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Background image via Guido Bohne (CC-BY-SA-2.0) For more than a year, a group of security researchers and system administrators have banded together to fight back against Emotet, today’s most active and dangerous malware operation. By working together, the Cryptolaemus group has seriously hindered Emotet operations. Daily, the group publishes updates on its website and Twitter […] More
The coronavirus outbreak may speed up the evolution of work and ultimately retool multiple industries as everything from conferences to collaboration to sales and commercial real estate are rethought. China combatted coronavirus with quarantines and school and business closures. The supply chain still hasn’t recovered, and the parade of companies issuing profit warnings has picked […] More
It is alarming how many packages do not get to their intended destination. Almost three out of four packages are stolen during the day from outside the house whilst the homeowner is at work. Alarmingly, over one in five (22%) package thefts happen while the homeowner is actually home. A whopping 11 million people in […] More
If you had an account with businesses such as Marriott, Under Armour, Panera Bread, T-Mobile, or Facebook, amongst others, there is a chance that you could be among the millions of people whose email addresses, passwords, passport number, credit card numbers, and billing address were exposed unlawfully. In 2018, roughly five billion people had their […] More
techrepublic cheat sheet Apache Tomcat servers released in the last 13 years are vulnerable to a bug named Ghostcat that can allow hackers to take over unpatched systems. Discovered by Chinese cybersecurity firm Chaitin Tech, Ghostcat is a flaw in the Tomcat AJP protocol. AJP stands for Apache JServ Protocol and is a performance-optimized version […] More
Insecure? Or is it Google who’s insecure? Here on the left coast, we believe in passive aggression. We gush over how open, friendly and humanistic we are. This gives us permission to dismiss everything and everyone that makes us uncomfortable. With deeply sincere words of distancing. Or even heartfelt ghosting. I’m curiously moved, therefore, by […] More
Facebook, Google, and Twitter have mutinied over the strict censorship rules due to be implemented by Pakistan and are threatening to leave the country altogether. As reported by the New York Times, the tech giants’ anger is directed at Pakistan’s Citizens Protection Rules (Against Online Harm), a recently-revealed set of tight censorship demands. The rules […] More
Employment search site Indeed’s ‘best jobs of 2020’ list is totally dominated by tech roles, which rule in number of postings and generally offer higher average base salaries. Seven of the top 10 jobs in the list of best jobs in 2020 in the US are in tech, with the exception of real-estate agents, […] More
