Month: April 2022

Researchers have disclosed a previously undocumented local file inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in Hashnode, a developer-oriented blogging platform, that could be abused to access sensitive data such as SSH keys, server’s IP address, and other network information. “The LFI originates in a Bulk Markdown Import feature that can be manipulated to provide attackers with unimpeded ability
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Zoom has unveiled new features for its Education users in response to requests from teachers and administrators. These features span Zoom’s chat and meeting offerings, including Virtual Background and Blur for Chromebooks, Anywhere Polls, and Breakout Room enhancements. The new features are designed to engage students in submitting homework assignments, as per the company, and
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Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) publisher Krafton announced that it has made a few adjustments to the skins it launched in the Lamborghini crater late last month. Krafton had collaborated with luxury sportscar brand Lamborghini to bring flashy new vehicles to BGMI and some Lamborghini vehicle skins were claimable through Lucky Spin. Furthermore, the South Korean
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A new traffic direction system (TDS) called Parrot has been spotted leveraging tens of thousands of compromised websites to launch further malicious campaigns. “The TDS has infected various web servers hosting more than 16,500 websites, ranging from adult content sites, personal websites, university sites, and local government sites,” Avast researchers Pavel Novák and Jan Rubín
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Epic Games raised $2 billion (roughly Rs. 15,200 crore) from Sony and the family-owned holding company behind the Lego Group on Monday, valuing the Fortnite creator at $31.5 billion (roughly Rs. 2,39,415 crore). Sony, an existing investor, and the Kirkbi investment company each invested $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,600 crore), Epic said, with the fundraising to help advance
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Microsoft last week announced that it intends to make generally available a feature called Autopatch as part of Windows Enterprise E3 in July 2022. “This service will keep Windows and Office software on enrolled endpoints up-to-date automatically, at no additional cost,” said Lior Bela, senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, in a post last week.
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NASA scientists have found planets where the temperature goes past 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (roughly 1650 degrees Celsius), enough to melt even titanium. During their studies of ultra-hot exoplanets, teams of astronomers working with the NASA Hubble Telescope reported on WASP-178b, an exoplanet 1300 light-years away.  Using NASA’s iconic Hubble Space Telescope, the astronomers found that
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