality improvements for enterprise customers, reports have suggested that Windows 10 version 21H2 is going to be Read more…
WordPress May Automatically Disable Google FLoC On Websites WordPress announced today that they are treating Google’s new FLoC tracking technology as a security concern and may block it by default on WordPress sites. For some time, browsers have begun to increasingly block third-party browser cookies [1, 2, 3] used by advertisers for Read more…
Discord Nitro Gift Codes Now Demanded As Ransomware Payments In a novel approach to ransom demands, a new ransomware calling itself ‘NitroRansomware’ encrypts victim’s files and then demands a Discord Nitro gift code to decrypt files. While Discord is free, they offer a Nitro subscription add-on for $9.99 per month Read more…
US Sanctions Cryptocurrency Addresses Linked To Russian Cyberactivities The US government sanctioned this week twenty-eight cryptocurrency addresses allegedly associated with entities or individuals linked to Russian cyberattacks or election interference. The US government introduced these sanctions in an executive order by President Biden that formally announced that the Russian SVR, and its Read more…
Google Is Adding Its Dinosaur Game As An iPhone Widget Google is bringing its Dinosaur Game to Apple iPhones as an iOS widget that you can add to your home screen. When Google Chrome cannot access the Internet, it displays a Dinosaur Game where you jump and duck under obstacles Read more…
Twitter Is Suffering From Another Worldwide Outage Today Twitter is suffering a worldwide outage that started last night and is continuing into Saturday morning with erratic behavior and features partially working. The issues people are experiencing include searches not working, content not loading with a spinning circle, images not displaying, Read more…
Microsoft Fixes Windows 10 Bug That Can Corrupt NTFS Drives Microsoft has fixed a bug that could allow a threat actor to create specially crafted downloads that crash Windows 10 simply by opening the folder where they are downloaded. In January, we reported on a new Windows 10 vulnerability discovered Read more…
Ryuk Ransomware Operation Updates Hacking Techniques Recent attacks from Ryuk ransomware operators show that the actors have a new preference when it comes to gaining initial access to the victim network. The trend observed in attacks this year reveals a predilection towards targeting hosts with remote desktop connections exposed on Read more…
Google Chrome’s New Feature Lets You Easily Share Selected Text Google makes it easy to share text with friends and colleagues with a new Chrome 90 feature that lets you create links to selected text on a web page. This new feature is rolling out now in Chrome 90 and Read more…
Major BGP Leak Disrupts Thousands Of Networks Globally A large BGP routing leak that occurred last night disrupted the connectivity for thousands of major networks and websites around the world. Although the BGP routing leak occurred in Vodafone’s autonomous network (AS55410) based in India, it has impacted U.S. companies, including Google, according to sources. Read more…
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