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M.2 SSD requires expansion board The QNAP TS-253D-4G ($369) is a two-bay NAS designed for business and home users who require a network attached storage device that brings high-speed connectivity and expandability. Powered by a robust 2GHz Intel Celeron J4125 quad-core processor, the TS-253D turned in solid scores in our file transfer performance tests and offers a nice selection of apps. That said, our Editors’ Choice winner for two-bay NAS devices, the Asustor AS6602T, is a bit faster and o...

The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is dealing with a ransomware incident that encrypted data and impacted two of its services that offer information to subscribers and the platform for peer review of various parts of the agency.

Heres how law enforcements Emotet malware module works By New research released today provides greater insight into the Emotet module created by law enforcement that will uninstall the malware from infected devices in April. On January 27th, Europol announced that a joint operation between law enforcement agencies from Netherlands, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Lithuania, Canada, and Ukraine took control of the Emotet botnets servers and disrupted the malwares opera...

Microsoft: 8 trillion daily signals power our cybersecurity services By 04:37 PM Microsofts security services grew by $10 billion in 2020, as more companies began utilizing their cloud-based security services. Microsoft released the second quarter of the fiscal year 2021 earnings this week and beat consensus estimates by 7.36%. While most of this growth is attributed to Azure and Xbox, Microsofts new blog post shows that security services are becoming a larger part of their revenue stream. A...

Pan-Asian retail giant Dairy Farm suffers REvil ransomware attack By Massive pan-Asian retail chain operator Dairy Farm Group was attacked this month by the REvil ransomware operation. The attackers claim to have demanded a $30 million ransom. The Dairy Farm Group operates over 10,000 outlets and has 230,000 employees throughout Asia. In 2019, the Dairy Farm Groups total annual sales exceeded $27 billion. The group operates numerous grocery, convenience store, health and beauty, home furnishi...

Beware of this active UK NHS COVID-19 vaccination phishing attack By 06:27 PM A very active phishing campaign is underway pretending to be from the UKs National Health Service (NHS), alerting recipients that they are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Today, numerous Twitter users began reporting that they received this phishing email, with some being in the right age group to be eligible and thus falling for the scam. There are multiple variants of the phishing emails, but they all cla...

Hackers hitting thousands of organizations worldwide in a massive phishing campaign forgot to protect their loot and let Google the stolen passwords for public searches.

Malwarebytes says SolarWinds hackers accessed its internal emails By 03:03 PM Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes today confirmed that the threat actor behind the SolarWinds supply-chain attack were able to gain access to some company emails. "While Malwarebytes does not use SolarWinds, we, like many other companies were recently targeted by the same threat actor," Malwarebytes CEO and co-founder Marcin Kleczynski said. "We can confirm the existence of another intrusion vector that works by abusin...

Windows utility developer IObit was hacked over the weekend to perform a widespread attack to distribute the strange DeroHE ransomware to its forum members.

Windows 10X: A closer look at Microsofts new operating system By Windows 10X was announced way back in 2019 and its finally launching later this year on a new range of 2-in-1s/notebooks from Microsoft partners. Unlike Windows 10, Windows 10X would be simple, sleek, faster, and more secure. For those unfamiliar, Windows 10X was originally designed for dual-screen devices, such as the Surface Neo, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold, and Intel prototypes. In 2020, Microsoft said that the plans have changed ...