December 2023

Discover How Gcore Thwarted Powerful 1.1Tbps and 1.6Tbps DDoS Attacks 01/12/2023 at 13:51 By The most recent Gcore Radar report and its aftermath have highlighted a dramatic increase in DDoS attacks across multiple industries. At the beginning of 2023, the average strength of attacks reached 800 Gbps, but now, even a peak as high as 1.5+ Tbps is unsurprising. To

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WhatsApp’s New Secret Code Feature Lets Users Protect Private Chats with Password 01/12/2023 at 13:51 By Meta-owned WhatsApp has launched a new Secret Code feature to help users protect sensitive conversations with a custom password on the messaging platform. The feature has been described as an “additional way to protect those chats and make them harder to find if

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Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document … then vanished 01/12/2023 at 13:18 By Paul Kunert Scottish health group to tweak security checks, access authorization to avoid a repeat NHS Fife is on the wrong end of a stern ticking off by Britain’s data regulator after it made a howling privacy

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Small but mighty, 9Front’s ‘Humanbiologics’ is here for the truly curious 01/12/2023 at 12:33 By Liam Proven Programmers developing what is essentially UNIX 2.0 are still busy bunnies 9Front, the main project continuing development of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, has emitted another new version, as enigmatic but significant as ever.… This article is an

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U.S. Treasury Sanctions North Korean Kimsuky Hackers and 8 Foreign Agents 01/12/2023 at 11:47 By The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday sanctioned the North Korea-linked adversarial collective known as Kimsuky as well as eight foreign-based agents who are alleged to have facilitated sanctions evasion. The agents, the

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Interpol makes first border arrest using Biometric Hub to ID suspect 01/12/2023 at 10:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Global database of faces and fingerprints proves its worth European police have for the first time made an arrest after remotely checking Interpol’s trove of biometric data to identify a suspected smuggler.… This article is an excerpt

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Zyxel Releases Patches to Fix 15 Flaws in NAS, Firewall, and AP Devices 01/12/2023 at 10:01 By Zyxel has released patches to address 15 security issues impacting network-attached storage (NAS), firewall, and access point (AP) devices, including three critical flaws that could lead to authentication bypass and command injection. The three vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2023-35138 (CVSS

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Thirty-nine weeks: that’s how long you’ll be waiting for an AI server from Dell 01/12/2023 at 09:02 By Simon Sharwood Revenue and net income down, server market flickers, PCs fail to ignite Dell has told investors that demand for AI servers has surged, but buyers will be forced to wait 39 weeks to get their

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