Month: January 2023
QNAP urges customers to update now to stay safe from dangerous security flaw
Audio player loading… A new exploit has been discovered that affects QNAP customers running the latest versions of its operating systems: QTS 5.0.1 and QuTS hero h.5.0.1, but don’t worry, apply this patch and you should be good. The vulnerability is said to allow threat actors to inject malicious code,…
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Top password manager denies its entire database can be stolen
Audio player loading… Open-source password manager KeePass has refuted claims that it has a major security flaw allowing for undue access to user password vaults. KeePass is designed primarily for individual use, rather than being a business password manager. It differs from many popular password managers in that it doesn’t…
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Microsoft’s post-layoffs Halo studio is smaller and switching to Unreal Engine
Halo developer 343 Industries lost at least 95 people due to Microsoft’s recent layoffs, and the studio is apparently switching from its proprietary Slipspace engine to Epic Games’ widely used Unreal Engine for future games, Bloomberg reports. The future of Halo has been somewhat up in the air since the…
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Yandex caught scraping Google SEO code
Audio player loading… As TechRadar Pro reported earlier in January 2023, a former Yandex employee with a “political” motive has allegedly leaked a wide-ranging repository of source code for many of the web portal’s products, potentially shedding light on the dark art of search engine optimization. BleepingComputer (opens in new…
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Porsche NFTs aren’t in production anymore, so don’t mint one
Audio player loading… Car manufacturer Porsche has ceased minting a line of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital art with an assigned “owner” in its metadata after just two days following a lack of interest and backlash from crypto enthusiasts, but threat actors are picking up the slack. Reports from BleepingComputer (opens…
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NASA’s Perseverance has completed its cache of Martian samples
NASA’s Perseverance rover has dropped the last of 10 sample tubes onto the surface of Mars, thereby completing humanity’s “first sample depot on another world.” The rover began depositing titanium tubes containing samples of rock and dust six weeks ago as part of the Mars sample return mission to collect…
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