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Japanese publisher Koei Tecmo has shut down its official websites in multiple regions following a cyber attack. “Due to the possibility of an external cyber attack on this website, it is temporarily closed as we investigate the issue,” reads a notice, which was first spotted by Bleeping Computer’s Lawrence Abrams on December 26th. The news started making rounds yesterday, and as of this writing, the websites are still down. According to a post on a hacker forum, the attackers have access ...

Law enforcement operation brings down VPN and hosting services used by cybercriminals SHARE A joint law enforcement operation involving the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation and various national police forces has taken down three virtual private network services and associated web hosting operations used by cybercriminals. The takedown, dubbed “Operation Nova,” resulted in the seizure of domain names and...

A nasty little bug managed to wriggle inside the raft of fixes supplied by Microsoft in some recent Patch Tuesday downloads. The bug was quite serious as it could mean that users experienced BSODs and disk corruption issues and that devices would no longer be able to boot. Microsoft has acknowledged the problem, and has now started to roll out fixes, as well as explaining mitigation steps to those who have already fallen foul to the bug. Microsoft Windows 10 versions 2004 and 2H2 received updat...

A nasty little bug managed to wriggle inside the raft of fixes supplied by Microsoft in some recent Patch Tuesday downloads. The bug was quite serious as it could mean that users experienced BSODs and disk corruption issues and that devices would no longer be able to boot. Microsoft has acknowledged the problem, and has now started to roll out fixes, as well as explaining mitigation steps to those who have already fallen foul to the bug. Microsoft Windows 10 versions 2004 and 2H2 received updat...

The support page for an affected version of Windows 10 outlines the symptoms of the issue: A small number of devices that have installed this update have reported that when running chkdsk /f, their file system might get damaged and the device might not boot. The same page also outlines how the issue has been addressed: This issue is resolved and should now be prevented automatically on non-managed devices. Please note that it can take up to 24 hours for the resolution to propagate to non-manage...

READ MORE The tech-centric website has carried out tests on popular website such as The New York Times and found Chrome is targeting ads that drain resources like RAM or processing power. If one of these ads dont meet the criteria that Google has set out, then instead of being displayed an error message will appear that says the "ad used too many resources for your device, so we removed it". It also looks like Google are taking no prisoners when it comes to which ads theyre willing to block, ev...

Subway customers are being targeted by hackers - what you should look out for. (JPI Media) Subway customers in the UK were targeted by hackers, it has been revelaed. Malware called TrickBot was found in dangerous links included in phishing emails sent to a number of Subcard loyalty card holders, which customers were encouraged to click. The emails, which were reported by computer security site, Bleeping Computer, used subject lines like “Your order is being processed” and “We’ve r...

Subway customers are being targeted by hackers - what you should look out for. (JPI Media) Subway customers in the UK were targeted by hackers, it has been revelaed. Malware called TrickBot was found in dangerous links included in phishing emails sent to a number of Subcard loyalty card holders, which customers were encouraged to click. The emails, which were reported by computer security site, Bleeping Computer, used subject lines like “Your order is being processed” and “We’ve r...

Subway customers are being targeted by hackers - what you should look out for. (JPI Media) Subway customers in the UK were targeted by hackers, it has been revelaed. Malware called TrickBot was found in dangerous links included in phishing emails sent to a number of Subcard loyalty card holders, which customers were encouraged to click. The emails, which were reported by computer security site, Bleeping Computer, used subject lines like “Your order is being processed” and “We’ve r...

Subway customers are being targeted by hackers - what you should look out for. (JPI Media) Subway customers in the UK were targeted by hackers, it has been revelaed. Malware called TrickBot was found in dangerous links included in phishing emails sent to a number of Subcard loyalty card holders, which customers were encouraged to click. The emails, which were reported by computer security site, Bleeping Computer, used subject lines like “Your order is being processed” and “We’ve r...