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Instagram luring TikTok influencers with $50K cash bonuses — to help them ‘get off the ground’: report 2025-01-23 at 16:49 By Brooke Steinberg Instagram is attempting to reel in TikTok’s creators. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

FortiGate config leaks: Victims’ email addresses published online 2025-01-23 at 16:49 By Connor Jones Experts warn not to take leaks lightly as years-long compromises could remain undetected Thousands of email addresses included in the Belsen Group’s dump of FortiGate configs last week are now available online, revealing which organizations may have been impacted by the

VMware users gripe over 3-year commitment to renew licenses 2025-01-23 at 16:19 By Dan Robinson Chips and software giant Broadcom says it’s ‘flexible and open’ on licensing terms, but customers disagree VMware users continue to be unhappy with licensing changes since the virtualization giant was acquired by Broadcom, and are now complaining that they are

Experts Find Shared Codebase Linking Morpheus and HellCat Ransomware Payloads 2025-01-23 at 16:18 By An analysis of HellCat and Morpheus ransomware operations has revealed that affiliates associated with the respective cybercrime entities are using identical code for their ransomware payloads. The findings come from SentinelOne, which analyzed artifacts uploaded to the VirusTotal malware scanning platform

SK hynix wobbles on market uncertainty, despite record 2024 earnings 2025-01-23 at 15:33 By Dan Robinson Shares slide at ‘most profitable’ company in Korea as world worries over geopolitics Market uncertainty and fears around trade protectionism are overshadowing SK hynix’s latest earnings, with its shares sliding despite revenue doubling for the financial year just completed.…

ChatGPT goes down as OpenAI scrambles to fix bug 2025-01-23 at 15:03 By Ariel Zilber Attempts to log into the site were met with error messages before dawn on Thursday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Ford recalls over 270,000 US vehicles due to battery concern 2025-01-23 at 14:48 By Reuters The 12-volt battery may experience degradation and suddenly fail. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt out? 2025-01-23 at 14:33 By Richard Speed As Microsoft, Apple, and Google switch the tech on by default, what happened to asking for permission first? Opinion  Copilot in Microsoft 365 and Apple Intelligence on iDevices are the latest examples of the tech industry’s obsession with making

Brit competition watchdog takes aim at Google, Apple’s mobile ecosystems 2025-01-23 at 14:18 By Richard Speed CMA flexes its new Strategic Market Status muscles The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching Strategic Market Status (SMS) investigations into both Apple and Google, probing the duo’s control of their respective mobile ecosystems.… This article is

New Research: The State of Web Exposure 2025 2025-01-23 at 13:34 By Are your websites leaking sensitive data? New research reveals that 45% of third-party apps access user info without proper authorization, and 53% of risk exposures in Retail are due to the excessive use of tracking tools. Learn how to uncover and mitigate these

SonicWall Urges Immediate Patch for Critical CVE-2025-23006 Flaw Amid Likely Exploitation 2025-01-23 at 13:34 By SonicWall is alerting customers of a critical security flaw impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 Series appliances that it said has been likely exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-23006, is rated 9.8 out

How to Eliminate Identity-Based Threats 2025-01-23 at 13:34 By Despite significant investments in advanced technologies and employee training programs, credential and user-based attacks remain alarmingly prevalent, accounting for 50-80% of enterprise breaches[1],[2]. While identity-based attacks continue to dominate as the leading cause of security incidents, the common approach to identity security threats is still threat

OpenZFS 2.3 is here, with RAID expansion and faster dedup 2025-01-23 at 13:18 By Liam Proven Coming soon to April’s TrueNAS SCALE release, dubbed ‘Fangtooth’ The latest version of OpenZFS offers RAID expansion, plus faster data deduplication donated by iXsystems. The code will be available very soon in the beta of TrueNAS SCALE 25.04.… This

Can an at-home vagus nerve stimulator reduce stress? New tech could improve sleep, focus and anxiety 2025-01-23 at 13:04 By Tracy Swartz “Vagus nerve stimulation pulls you out of that stressful physiologic state,” Dr. Peter Staats told The Post. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post

Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users 2025-01-23 at 12:27 By Jessica Lyons Plus: ‘Largest-ever’ duff traffic tsunami clocks in at 5.6 Tbps In addition to Chinese spies invading organizations’ networks and ransomware crews locking up sensitive files, botnets blasting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can still cause a world of hurt

QakBot-Linked BC Malware Adds Enhanced DNS Tunneling and Remote Access Features 2025-01-23 at 12:27 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new BackConnect (BC) malware that has been developed by threat actors linked to the infamous QakBot loader. “BackConnect is a common feature or module utilized by threat actors to maintain persistence and perform

Biz tax rises, inflation and high interest. Why fewer UK tech firms started in 2024 2025-01-23 at 11:34 By Paul Kunert And the government thinks that AI and taking shackles off big tech will help? God help Britain For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the number of tech firms incorporated in

Report: Healthcare ransomware targets are shifting 2025-01-23 at 11:03 By Certain ransomware groups are targeting healthcare institutions more than other sectors.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Tool touted as ‘first AI software engineer’ is bad at its job, testers claim 2025-01-23 at 10:33 By Thomas Claburn Nailed just 15% of assigned tasks A service described as “the first AI software engineer” appears to be rather bad at its job, based on a recent evaluation.… This article is an excerpt from The

Asus lets processor security fix slip out early, AMD confirms patch in progress 2025-01-23 at 09:30 By Iain Thomson Answers on a postcard to what ‘Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability’ might mean AMD has confirmed at least some of its microprocessors suffer a microcode-related security vulnerability, the existence of which accidentally emerged this month after a