Month: February 2025
DeepSeek blocked from app stores in South Korea
South Korea privacy watchdog has temporarily halted downloads of DeepSeek DeepSeek is working with authorities to get compliant Latest in a series of privacy concerns raised about AI chatbots South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has temporarily halted new downloads of Chinese-owned AI chatbot DeepSeek. Reports from TechCrunch confirm…
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New patch for Windows 11 24H2 reportedly plays havoc with File Explorer, and some folks are claiming it’s broken their PC
Windows 11 patch is causing problems with File Explorer for some This means that some – or most – folders on the desktop are failing to open There are also reports of installation failures and PCs failing to boot Microsoft’s latest update for Windows 11 has thrown some more spanners…
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Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS sees authentication bypass under attack from hackers
Palo Alto Networks fixes authentication bypass PAN-OS flaw A day after the patch was released, criminals started looking for vulnerable endpoints The flaw allows them to run different PHP scripts A vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks firewalls is being abused in in-the-wild attacks, researchers are saying. The company recently found,…
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Amazon EC2 instances under fire from whoAMI attacks potentially giving hackers code execution access
A flaw named WhoAMI was found in Amazon Machine Image It allows threat actors to gain RCE abilities on people’s AWS accounts A fix has been released, but many users are still yet to update Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are potentially vulnerable to a name confusion attack called “whoAMI”,…
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WordPress Foundation bid for greater trademark control halted, adding to more legal setbacks for CEO Matt Mullenweg
Unprotected.org successfully petitions USPTO against the application for Hosted WordPress and Managed WordPress However this is not an absolute denial for the trademarks Move leads some to call Matt Mullenweg’s WordPress leadership into question Since September 2024, WordPress, led by Matthew Mullenweg, has been locked in a battle with WP…
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The war on DEI is a smoke screen
Violent metaphors abound for what’s happening in Washington: Elon Musk and his allies have taken a “slash-and-burn” approach to the government and a “sledgehammer” to government institutions, doing away with supposed waste and excess while leaving the fundamental structure intact. All of this is being done with the stated goal…
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