Month: December 2020
GoDaddy phishing ‘test’ teased employees with a fake holiday bonus
They were promised a $650 holiday bonus from their company. It wasn’t an act of corporate goodwill, though, but a particularly tone deaf phishing test. And instead of extra cash, those who failed were assigned extra work. That’s what happened to arou… Source
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Not even 5G could rescue smartphone sales in 2020
This was going to be the year of 5G. It was going to be the year the next-generation wireless technology helped reverse some troubling macro trends for the industry — or at the very least helped stem the bleeding some. But the best laid plans, and all that. With about…
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SolarWinds hackers also targeted security firm CrowdStrike
The group behind the SolarWinds hack also tried to compromise a top security firm. CrowdStrike now says that it too was targeted by the group. According to CrowdStrike, the attempt happened “during a 17-hour period several months ago,” when hackers t… Source
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Warner Bros. believes that theaters will still exist in 2023
Warner Bros. ruffled some feathers when it announced it would release all of its new 2021 movies simultaneously on HBO Max, but the company seems to be betting that theaters won’t become an apocalyptic wasteland. Variety reports that the company plans to release Furiosa, the prequel to Max Max: Fury…
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‘Sons of the Forest’ trailer teases a 2021 release date
Back at the 2019 Game Awards, we got a glimpse at Sons of the Forest, the sequel to cult favorite survival horror game The Forest. It’s been almost exactly a year since we had seen new footage of the game, but this week developer Endnight Games share… Source
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QNAP fixes even more serious security flaws on its NAS devices qnap
QNAP has released a series of new patches which fix multiple high severity vulnerabilities that impact its NAS devices running the QES, QTS and QuTS hero operating systems. In total, this latest round of security updates patch six vulnerabilities that affect older versions of the NAS maker’s FreeBSD, Linux and…
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