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Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market 18/07/2023 at 13:35 By Liam Proven It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn’t Opinion  Linux is now a little more than three 3 per cent of the desktop OS market, excluding the just over four

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FIN8 Group Using Modified Sardonic Backdoor for BlackCat Ransomware Attacks 18/07/2023 at 13:35 By The financially motivated threat actor known as FIN8 has been observed using a “revamped” version of a backdoor called Sardonic to deliver the BlackCat ransomware. According to the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, the development is an attempt on the part of

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Microsoft ‘fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps 18/07/2023 at 12:04 By Paul Kunert Misconfiguration led to hours of pain for engineers as bootstrap service caught in a loop A code deployment for Azure Container Apps that contained a misconfiguration triggered prolonged log data access issues, according to a technical incident report from Microsoft.…

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Samsung ‘closing the gap’ with TSMC on 3nm, 4nm 18/07/2023 at 10:33 By Tobias Mann The race to 2nm is getting crowded as Intel, Japan’s Rapidus enter the fray Samsung Electronics has reportedly caught up with rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) in advanced processor design, achieving comparable yields for both 4nm and 3nm nodes.…

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Cybercriminals Exploiting WooCommerce Payments Plugin Flaw to Hijack Websites 18/07/2023 at 10:03 By Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in the WooCommerce Payments WordPress plugin as part of a massive targeted campaign. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-28121 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of authentication bypass that enables unauthenticated attackers to impersonate

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Owner of BreachForums Pleads Guilty to Cybercrime and Child Pornography Charges 18/07/2023 at 10:03 By Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the owner of the now-defunct BreachForums website, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his operation of the cybercrime forum as well as having child pornography images. The development, first reported by DataBreaches.net last week, comes nearly four months

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JumpCloud Blames ‘Sophisticated Nation-State’ Actor for Security Breach 18/07/2023 at 07:01 By A little over a week after JumpCloud reset API keys of customers impacted by a security incident, the company said the intrusion was the work of a sophisticated nation-state actor. The adversary “gained unauthorized access to our systems to target a small and specific set

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Typo watch: ‘Millions of emails’ for US military sent to .ml addresses in error 18/07/2023 at 03:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo Good thing Mali isn’t best pals with Russia right no– oh, shoot For the past decade, millions of emails destined for .mil US military addresses were actually directed at .ml addresses, that being the top-level

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Microsoft promises to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for next decade. Sony believes it 18/07/2023 at 02:05 By Katyanna Quach Redmond one step closer to $69bn Activision Blizzard merger Microsoft and Sony have signed a pact to keep Call of Duty games available for PlayStation consoles for the next ten years, clearing a major

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