5 MWC announcements that should have come from Apple
Mobile World Congress was held this week in Barcelona and we understand if it passed you by. While Apple and the iPhone are on everyone’s mind, MWC is primarily an Android show. But there are…
How to turn on Windows built-in ransomware protection
Ransomware is nasty stuff. This type of malware encrypts files on your PC so that you can’t access them—unless you must pay the attacker to unlock the data. In other words, your files are held…
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 16 review: Goes big, falls short
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Attractive folding OLED display Loud, clear speakers Long battery life Cons Folding design is awkward for both tablet and laptop use Tiny touchpad Limited connectivity, no Wi-Fi 7 Performance…
4 Instructive Postmortems on Data Downtime and Loss
More than a decade ago, the concept of the ‘blameless’ postmortem changed how tech companies recognize failures at scale. John Allspaw, who coined the term during his tenure at Etsy, argued postmortems were all about…
New BIFROSE Linux Malware Variant Using Deceptive VMware Domain for Evasion
Mar 01, 2024NewsroomLinux / Cyber Threat Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Linux variant of a remote access trojan (RAT) called BIFROSE (aka Bifrost) that uses a deceptive domain mimicking VMware. “This latest version of…
How to manage Time Machine backups between APFS and HFS+ drives
Apple introduced the APFS (Apple Filing System) file system protocol in macOS Sierra. It’s now the required format for macOS, but it took a while to transition from the former implementation of the HFS+ (Hierarchical…
Five Eyes Agencies Warn of Active Exploitation of Ivanti Gateway Vulnerabilities
Mar 01, 2024NewsroomRootkit / Threat Intelligence The Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance has issued a new cybersecurity advisory warning of cyber threat actors exploiting known security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure…
GitHub Rolls Out Default Secret Scanning Push Protection for Public Repositories
Mar 01, 2024NewsroomDevSecOps / Cybersecurity GitHub on Thursday announced that it’s enabling secret scanning push protection by default for all pushes to public repositories. “This means that when a supported secret is detected in any…
Windows 11 just torpedoed the webcam market with a new feature
Microsoft is working to allow you to use your Android smartphone (or a spare) in place of a webcam, presumably allowing consumers access to high-quality webcams for free. That capability isn’t quite here yet; Microsoft…
HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors
Enlarge / The HP Envy 6020e is one of the printers available for rent. HP launched a subscription service today that rents people a printer, allots them a specific amount of printed pages, and sends…