Microsoft SharePoint has a worrying security flaw, experts warn
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) is warning admins that a Microsoft SharePoint Server flaw is now being actively exploited in the wild. In a new addition to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, CISA says CVE-2023-29357 is being used to gain elevated privileges. “These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise,” it noted. Remote access tools under assault Micro...
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Kanto’s ORA4 desktop speakers just went straight to the top of our CES wish-list
The new ORA4 high performance desktop speakers have been unveiled in Vegas at CES 2024 by Canadian audio firm Kanto Audio, and they’re considerably more sultry and demure than the music and entertainment arena known as Sphere, which you can see desperately trying to attract attention in the video below. Unlike Sphere (which some might describe as both ludicrously large and ludicrously expensive), the ORA4 powered speakers are compact and relatively affordable too. Although they are desi...
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Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, October 19 (game #633)
It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s fun, but also difficult. What’s more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keeping it fresh in the form of a variant called the Daily Sequence, which se...
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Chrome just got 5 updates to speed up your web browsing – here’s how to use them
Google just announced five new updates to its predictive search, with some updates arriving this week. You can already experiment with the improved search bar on Google Chrome and ChromeOS devices. The search giant announced the update in a blog post on Wednesday promising the improvements will make browsing with Chrome’s address bar “even faster.”. Here are the highlights: Smarter Autocompletion Whenever you have a question, you want to find the answers fast. With an updated a...
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Even a laptop can run RAM externally thanks to a little-known tech called CXL — but it’s not for sale to mere mortals who only want 1TB of RAM
A start-up has sampled a new device designed to augment servers with additional memory over a CXL 2.0 connection simply by plugging it into a laptop. FADU, which is known to manufacture SSDs and other storage units, demonstrated its CXL 2.0 switch concept device at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2023, according to Serve the Home. This was a field programmable gate array (FPGA) switch, the firm said, and it’s designed to augment IT infrastructure with a monumental amount of memory to support next-...
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9 early Black Friday TV deals I recommend buying right now
While the best Black Friday deals are usually reserved for November, I’ve been very impressed with recent TV offers I’ve spotted from retailers like Best Buy, Amazon, and Walmart. I’m so impressed (and surprised) that I put together a list of all the best early Black Friday TV deals I recommend buying right now. The list includes a mix of premium OLED TVs and budget sets from brands like Samsung, LG, and Insignia, with prices starting at just $59.99. The common denominator of...
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One of the most popular text editors around has been infected with malicious ads
A new malicious Google ads campaign, which was active for “months”, was probably dropping Cobalt Strike deployments on unsuspecting victims, researchers have warned. Cybersecurity researchers from Malwarebytes recently discovered a campaign hijacking Google Ads being served to people searching for Notepad++, a popular word editing software. Whenever someone searches for Notepad++ (or types in a similar query that should bring up the editor), the first few results they see would be ads, s...
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D-Link confirms data breach after employees hit with phishing attack
Network gear maker D-Link has confirmed it suffered a breach that saw internal data stolen, but claims the data isn’t actually that useful to malicious actors. The company said two employees fell victim to a phishing attack that gave the attacker access to the company’s endpoints. To remedy the problem, D-Link shut down the breached servers and disabled the accounts in question. Test environment Earlier this month, a threat actor posted a new thread on a dark web forum, claiming to hav...
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