Month: September 2024
Kaos is the new king on Netflix – here are 3 more mythology series to watch next including one with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes
Netflix’s new Jeff Goldblum show, Kaos, features the actor playing god: quite literally, because he’s the Greek god Zeus. The show is a very modern spin on one of mythology’s oldest characters, and while the reviews have been decidedly mixed Kaos looks like it’s another big hit for the streamer.…
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Critical infrastructure sustained 13 cyber attacks per second in 2023
Research from KnowBe4 reported that critical infrastructure sustained more than 420 million cyber attacks between January 2023 and January 2024, a rise of 30% from the previous year. Physical frameworks such as power grids, transportation, and communications networks are particularly at risk due to the disruption any failures would cause.…
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170 million strong data leak traced to US data broker
Cybernews researchers have uncovered a colossal data leak believed to be related to People Data Labs (PDL), a San Francisco-based data broker, containing over 170 million records. Breached data includes sensitive information like full names, phone numbers, emails, location, skills, professional summaries, education history and employment history, putting those affected…
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Tesla has a not-so-secret plan to replace a fundamental-but-flawed building block of the Internet — Musk’s Exascale DOJO supercomputer will use TTPoE instead of the universal TCP and wants the world to embrace it
Tesla is looking to replace the widely-used Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) with its own offering. The company says Tesla Transport Protocol over Ethernet (TTPoE) is designed to support high-speed, low-latency communication, especially in environments where reliable data transfer is essential. TTPoE, integral to Tesla’s DOJO supercomputer, is optimized for the…
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New Meta VR headset in FCC certification teases an imminent Quest 3S launch
Meta Connect 2024 is fast approaching, and one of the announcements we’ll almost certainly get on September 25 will be for the Meta Quest 3S. We not only saw a batch of details from regular leakers, Meta itself leaked the headset’s existence twice in recent months, and now FCC and…
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Chinese organizations are being hit by Cobalt Strike malware from within China
Cybersecurity researchers from Securonix discovered a new threat campaign that included phishing, DLL sideloading, and Cobalt Strike beacons, all using Tencent’s infrastructure, and targeting Chinese entities. Tencent is the largest and most popular cloud service provider in China. Apparently, the group (which has not been identified and doesn’t seem to…
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