Google to present new Pixel 8 smartphones in early October
Google recently announced the unveiling date of the Pixel 8 series of high-end smartphones.
According to Google, the new Pixel 8 series of smartphones will see the light of day on October 5, 2023. This new line is the successor to the Pixel 7-series presented last October.
Two models
The P... Read more
French Google Cloud data center has been offline for three weeks now
The Google Cloud data center near Paris remains offline for now. Although the outage affects many users in Western Europe, Google has not provided any updates since it recommended switching to other regions three weeks ago.
We reported on the problems at the facility late last month. A leak caus... Read more
Samsung employees leak secrets to ChatGPT
Samsung staff has leaked secrets with ChatGPT. Mere weeks after the South Korean tech company allowed internal use of the chatbot, at least three incidents occurred in which employees shared information a little too eagerly.
Until March 11, Samsung did not allow its employees to make use of the ... Read more
AMD self-leaks four of its new Ryzen 7000 Series models
AMD accidentally published four of its new upcoming Ryzen 7000 CPU's ahead of their release.
On Wednesday the 27th of July, AMD accidentally leaked a quartet of CPUs from the Ryzen 7000 series. AMD is a semiconductor company headquartered in California, best known for developing CPUS and technol... Read more
Leaked image hints at dual screen 17″ Lenovo ThinkBook Plus
Lenovo appears to be working on a 17″ ThinkBook Plus with a second display located next to the laptop's keyboard.
The image of the prototype was leaked by Evan Blass, a blogger who leaked dozens of concepts from hardware manufacturers over the past decade -- and is usually correct.
The leak... Read more
Dutch hackers get 200k for finding critical security leaks in Zoom
Two Dutch hackers from Computest Security, Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade, have discovered critical security vulnerabilities in the video calling application Zoom. For discovering and reporting these critical security leaks, they will receive a reward of 200,000 dollars.
The security experts of ... Read more
250 million records exposed in Microsoft database
A problem with a Microsoft ElasticSearch database has put 250 million users' data on the street. The settings of the database were simply set to 'public' by accident.
The problem was discovered by Bob Diachenko, a security researcher at Security Discovery. Diachenko regularly discovers these kin... Read more
Microsoft will fix leak in Internet Explorer on February 11th
A critical security vulnerability has been found in Internet Explorer (IE). By exploiting this leak, criminals can remotely execute code on the system and even access it. The leak is already being abused, but a patch is still pending.
The security leak is located in the scripting engine of Inter... Read more
Thousands of British passports exposed through AWS database
An unsecured Amazon Web Services database has exposed thousands of British passports, visible in scans. In addition, tax documents and job applications were also visible. It's not yet clear who left the database exposed.
Two security researchers, Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, discovered the flaw whi... Read more
McAfee sues former employees for leaking trade secrets
Security firm McAfee has sued three former employees. The employees are accused of wanting to steal trade secrets and pass them on to their new employer, competitor Tanium. That's what ZDNet reports.
The three employees, Jennifer Kinney, Alan Coe and Percy Tejeda, were senior sales employees. They ... Read more