The Russian hackers in the Nobelium group, who were behind the SolarWinds attack are back with a phishing attack. They struck again, according to Tom Burt, Microsoft vice president. Nobelium sent phishing emails In his post, Burt mentioned that hackers managed to gain…
Windows 10 will be ending support for Internet Explorer in 2022. The browser will retire from all Windows 10 devices. Safety systems will keep Internet Explorer alive The move will not affect devices that have long-term servicing options such as medical equipment, air…
Is Instagram for kids safe? Lawmakers raise concerns
April 6, 2021
Following the Instagram for kids project, lawmakers show their concern about Facebook’s plan. Four Democratic lawmakers ask some technical questions about the project. Senators Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal, together with Representatives Kathy Castor and Lori Trahan…
Vaccine against COVID, under attack from North Korea
February 16, 2021
South Korean Intelligence officials warned that a cyber attack from North Korea targeted the technology behind the vaccine against COVID, developed by Pfizer. Nothing about the possibly stolen data According to Yonhap News Agency, the state intelligence agency made…
The Ryuk ransomware operators made $150m in crypto
January 8, 2021
The researchers assume that the operators of the Ryuk ransomware managed to make more than $150m, in cryptocurrency. The security specialists studied the flaw of Bitcoin to the ransomware operators.
The AdvIntel company, together with the Hyas vendor came with a report which…
Trump announced he fired a US cybersecurity official
November 18, 2020
Trump fired Chris Kerbs, one of the senior US cybersecurity officials in the U.S. government. Kerbs was the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), since November 2018. But Donald Trump removed him from this position.
US cybersecurity…
Twitter is in for the early vote in the coming U.S. elections
October 22, 2020
The social media paltform decided to support the early vote in the US elections. Also, Twitter is showing users how to search for their early voting options.
The company announced its decision today. Thus, any US Twitter user will be encouranged to vote early. Also, the…
Windows apps are better thanks to Chromium support
October 20, 2020
Windows apps become better with the help of Chromium Support. In fact, Microsoft announced that the WebView2 technology for Win32 C/C++ applications has become available for all developers.
Microsoft released the information and after that Thurrott mentioned that WebView2…
Microsoft released its first optional Windows 10 update, since it decided to pause them in March, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the company announced last month, July would see the return of the optional Windows 10 cumulative updates for Windows 1809 and later. Usually…
Google will open a new data centre in Poland and will be training 10,000 people only this year. Thus, the new data centre should support cloud services.
The company will invest about two billion dollars, according to Magdalena Dziewguc, head of Google Cloud business…