The notorious Emotet botnet software began uninstalling itself from some one million computers Sunday. The uninstall command was part of an update sent to the infected computers by law enforcement servers in the Netherlands after Emotet s infrastructure was compromised in January during a multinational operation mounted by eight nations.
A set of flaws in a widely used network communication protocol that could affect millions of devices has been revealed by Forescout Research Labs and JSOF Research. The nine vulnerabilities discovered by security researchers dramatically increase the attack surface of at least 100 million Internet of Things devices, exposing them to potential attacks that could take the devices offline or to be hijacked by threat actors.
A set of flaws in a widely used network communication protocol that could affect millions of devices has been revealed by Forescout Research Labs and JSOF Research. The nine vulnerabilities discovered by security researchers dramatically increase the attack surface of at least 100 million Internet of Things devices, exposing them to potential attacks that could take the devices offline or to be hijacked by threat actors.
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May 11, 2021 4:00 AM PT
More than 90 percent of U.S. users of the latest version of Apple s mobile operating system are taking advantage of a new feature to block an application s ability to track their activity on their phones. This is bad news for advertisers.
According to research updated Saturday by Flurry, an analytics company owned by the Verizon Media Group, 96 percent of U.S. users of iOS 14.5 blocked app tracking using the new App Tracking Transparency feature. Worldwide, advertisers fared slightly better with 88 percent of users shutting down application tracking on their phones.
Slick New iMac, Muscular iPad Pro Headline Apple Event
Apr 21, 2021 4:00 AM PT
Apple introduced a new version of its iMac desktop and a powerful upgrade of its iPad Pro tablet at an online event Tuesday. Both new products are based on Apple s new M1 chip. The whole thing about this event is broadening the use of the M1 chip across all Apple s computers now laptops, desktops and iPads, Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, a technology advisory firm in Campbell, Calif. told TechNewsWorld.
The new iMac is the first computer built by Apple for the M1 chip from the ground up, explained Ross Rubin the principal analyst at Reticle Research, a consumer technology advisory firm in New York City.