Month: November 2024
Worrying WordPress plugin security flaw could let hackers hijack your site
LiteSpeed Cache, an immensely popular WordPress plugin for site performance optimization, suffered from a vulnerability which allowed threat actors to gain admin status. With such elevated privileges, they would be able to perform all sorts of malicious activities on the compromised websites. According to researchers from Patchstack, the vulnerability was…
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Activo P1 Review: Wired Sound, Tired Looks
Activo’s P1 is a decent portable music player, but it looks pretty bland. Source
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The AI garage door mystery
You just left your house. As you peel out of the driveway and tear down the street in the coolest way possible, your garage door… well, what does it do? The answer’s probably nothing, and that feels like the wrong answer. The smart home was supposed to have fixed this…
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Microsoft reveals major Chinese botnet is attacking users across the world
A major Chinese botnet called Quad7 is being utilized to mount password spray attacks against organizations in the west, Microsoft experts have warned. In a new report, the company’s researchers say the group, called Storm-0940, then use the passwords to establish persistence, steal even more credentials, and ultimately engage in…
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What voting machine companies are doing to avoid another 2020
Ed Smith still remembers the weeks after Election Day 2020. The elections compliance expert worked for voting technology provider Smartmatic at the time: a mostly low-profile company that had supplied ballot-marking devices to Los Angeles County. As the polls reported their vote counts, though, then-President Donald Trump lost to challenger…
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LG Ultragear 34GS95QE Curved OLED Gaming Monitor Review: Big Curve
This is one of the most curved ultrawide displays I’ve tried, and that curvature makes all the difference. Source
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