Why you shouldn’t buy a laptop based purely on its specs
When buying a laptop, we tend to think there’s no stronger indication about how it’s going to perform than its specs sheet. We put so much emphasis on it in our quest to find the…
November 2024
November 2024
9 things you realize when you first start using a VPN
Modern VPNs are designed for everyone, from first-time novices to IT professionals. Not only can just about anyone benefit from using a VPN, but they also come with a few not so obvious upsides—and one…
iPad mini (A17 Pro) review: A little faster, a little ‘smarter’
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Fast CPU and graphics Support for Apple Intelligence Cons Not much different from the 6th-gen iPad mini it replaces from 2021 Our Verdict The iPad mini is still a…
Leveraging Wazuh for Zero Trust security
Zero Trust security changes how organizations handle security by doing away with implicit trust while continuously analyzing and validating access requests. Contrary to perimeter-based security, users within an environment are not automatically trusted upon gaining…
How Apple learned to stop worrying and laugh at the Microsoft Zune
Apple released its quarterly results last week and tl;dr: numbers make my eyes glaze over, charts just make me want pie, it’s doing just fine. It occurs to the Macalope that younger readers may not…
Synology Urges Patch for Critical Zero-Click RCE Flaw Affecting Millions of NAS Devices
Nov 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Security Taiwanese network-attached storage (NAS) appliance maker Synology has addressed a critical security flaw impacting DiskStation and BeePhotos that could lead to remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2024-10443 and…
Malware Campaign Uses Ethereum Smart Contracts to Control npm Typosquat Packages
Nov 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Blockchain An ongoing campaign is targeting npm developers with hundreds of typosquat versions of their legitimate counterparts in an attempt to trick them into running cross-platform malware. The attack is…
Canadian Suspect Arrested Over Snowflake Data Breach and Extortion Attacks
Nov 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Cybercrime Canadian law enforcement authorities have arrested an individual who is suspected to have conducted a series of hacks stemming from the breach of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake…
Google Warns of Actively Exploited CVE-2024-43093 Vulnerability in Android System
Nov 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Vulnerability Google has warned that a security flaw impacting its Android operating system has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-43093, has been described…
New Zemeckis film used AI to de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright
On Friday, TriStar Pictures released Here, a $50 million Robert Zemeckis-directed film that used real time generative AI face transformation techniques to portray actors Tom Hanks and Robin Wright across a 60-year span, marking one…