Involta partners with tech startup HacWare
Involta announced a partnership with HacWare, an AI-driven cybersecurity awareness and training SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) product that combines threat intelligence...
Internet shutdown cases decrease by 14% in the first half of 2022
Internet disruptions and restrictions were recorded in 10 countries, 85% being from India and the Jammu and Kashmir region,...
Xtel launches new data center in New York City market
Xtel Communication announced its third data center in the sought-after New York market. The facility, located in Newark, New...
Weekly round-up: 1 – 5 August
This week, we saw that the notorious cybercriminal group, LockBit is shifting its focus from VMware to Windows. LockBit...
Best 5 open-source firewalls
Firewalls are one of the most important parts of a network security system. In simplest terms, a firewall is...
Flatpak app of the week: Warp
Transferring files between devices somehow is still a hassle due to the never-ending attempts of cybercriminals. We just can't...
How to change the default SMTP port for Postfix
If your service provider has blocked port 25, you may need to change it to 587 from your mail...
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[Event] Introduction to Linux and HPC
High-performance computing (HPC) is a technology geared with the power of supercomputers or computer clusters to solve complex problems...
CISA is adding Zimbra vulnerability to the list
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added a new vulnerability found in the Zimbra email suite to its...
Quantum encryption method SIKE was broken by a traditional CPU
To prevent future attacks based on quantum computers, NIST is pushing forward with standardization processes. One of the post-quantum...
Ubuntu 22.04.1’s release delayed until the 11th of August
While the Ubuntu Release Team is working on testing a fix for a bug in Ubuntu 22.04.1 release candidates,...
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Ransomware hackers stole over 30 terabytes data in the first half
Ransomware attacks have been terrorizing businesses of all sizes and industries worldwide. According to the data presented by the Atlas...
Is GitLab going to delete inactive projects from its free tier?
There have been reports about GitLab's free features for individual users that the inactive projects will be deleted. The community...
Google Chrome 104 is released with 27 security fixes
Google has delivered Google Chrome 104 to the stable channel for Windows, macOS, and Linux with significant security patches. 7...
A critical RCE bug was detected in 29 router models from DrayTek
The Trellix Threat Labs Vulnerability Research team has undisclosed an unauthenticated remote code execution bug affecting a total of 29...
Windows Subsystem for Linux 0.65.1 is now available to Windows Insiders
WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) version 0.65.1, a compatibility layer to run Linux operating systems under Windows, has been released...
Amazon’s carbon emissions increased by 18% in 2021
Amazon published its annual sustainability report which shows that the company's carbon emissions increased by 18% in 2021. While the...
New Windows 11 builds deliver improvements for Microsoft Defender
Microsoft launched new Windows 11 builds for the Beta channel which come with some minor features and an improvement for...
Samsung reveals its memory-semantic SSD for AI and ML workloads
Samsung has announced its new SSD storage that aims to deliver additional performance to the table while under AI and...
Hackers cloning GitHub repositories with malware
Software developers stated that they found a malicious URL and a backdoor in over 35.000 copied repositories on GitHub. GitHub...
Oracle has begun to lay off employees in the U.S
Oracle Corp. has started staff reduction within its marketing and customer experience divisions in the U.S, mainly impacting its offices...
GoDaddy reports 2nd quarter results 2022
According to the report published by GoDaddy, the company's revenue increased by 9% year-over-year and net income increased by 93%...
DreamHost outage continues
DreamHost is still having technical issues, referred to as degraded performance, in one of its shared web hosting servers. The...
Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa” is available for download with three flavors
Linux Mint, one of the most popular Linux distributions, has reached version 21. This new version is codenamed Vanessa, and...
WebP support for WordPress is now merged into Core
The performance team of WordPress has finally merged the long-awaited WebP by default feature for the upcoming WordPress 6.1 release....
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS now runs Linux kernel 5.15 LTS under the hood
Canonical, the developer of Ubuntu projects has fixed several vulnerabilities for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS in its...
Snyk introduces its first developer-centric cloud security solution
Snyk unveiled Snyk Cloud, the industry’s first comprehensive Cloud Security Solution designed by and for developers. Snyk's new solution unites...
Kernel scheduler updates for Linux 6.0 submitted
Ingo Molnar submitted the kernel scheduler updates for the next release, Linux Kernel 6.0, which is currently under development. The...
LockBit abusing Windows Defender to load Cobalt Strike
The latest iteration of the notorious RaaS, LockBit 3.0 now uses a legitimate Windows Defender command line tool. LockBit 3.0,...
What is RaaS (Ransomware as a Service)?
What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a type of malware that focuses on preventing victims from accessing the data, such as...
CrowdStrike launches the industry’s first cloud threat hunting service
CrowdStrike has released a new threat hunting service called Falcon OverWatch Cloud Threat Hunting to prevent threats in advance within the...
