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Admins everywhere are making this really basic password security mistake
It seems that even IT admins, who should know better, aren’t even using strong passwords to secure portals. Research from cybersecurity firm Outpost24 has found that out of close to two million admin passwords, over 40,000 of them were simply ‘admin’, a common default password that is supposed to be…
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The lightest AMD laptop ever just launched in Japan — and it seems to defy the laws of physics with a 24-hour battery life
Sharp’s Dynabook has launched a high-end 13-inch laptop in Japan that can reach up to a staggering 24 hours of battery life – but it starts at a cool 393,800 yen (roughly $2,600). Fitted with either an AMD Ryzen 7 7730U or Ryzen 5 7530U CPU, the Dynabook GA83/XW includes…
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Watch out – this nasty Android trojan can record your video and audio calls
Cybersecurity experts from F-Secure are warning Android users to be careful when downloading applications from third-party sources, as they could end up installing some nasty malware. In their report, the researchers said that unnamed threat actors engaged in SMS phishing to try and deliver the SpyNote banking trojan to the…
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Another major WordPress security flaw has been discoverd – so patch now
A zero-day vulnerability was recently discovered in a highly popular add-on for the WordPress website builder, potentially putting at risk some 200,000 people who are using it. Cybersecurity researchers from Wordfence and WPScan (both WordPress security firms) discovered the vulnerability in Royal Elementor Addons and Templates, a website-building add-on kit…
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Blue Origin reveals a new cloud platform…for space
Blue Origin has teased what it’s calling a “multi-mission, multi-orbit space mobility platform,” which will serve as a delivery platform connecting the Earth with medium Earth orbit and beyond. In a brief announcement online, Blue Origin described the process as one that facilitates in-space logistics and delivery, and it looks…
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Like Apple did with Intel, Qualcomm is now one step closer to an Arm-free ecosystem — thanks to its Google RISC-V alliance
Qualcomm has doubled down on its recent foray into Google’s RISC-V ecosystem by co-creating a RISC-V Snapdragon Wearable platform that will power forthcoming Wear OS devices. It’s impossible to see this news as anything other than a blow to the rival ARM instruction set architecture (ISA) ecosystem. While ARM is…
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