Microsoft rolled out patches for a whopping 129 vulnerabilities in June’s Patch Tuesday. It marked the 4th month in a row that MS released patches for more than 110 CVEs. MS has already patched 616 CVEs – and it’s only June!
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Here are the Internet speeds ranked by country. And no, the USA is not in the top ten.
This seemingly benign photograph is bricking Android phones when set as a screensaver or wallpaper.
Word spread on social media of a particular photograph that is causing some phones to go into a continuous reboot sequence when the photo is set as the screensaver. It’s been tested and yeah, it does trigger the reboot. In some instances, you cannot escape out of the sequence effectively bricking the phone and requiring…
Facebook debuts Twitter-like app, Venue, during today’s NASCAR event.
No doubt about it, the US just froze Huawei out of the 5G market because they’re scared.
Zuckerberg dead at 39? No post fact checking says child molester Mark Zuckerberg? Websites test Facebook’s policy of free speech.
Websites are throwing some good shade at Mark Zuckerberg this week after he proclaimed Facebook should not be the “arbiter of truth”. The statement came after Twitter flagged President Trump’s tweets as “deceptive”. In response to Facebook’s announcement, satire websites began place clearly fictional posts on the social network platform as a test of Facebook’s…
NSA issues security alert warning of new wave of cybersecurity attacks against email servers conducted by Russia’s GRU.
The NSA says that members of Unit 74455 of the GRU Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST), a division of the Russian military intelligence service, have been attacking email servers running the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA). Also known as “Sandworm,” this group has been hacking Exim servers since August 2019 by exploiting a critical…
Forget the 26 new USB bugs found in Linux and Windows, it’s the security fuzzer tool that discovered them that’s the news.
A research team from Purdue University has created a tool, USBFuzz, which fuzzes calls to the USB driver stack. Apparently the tool is pretty groundbreaking. The researchers said, “At its core, USBFuzz uses a software-emulated USB device to provide random device data to drivers (when they perform IO operations).” The researchers tested the tool on:…
Leak shows Motorola’s upcoming foldable will be a powerful upgrade to last year’s Razr.
If the leaks are correct, Motorola’s second foldable phone iteration, the successor to the 2019 Motorola Razr, is getting a big spec upgrade. According to rumors, it’ll be powered by a Snapdragon 765 5G chipset and will come with 8GB RAM, 265GB storage, and a 2,845mAh battery, slightly larger than the origina Motorola Razr foldable.…










