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HOW GOOGLE WORKS: What began in the late 1990s as a research project helmed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students in Stanford University’s Ph.D. program, is now one of the most influential companies in the world: Google. At first, the students’ goal was to make an efficient search engine that gave users relevant links in response to search requests. While search is still Google’s core purpose, the company now provides services and goods ranging from (among many) email and photo storage to productivity software (the Google Docs suite), the internet browser...
Can metaverse re-shape Cybersecurity in 2022 as we know it “Metaverse” is a much-hyped concept that is being mentioned more and more frequently in conversations regarding technology and development. Although the idea has recently gained popularity, it is not entirely new. It first made an appearance in Neal Stephenson’s science fiction novel Snow Crash and since then, there have been many versions of the metaverse, especially as the gaming industry caught on to it. These versions have nurtured the idea, as evident through games like Second Life, Eve Online, or even GTA...
Western Digital and Kioxia cut production at two plants in Japan after contamination was discovered in raw materials, which will likely lead to price hikes and further strain on the already-taxed supply chain. Western Digital and Kioxia are some of the largest producers of flash memory in the industry. Contaminated materials in plants at Yokkaichi and Kitakami have led to limited production of flash memory, which is expected to impact the rest of the industry. According to a report from Bloomberg, it isn’t clear how extensive the disruption will be. Western Digital...
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) urges organizations to improve cybersecurity due to the risk of imminent destructive cyberattacks from Russia-linked APT groups. The NCSC is investigating recent cyber attacks against entities in Ukraine making parallelism with other attacks preciously attributed to Moscow, such as NotPetya (2017) and cyber attacks against Georgia. “UK organisations are being urged to bolster their cyber security resilience in response to the malicious cyber incidents in and around Ukraine. ” reads the alert published by the NCSC. While the tension between Ukraine and Russia is rising, the risks of...
As the political crisis in Ukraine deepens, warfare is evolving with the times. Hacktivism is not dead, although it hasn’t been in the news quite as much as financially driven ransomware incidents these past few years. In an apparent bid to stop a Russian arms build-up near the Ukrainian border, a “pro-democracy” hacktivist group claims to have hacked the Belarusian railway system—allegedly one of the conduits for tanks and weaponry into the region. The incident comes as Russian and NATO-allied forces continue to spar over the political future of Ukraine, heightening the risk...
PrinterLogic has released security updates to address a total of nine vulnerabilities in Web Stack and Virtual Appliance, including three security defects that carry “high severity” ratings. Tracked as CVE-2021-42631, CVE-2021-42635, and CVE-2021-42638, the three high-risk bugs can be exploited launch remote code execution attacks, according to an advisory from the Paranoids vulnerability research team. All three security flaws carry a CVSS base score of 8.1, but each is a different type of vulnerability: CVE-2021-42631 is an object injection bug, CVE-2021-42635 is a hardcoded APP_KEY issue, while CVE-2021-42638 is described as miscellaneous...
Fines issued for GDPR non-compliance increased sevenfold from 2020 to 2021, analysis shows In its latest annual GDPR summary, international law firm DLA Piper focuses attention in two areas: fines imposed and the evolving effect of the Schrems II ruling of 2020. Fines are increasing and Schrems II issues are becoming more complex. GDPR fines Fines issued for GDPR non-compliance increased significantly (sevenfold) in 2021, from €158.5 million (approximately $180 million) in 2020 to just under €1.1 billion (approximately $1.25 billion) in 2021. The largest fines came from Luxembourg against...
Since December 2021, a growing trend in phishing campaigns has emerged that uses malicious PowerPoint documents to distribute various types of malware, including remote access and information-stealing trojans. According to a report by Netskope’s Threat Labs shared with Bleeping Computer before publication, the actors are using PowerPoint files combined with legitimate cloud services that host the malware payloads. The families deployed in the tracked campaign are Warzone (aka AveMaria) and AgentTesla, two powerful RATs and info-stealers that target many applications, while the researchers also noticed the dropping of cryptocurrency...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won the first stage of his effort to overturn a U.K. ruling that opened the door for his extradition to U.S. to stand trial on espionage charges. Assange Wins First Stage The High Court in London gave Assange permission to appeal the case to the U.K. Supreme Court. But the Supreme Court must agree to accept the case before it can move forward. “Make no mistake, we won today in court,” Assange’s fiancee, Stella Moris, said outside the courthouse, noting that he remains in...
Unfixed bug violating the Internet’s most foundational rules is easy to exploit. For the past four months, Apple’s iOS and iPadOS devices and Safari browsers have violated one of the Internet’s most sacrosanct security policies. The violation results from a bug that leaks user identities and browsing activity in real-time. Safari and iOS Data Leaked The same-origin policy is a foundational security mechanism that forbids documents, scripts, or other content loaded from one origin—meaning the protocol, domain name, and port of a given webpage or app—from interacting with resources from other...
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