Another vulnerability has been discovered in Intel processors. It's called Register File Data Sampling (RFDS), but Intel revealed information about it after it released a CPU microcode fix. Phoronix tests showed that this time, fortunately, there was no significant decrease in performance. created by DALL-EThe problem affects only the small...
A Lincoln, Nebraska woman is accused of taking advantage of a gas station failure to fill her car and other vehicles with more than 28,000 liters of free fuel between November 2022 and June 2023. Lincoln police arrested 45-year-old Dawn Thompson and charged her with stealing gas by exploiting a...
Samsung has released the second update for its flagship Galaxy S24 line. But if the first was large-scale and brought many improvements to the system (along with bug fixes and shortcomings), then the second concerns exclusively security: the update contains the March Android security updates. The second update has already...
A campaign to raise funds for an unusual Ovrdrive USB flash drive has launched on the Crowd Supply crowdfunding platform. It stands out for its unusual implementation of data protection with the potential for integrating self-destruction technology. The product is an open source project, so you can customize it if...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Tuesday that a message sent from the SEC’s social media platform X/Twitter account announcing the approval of a long-awaited bitcoin exchange-traded fund was “unauthorized” and that the agency’s account was hacked. The price of Bitcoin immediately soared to almost $48,000, but then dropped...
Apple’s AirDrop service has been hacked by a Chinese government agency, allowing authorities to identify senders who share “inappropriate content.” This was initially reported by the authoritative publication Bloomberg, but there is also a statement from the government agency itself. AirDrop is a special service from Apple that allows you...
It took Microsoft fifteen months to fix an issue with File Explorer in Windows 11 that was causing it to simply come to the foreground without warning. In other words, the user could be doing one task or another on the computer, and Explorer would suddenly appear on top of...
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo admitted that not all American chipmakers are happy with the sanctions against China, since the restrictions lead to a loss of profit. “I know there are heads of chip companies sitting in the room who are a little annoyed by what I did because [они]...
The other day, a rather curious event happened on the market quite quietly. Nothing has introduced the Nothing Chats application, which could be called just another instant messenger, but the point is that this application actually allows Android owners to exchange messages with iPhone owners via iMessage. And a few...
Google has introduced a new version of the Titan Security Key. The new product is already available for purchase at a price of $30. In its press release, Google from the very first lines focuses on the fact that this solution allows you to abandon passwords. Eliminate passwords and prevent...
As part of the Pwn2Own event to find vulnerabilities in commercial products, white hat hackers managed to hack the Samsung Galaxy S23 twice in one day. But this smartphone is considered one of the most secure in terms of software. According to the Zero Day Initiative, the Star Labs SG...
This week, firmware was released for the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE smartphone in Europe and the USA, which should make the device more stable and safer. The new software includes the October Android security update, which patches 12 holes in the system, as well as a number of general improvements...
Fixing the recently found AMD Inception vulnerability, as shown by the first tests, leads to a huge decrease in performance. The authors of the Phoronix portal tested the AMD Epyc 7763 CPU with a new firmware designed to fix the vulnerability, and found that in a number of tasks there...
Microsoft has released an update to Microsoft Defender, the built-in antivirus solution for Windows operating systems. Generated by the Midjourney neural networkUpdate number 1.395.318.0 for Windows 10 and Windows 11 adds detection of various Trojans, ransomware and backdoors, and also brings “critical” performance fixes that will improve PC performance, but...
The Iraqi Ministry of Communications has announced that it has blocked the popular messaging app Telegram for national security reasons and in order to preserve the integrity of the personal data of users who were allegedly mistreated by the app. The app is widely used in Iraq for messaging and...
A new vulnerability was discovered in AMD processors, which they called Zenbleed. It was discovered by Google Information Security specialists. Photo: Fritchenz FritzZenbleed affects AMD processors based on the Zen 2 architecture in all variants. That is, first of all, these are Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs, but also Epyc Rome,...