Month: February 2025
Google has stopped selling the Chromecast with Google TV – but there’s no way I’m replacing mine
Google has stopped selling the Chromecast with Google TV The gadget made its debut in September 2020 An upgrade is available in the form of the Google TV Streamer Four-and-a-half years after making its debut, the Chromecast with Google TV is no longer being sold by Google – joining products…
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“We will never build a backdoor” – Apple kills its iCloud’s end-to-end encryption feature in the UK
Apple has announced it is withdrawing its Advanced Data Protection feature from the UK The decision comes after the UK Government requested an encryption backdoor New users will be unable to access the feature, with existing users losing functionality in the future As of today, February 21, 2025, people in…
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Top US mineral firm hit by cyberattack that saw thieves steal $500,000
NioCorp has notified the SEC of a cyberattack It was tricked into sending a payment to the wrong account It notified law enforcement and is trying to recover the funds NioCorp Developments, a Canadian mineral exploration firm operating in Nebraska, has reported suffering a cyberattack in which it lost half…
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Meze Audio’s beautiful new wired headphones have a new kind of planar magnetic driver, hand-finished in Ukraine
Meze Audio unveils new open-back headphones in a premium finish The manufacturer promises ‘breakthrough’ in planar magnetic drivers ‘Luxurious’ materials suitable for a £1,850 / $2,000 (around AU$3,100) price Meze Audio, a Romanian headphones manufacturer behind some of the best planar magnetic headphones available today, claims its new POET model…
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Salt Typhoon hackers used this clever technique to attack US networks
Cisco reveals Salt Typhoon used CVE-2018-0171 to breach target networks It needed login credentials, first The attackers are highly sophisticated and well-funded, Cisco said Chinese state-sponsored threat actor Salt Typhoon was abusing a vulnerability in the Smart Install feature of Cisco IOS software and Cisco IOS XE software to compromise…
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Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands
Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them…
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