Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it said could have…
WhatsApp and other messaging apps have an option in their settings that allows you to automatically save received photos to your iPhone. This can mean that, after a while, your photo library turns into a…
TL;DR: Skip recurring Microsoft 365 fees with a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows, now $27.97 through November 1 (MSRP $219.99). If you’d rather avoid another annual software bill, Microsoft Office Professional…
TL;DR: Plan and track projects on your PC with a Microsoft Project Professional 2024 lifetime license, now $49.97 (reg. $1,129) until November 1. Cloud project management tools usually charge per user, per month, and that…
Ravie LakshmananOct 24, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two vulnerabilities impacting Collabora Online Built-in CODE Server and Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) to its Known Exploited…
Diplomatic organizations in Central Asia have been targeted by a sophisticated new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackX. The activity, which singled out diplomatic entities in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in early 2026,…
Swati KhandelwalOct 23, 2026Vulnerability / Software Security Ruby has released versions 4.0.9, 3.4.12, and 3.3.13 to fix three bugs in Onigmo, the regular expression engine built into the language. The bugs lie behind four critical…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Central to the operation is an “Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain Framework” referred to…
Microsoft’s PowerToys are a free collection of utilities that add extra features and customization options to Windows. It’s a bit like a tool drawer, as PCWorld explains here. The latest release (Version 0.102) introduces a…
These days we never really know when Apple laptops are going to go on sale. Well, we found a good one today. Ahead of Black Friday, Apple’s M5 MacBook Air is down to $1,149 at…