Month: September 2023

Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and CEO of blockchain firm ConsenSys. Riccardo Savi | Getty Images for Concordia Summit The co-founder of Ethereum, Joseph Lubin, said “clear heads will prevail” as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission continues to dispute with crypto firms in court over whether crypto tokens are considered securities. “I anticipate that,
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Sep 14, 2023THNVulnerability / Hacking A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in N-Able’s Take Control Agent that could be exploited by a local unprivileged attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. Tracked as CVE-2023-27470 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue relates to a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability, which, when successfully exploited, could be leveraged
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iPhone 15 series of smartphones was launched on Tuesday with a handful of noteworthy hardware upgrades over the company’s previous models. At its ‘Wonderlust’ launch event, Apple announced a new feature that expands the functionality of the ‘Emergency SOS via satellite’ feature that was introduced with the iPhone 14 series of smartphones last year. Dubbed
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Sep 13, 2023THNVulnerability / Data Security More details have emerged about a set of now-patched cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in the Microsoft Azure HDInsight open-source analytics service that could be weaponized by a threat actor to carry out malicious activities. “The identified vulnerabilities consisted of six stored XSS and two reflected XSS vulnerabilities, each of
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About two weeks before the release of Immortals of Aveum, EA’s new first-person spell-shooter action title, Baldur’s Gate III released to rapturous acclaim. Larian Studios’ Dungeons & Dragons-based RPG – with its deeply rewarding quests, robust gameplay systems, and its evocative characters and storylines – became a global phenomenon, racking up over 800,000 concurrent players
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WhatsApp Channels — the Meta-owned messaging service’s latest feature aimed at increasing engagement on the platform — is rolling out to users in India and several other countries. Designed as a one-way broadcast tool, these channels allow users to share updates with a large number of users on WhatsApp. At the moment, users can search
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Unlike other companies that are attempting significant transformations with artificial intelligence, Apple is using the emerging technology to improve basic functions in its new gadgets. Without using the words “artificial intelligence” to describe the emerging technology, Apple showcased a new line of iPhones and a new watch that included improved semiconductor designs that power the
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Sep 13, 2023THNKubernetes / Cloud Security Three interrelated high-severity security flaws discovered in Kubernetes could be exploited to achieve remote code execution with elevated privileges on Windows endpoints within a cluster. The issues, tracked as CVE-2023-3676, CVE-2023-3893, and CVE-2023-3955, carry CVSS scores of 8.8 and impact all Kubernetes environments with Windows nodes. Fixes for the
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has signed a memorandum of understanding with ISRO and IN-SPACe to support space-tech innovations through cloud computing. The collaboration with ISRO and the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (IN-SPACe) is aimed at giving space startups, research institutes and students access to cloud technologies through AWS Activate for new solutions
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Harun Ozalp | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Hate speech continues to flourish on the messaging service formerly known as Twitter, according to The Center for Countering Digital Hate. The CCDH said Wednesday that X fails to remove posts that contain hate speech despite being notified that the content violates the company’s current hateful conduct
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