Month: February 2022

Facebook-parent Meta saw investors flee on Thursday rather than buckle-up for what could be a long ride towards the firm’s metaverse vision for the internet’s future. While the tech titan has previously seen shares climb despite fines, regulatory threats, misinformation woes and harassment troubles — this time they plummeted in what one analyst called “a
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday published an Industrial Controls Systems Advisory (ICSA) warning of multiple vulnerabilities in the Airspan Networks Mimosa equipment that could be abused to gain remote code execution, create a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, and obtain sensitive information. “Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to
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Handy Geng, a Chinese electronics handyman and influencer, have created a massive power bank with 27,000,000mAh capacity. Geng posted a video on YouTube in January, where he detailed the process of building the power bank. He added a cheeky caption: “It seems everyone else has a bigger power bank than mine. I’m not so happy
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Iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest said on Thursday he is launching criminal proceedings against Meta’s Facebook in an Australian court, alleging that it breached anti-money laundering laws and its platform is used to scam Australians. Forrest, Australia’s richest man and chairman of Fortescue Metals Group, said he was taking the action to stop people losing
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An ongoing search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning attack campaign has been observed abusing trust in legitimate software utilities to trick users into downloading BATLOADER malware on compromised machines. “The threat actor used ‘free productivity apps installation’ or ‘free software development tools installation’ themes as SEO keywords to lure victims to a compromised website and to
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A US intelligence agency said Wednesday that its newest spy satellite successfully launched into orbit atop a reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The SpaceX rocket took off at 12:27 pm local time (01:57am IST on February 3) from the Vandenberg Air Force base in California, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which is in charge of
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South Korea’s telecommunications regulator wants better compliance plans from Apple and Alphabet’s Google before finalising rules for a law banning app store operators from forcing software developers to use their payments systems, officials said on Thursday. South Korea passed the law, an amendment to the Telecommunication Business Act, last year. The rules, due to be
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Cisco has patched multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting its RV Series routers that could be weaponized to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary code on affected systems, while also warning of the existence of proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code targeting some of these bugs. Three of the 15 flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-20699, CVE-2022-20700, and CVE-2022-20707, carry the
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