Best smart home products of 2024
The pace of smart home innovation hasn’t slowed a whit in 2024, with new products such as the Amazon Echo Show 21 being unveiled just this week. The better news is that the smart home…
New U.S. DoJ Rule Halts Bulk Data Transfers to Adversarial Nations to Protect Privacy
Dec 31, 2024Ravie LakshmananData Security / Privacy The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has issued a final rule carrying out Executive Order (EO) 14117, which prevents mass transfer of citizens’ personal data to countries of…
The entire Apple TV+ catalog is free to watch this weekend
In just a couple of weeks, “Severance,” Apple’s most popular show not named Ted Lasso will begin its long-awaited second season. And Apple is so excited to mark the occasion, it wants to make sure…
Cue the confetti: Apple has 20 billion reasons to celebrate Google
You’ve gotta love these court cases against major tech companies if only for the discovery and testimony that come out because of them. Turns out Eddy Cue still works at Apple. A few years of…
Shokz Openfit Air review: Lightweight sporty open-air earphones
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Very comfortable to wear Lightweight Open, stress-free sound Our Verdict The Openfit Air lives up to its name and convinces as good sports headphones. The sound is stress-free and…
Chinese APT Exploits BeyondTrust API Key to Access U.S. Treasury Systems and Documents
Dec 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Incident Response The United States Treasury Department said it suffered a “major cybersecurity incident” that allowed suspected Chinese threat actors to remotely access some computers and unclassified documents. “On December…
Misconfigured Kubernetes RBAC in Azure Airflow Could Expose Entire Cluster to Exploitation
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three security weaknesses in Microsoft’s Azure Data Factory Apache Airflow integration that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed an attacker to gain the ability to conduct various covert actions, including data…
US Treasury says China stole documents in ‘major’ cyberattack
The U.S. Treasury told lawmakers in a letter Monday that it was hit by a cyberattack earlier in December, which the department has attributed to Chinese government hackers. In the letter shared with senior U.S.…
Volkswagen leak exposed precise location data on thousands of vehicles across Europe for months
Volkswagen Group’s troubled automotive software unit Cariad left terabytes of customer data on around 800,000 electric Audi, Seat, Skoda, and Volkswagen vehicles exposed to the internet for months, reports Der Spiegel [in German], citing security…
These Apple deals are the perfect way to spend your Amazon holiday gift cards
The gift-giving season may be over but that doesn’t mean we’re not still looking for deals. And we have three today that are perfect for those gift cards you got, with some of the best…