Apple warns for active exploited zero-day vulnerability on Macs
Apple has warned iPhone and Mac users that it is aware of a zero-day bug under active exploit. The company thanked Google for spotting the bug, assigned CVE-2021-30869, which the world's largest ad company seems to have noticed since it impacts the WebKit browser engine.
It is a serious flaw, as...
Amazon launches QuickSight Q for Business Intelligence
The service uses a natural language query tool that makes it easier for users to ask questions.
Known simply as "Q", the tool allows a company’s employees to ask business questions using natural language. For example: "How many customers bought product X and in which month did they make the p...
EU and US work together to limit market power of big tech
The United States and European Union plan to take a more unified approach to limit the market power wielded by big tech companies. The news comes from a draft memo. The move will likely be among announcements made on supply chain, trade, climate, and tech at a US-EU Trade and Technology Council mee...
Two out of three malware attacks are ransomware
According to a report by Positive Technologies, ransomware accounts for 69% of all malware-based cyberattacks. The report says that ransomware has reached stratospheric levels in Q2 of the year. At the same time, the overall number of cyberattacks has not changed much, rising by about 0.3%, compare...
Microsoft launches new Surface products “built for Windows 11”
The new and updated versions of Surface products will become available at the same time as the new Windows 11 release.
At its all-digital launch event this week, Microsoft announced eight new products for its Surface hardware line. Apart from the Microsoft Laptop studio, which is a completely ne...
Memory prices may dive in late 2022, according to a report by Gartner
DRAM and NAND flash prices are set to fall precipitously in the second half of 2022, according to an analysis by Gartner.
In a memo published last week and obtained by reporters from The Register, the firm predicts flooding of the memory chips market, as demand eases and supply take off again. I...
LG acquires Cybellum, an Israeli automotive startup
LG Electronics announced on Thursday that it acquired an Israeli automotive cybersecurity company named Cybellum. The Tel Aviv-based company was founded in 2016 and offers risk assessment software for scanning software in-vehicle components for risks and flaws.
The South Korean electronics giant...
Microsoft Security details BulletProofLink, a phishing-as-a-service provider
Microsoft announced they catched an extensive phishing-as-a-service operation providing various services to those who wish to start phishing campaigns. These campaigns send messages that fool people into responding and offer attackers ways of breaching systems. By monitoring their work Microsoft l...
Apache Kafka 3.0 readies for extensive clean-up and Raft metadata mode
Apache Kafka 3.0 is now available, making way for the event processing platform to leave the ZooKeeper project behind for good. It is, therefore, not surprising that the highlights of the release come in the context of Kraft, Kafka’s consensus mechanism, which is still in preview.
The successo...
Survey: no-code and low-code also popular with developers
The new platforms aren't just for non-techie professionals, according to a recent developer survey.
According to a recent study by Mendix, low-code and no-code solutions are not just for non-IT professionals. They are also tools for developers themselves. It seems these platforms make their own ...
Microsoft launches Surface Laptop Studio
The introduction of the new laptop is part of the company's ongoing buildup to the launch of Windows 11.
This week Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Studio, a successor to the Surface Book model line. It presents a total redesign for Microsoft’s flagship laptop, ditching the removable dis...
Dell EMC CloudIQ adds support for PowerEdge servers and PowerSwitch
The updates enable more autonomous infrastructure management on-premises and in the cloud.
Dell has announced new AIOps Capabilities, including the new CloudIQ support for PowerEdge servers and PowerSwitch networking. The changes now cover all of Dell EMC-branded infrastructure portfolio. This a...