Tag: pro
I work from home and these are the best standing desk deals I can find this Black Friday
Sitting for prolonged periods of time has been linked to numerous health issues including obesity, heart disease, and back pain, but for many office workers, they’ve have little choice. Fortunately, the rise of hybrid working has seen considerable growth to the standing desk market, and there are now hundreds of…
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I think Microsoft Azure “Eagle” is probably the most important tech news of 2023 that you haven’t heard of — here’s why
Microsoft Azure’s Eagle system has more computing power than all but two of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, and it’s open to developers to run their applications on — albeit for a hefty price. The Frontier and Aurora systems, which are the two most powerful supercomputers in the…
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Fingerprint authentication is surprisingly easy to bypass – researchers find critical vulnerabilities in Windows Hello
The fingerprint-enabled security systems on many top business laptops around today may not be as ironclad as first thought, new research has claimed. The Microsoft Offensive Research and Security Engineering (MORSE) recently handed over a set research targets to Blackwing Intelligence, tasking it to crack their security. The research targets…
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Even gas pumps aren’t safe from cyberattacks at the moment
An alarming number of gas pumps could be vulnerable to cyberattacks, threatening to cut off driver supply to fuel, new research has claimed. The research team behind Cybernews has uncovered results from the Shodan search engine, which lets users search for severs connected to the Internet, and suggests that nearly…
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I just received the world’s first 2TB USB flash drive to review — I just wish it was available for sale on Black Friday
No one to my knowledge has reviewed a 2TB USB flash drive so I may well be the first to put up the review of the MS70, after receiving Silicon Power’s first portable SSD with a 2TB capacity. That brings the total number of 2TB USB flash drive, the highest…
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A new botnet is spreading Mirai across the world, with thousands of devices affected
Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new campaign to bring additional endpoints into the Mirai botnet. According to a blog post from Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT), unidentified threat actors discovered two new zero-day vulnerabilities and are currently exploiting them to strengthen the infamous DDoS botnet. Given that the zero-days…
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