April 2025

ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK? 2025-04-15 at 15:35 By Richard Speed Stopping users shooting themselves in the foot with last century’s tech Microsoft has twisted the knife into ActiveX once again, setting Microsoft 365 to disable all controls without so much as a prompt.… This article […]

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Majority of Browser Extensions Can Access Sensitive Enterprise Data, New Report Finds 2025-04-15 at 15:35 By Everybody knows browser extensions are embedded into nearly every user’s daily workflow, from spell checkers to GenAI tools. What most IT and security people don’t know is that browser extensions’ excessive permissions are a growing risk to organizations. LayerX

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Only 11% of El Salvador’s registered Bitcoin firms operational 2025-04-15 at 15:04 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Only 20 of the 181 Bitcoin service providers registered with El Salvador’s central bank are operational, with the rest failing to meet the country’s requirements under its Bitcoin Law.  Local media outlet El Mundo cited data from the

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Where it Hertz: Customer data driven off in Cleo attacks 2025-04-15 at 14:47 By Connor Jones Car hire biz takes your privacy seriously, though Car hire giant Hertz has confirmed that customer information was stolen during the zero-day data raids on Cleo file transfer products last year.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Bitcoin shows growing strength during market downturn — Wintermute 2025-04-15 at 14:01 By Cointelegraph by Adrian Zmudzinski Bitcoin is showing growing resilience to macroeconomic headwinds compared with traditional financial markets, according to an April 14 report from crypto market maker Wintermute. The report noted that Bitcoin (BTC) has held up relatively well during the ongoing

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Can 3-month Bitcoin RSI highs counter bearish BTC price ‘seasonality?’ 2025-04-15 at 14:01 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin (BTC) demands a breakout as a key leading indicator reaches its highest levels since January. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows the relative strength index (RSI) hinting at more BTC price gains next. Bitcoin

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Still browsing like it’s 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive 2025-04-15 at 13:47 By Liam Proven You can’t keep a good OS down The first Intel-based Mac was 19 years ago, but new versions of apps for both Classic Mac OS and PowerPC Mac OS X still occasionally appear, and

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NetRise Raises $10 Million to Grow Software Supply Chain Security Platform 2025-04-15 at 13:32 By Mike Lennon Software supply chain security provider NetRise today announced raising $10 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company close to $25 million. The new investment round was led by DNX Ventures,

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Crypto Developers Targeted by Python Malware Disguised as Coding Challenges 2025-04-15 at 13:32 By The North Korea-linked threat actor assessed to be behind the massive Bybit hack in February 2025 has been linked to a malicious campaign that targets developers to deliver new stealer malware under the guise of a coding assignment. The activity has

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Dead or alive, Britain hands Schrödinger’s industry £121M 2025-04-15 at 12:47 By Dan Robinson UK’s play to win a quantum computing race that is still highly theoretical To mark World Quantum Day, the UK government says it will stump up a £121 million ($158 million) investment in the ever-distant technology that proponents claim has the

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Binance, KuCoin, MEXC report service issues due to AWS network interruption 2025-04-15 at 12:09 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Binance, KuCoin, MEXC and other exchanges and wallet providers have been experiencing service issues due to a significant network interruption by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Centralized cryptocurrency exchanges (CEXs) were hit by an AWS data center

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Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft 2025-04-15 at 11:32 By Richard Speed See no error, hear no error, speak no error The three wise Microsoft monkeys have spoken. If Windows Update displayed an error after installing the April 2025 Windows Recovery Environment release, you didn’t see anything. Best to ignore it and move

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EU gives staff ‘burner phones, laptops’ for US visits 2025-04-15 at 10:38 By Iain Thomson That would put America on the same level as China for espionage The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times.… This article is

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