January 2024

Case Study: The Cookie Privacy Monster in Big Global Retail 2024-01-16 at 13:46 By Explore how an advanced exposure management solution saved a major retail industry client from ending up on the naughty step due to a misconfiguration in its cookie management policy. This wasn’t anything malicious, but with modern web environments being so complex, […]

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How Sinclair’s QL computer outshined Apple’s Macintosh against all odds 2024-01-16 at 13:02 By Liam Proven Compatible hardware and peripherals are still on sale, four decades after its launch Retro Tech Week  Two weeks before Apple launched the Macintosh, Sir Clive Sinclair launched his unprecedentedly powerful yet affordable Motorola-powered SOHO computer – starting a line

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Deep Green gets £200M from power supplier to scale waste heat reuse 2024-01-16 at 12:32 By Dan Robinson Octopus Energy wants to back server-cooling, district heating projects Datacenter operator Deep Green has bagged £200 million ($254 million) from power provider Octopus Energy to help scale deployments that give municipal sites free heat in exchange for

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Remember when enterprise administration was more than just a browser dashboard? 2024-01-16 at 11:32 By Richard Speed Playing Colossal Cave Adventure on an ICL 2966 and coding on the last Elliott 803 Feature  Keeping old computers running for everyone to enjoy is getting increasingly difficult as the years pass. Parts get harder to obtain, and

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Can you dig it? Samsung buys chunk of a Canadian nickel mining company 2024-01-16 at 10:47 By Laura Dobberstein Korean giant wants a local source of the stuff needed to build batteries Samsung’s battery unit may have found part of a solution to sourcing the raw materials needed for the products it packs into gadgets

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Inferno Malware Masqueraded as Coinbase, Drained $87 Million from 137,000 Victims 2024-01-16 at 10:46 By The operators behind the now-defunct Inferno Drainer created more than 16,000 unique malicious domains over a span of one year between 2022 and 2023. The scheme “leveraged high-quality phishing pages to lure unsuspecting users into connecting their cryptocurrency wallets with the attackers’

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Hackers Weaponize Windows Flaw to Deploy Crypto-Siphoning Phemedrone Stealer 2024-01-16 at 09:47 By Threat actors have been observed leveraging a now-patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows to deploy an open-source information stealer called Phemedrone Stealer. “Phemedrone targets web browsers and data from cryptocurrency wallets and messaging apps such as Telegram, Steam, and Discord,” Trend Micro researchers

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Opera MyFlaw Bug Could Let Hackers Run ANY File on Your Mac or Windows 2024-01-16 at 09:47 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a now-patched security flaw in the Opera web browser for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS that could be exploited to execute any file on the underlying operating system. The remote code execution vulnerability

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Atari 400 makes a comeback in miniature form 2024-01-16 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood The only PC with a keyboard so dreadful it challenged the ZX80, now even less usable Retro Tech Week  Judges pondering contenders for the title of “World’s Worst PC Keyboard, Ever”, seldom look too far beyond Sinclair’s ZX80, which offered a

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3 Ransomware Group Newcomers to Watch in 2024 2024-01-16 at 08:46 By The ransomware industry surged in 2023 as it saw an alarming 55.5% increase in victims worldwide, reaching a staggering 4,368 cases.  Figure 1: Year over year victims per quarter The rollercoaster ride from explosive growth in 2021 to a momentary dip in 2022

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India again backs down on its controversial PC import restrictions 2024-01-16 at 07:47 By Laura Dobberstein Desktops escape regulations, laptops and servers don’t, no reasons explained India’s Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has announced that import restrictions targeting PCs will not include desktop computers, adding another twist to the strange saga of the nation’s

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China’s gambling crackdown spawned wave of illegal online casinos and crypto-crime in Asia 2024-01-16 at 05:32 By Simon Sharwood ‘Inaccessible and autonomous armed group territories’ host crooks who use tech to launder cash, run slave scam gangs, and more Global crime networks have set up shop in autonomous territories run by armed gangs across Southeast

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Microsoft prices new Copilots for individuals and small biz vastly higher than M365 alone 2024-01-16 at 01:47 By Simon Sharwood Intros ‘Pro’ AI for creators, ditches 300-seat requirement for business use Microsoft has revealed new versions of its OpenAI-powered Copilot services, at prices around triple the cost of its flagship M365 suite.… This article is

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Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion 2024-01-15 at 23:02 By Richard Speed Billionaire suggests a payload would have solved the problem. And we have a suggestion for who that payload could be SpaceX boss Elon Musk has blamed a lack of payload coupled with the venting of liquid oxygen for last year’s

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