Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Palo Alto firewalls: Public exploits, rising attacks, ineffective mitigationWhile it initially seemed that protecting Palo Alto Network firewalls from attacks leveraging CVE-2024-3400 would be possible by disabling the devices’ telemetry, it has now been confirmed that this mitigation is ineffectual. […]
April 19, 2024 Ben and Ryan explore why configuration is so complicated, the right to repair, the best programming languages for beginners, how AI is grading exams in Texas, Automattic’s $125M acquisition of Beeper, and why a major US city’s train system still relies on floppy disks. Plus: The unique challenge of keeping up with […]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) became the victim of a cyberattack in late March, which also impacted the IT infrastructure of the city of Copenhagen, Denmark. The UNDP received word of a data-extortion actor stealing its data, some of it related to human resources and procurement. As the agency continues to assess the scope […]
We see a similar failure in StorageCraft’s design. The fact that an admin decommissioning a single server caused them to lose all metadata suggests a lack of geo-redundancy and fault-tolerance in their backup storage architecture. This had a single server with a single copy of the only data that would allow them to piece together […]
What are the risks and consequences of having your health data exposed and what are the steps to take if it happens to you? Source link
No. 831, Thursday, April 11, 2024 View in browser In partnership with Olá, frontend friends! 👋 We got fresh and juicy links for you in this edition! Addy Osmani explores the crucial approach of structured debugging, setting it apart from random code tweaks. Roman Komarov introduces an innovative CSS strategy known as “layered toggles,” which allows […]
I’m a big fan of Shokz bone conduction headphones, and the OpenRun Pro are without a doubt my favorite version. They fit well around my head, the 10-hour battery life is excellent, the sound quality is great, they’re completely sweat-proof, there’s nothing to block my earholes, and I’m not going to lose them in the […]
Google accounts for 91.5% of global traffic, dramatically impacting business digital strategies. This indicates that more than building an online presence on Google is required. Joining the competitive race to get to the top of a search engine’s first page is vital to success. It requires mastering the art of increasing leads, engagement levels, and […]
TL;DR: Get the ultimate protection for your files on 10 devices with a 2-year subscription to the 5 TB Plan of ElephantDrive — it’s just $120 for new users. In these days of frequent confidential data breaches, business leaders must keep their team’s files ultra-secure. But most of the methods for doing that also make […]
A previously undocumented “flexible” backdoor called Kapeka has been “sporadically” observed in cyber attacks targeting Eastern Europe, including Estonia and Ukraine, since at least mid-2022. The findings come from Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure, which attributed the malware to the Russia-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as Sandworm (aka APT44 or Source link