Month: May 2023
HP has found an exciting new way to DRM your printer!
Amazon’s No. 1 bestselling printer is the HP Deskjet 2755e. It’s not hard to see why. For just $85, you get a wireless color printer, scanner, and six months of free ink. It also comes with HP Plus, one of the most dastardly schemes Big Inkjet has ever unleashed. I’m…
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Up to 1.5 million WordPress sites could be hit by this security flaw – so patch up now
Hackers are reportedly using an Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw in a WordPress plugin to target thousands of websites, experts have warned. Cybersecurity researchers from Defiant discovered the flaw in Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner, a WP cookie consent plugin with more than 40,000 active installations. The attackers could use…
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Barracuda warns users about possible email compromise attacks – here’s what you need to know
Email and network security solutions provider Barracuda has reached out to a number of firms that were targeted via a zero-day vulnerability found in some of the company’s appliances. The company recently found a zero-day vulnerability in its Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-2868, is described as…
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The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season forecast is ‘near-normal’ — but there’s a wild card
After a few years of heightened risk, the Atlantic hurricane season is shaping up to look pretty average for 2023. That’s thanks to an unusually long-lasting weather pattern called La Niña finally ending, with its counterpart, El Niño, expected to soon develop. The caveat is that there’s more uncertainty in…
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Twitch is raising the price of Turbo, its monthly subscription that removes ads
Twitch is raising the monthly price of Twitch Turbo, its monthly subscription that lets you pay to remove most ads, gives you additional emoticons, and more, in the US and many countries. In the US, it’s jumping from $8.99 to $11.99, and you can see prices for other countries in…
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GitLab releases emergency security patch, tells users to update immediately
GitLab has published a fix for a critical security vulnerability found in two of its products, with users told to apply the patch immediately. GitLab is a DevOps software package allowing users to develop, secure, and operate software used by developer teams that need to manage their code remotely, and…
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