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Researchers have uncovered a new campaign by a North Korean-backed hacking group targeting journalists covering the country.

The first attack took place no later than February 2022, while the final destructive stages were set for April 8, 2022

The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Sandworm tried on Friday to take down a large Ukrainian energy provider by disconnecting its electrical substations with a new variant of the Industroyer malware for industrial control systems (ICS) and a new version of the CaddyWiper data destruction malware.

Hackers could take control of millions of servers, shutting them down or forcing them to spew malware due to widely-used faulty code. How did it happen, and what can you do to protect yourself?

The models have limitations, but researchers reported improvements in detection across a wide range of malware families.

Wine recently received an update to version 6.0. The update improves Windows apps on Linux systems that use Wine. Wine can be used to run Windows applications and games on non-native systems. Wine recently received an update that improves Windows apps running on Linux. The update comes in the form of Win3 6.0, and includes over 8,300 changes, according to its full release notes (via Tech Radar). Wine is a compatibility layer that allows you to run thousands of Windows applications on Linux syst...

From my experience on Linux I found Wine okay. What I do wish “they” would sort out is making it as easy to as Microsofts stuff like easy install and the compatibility stuff auto-configured. I know there are variants of Wine which kind of do this but the ease of use thing would definately reduce friction and make Linux more compelling. When running Linux I only had a couple of applications I needed to run via Wine. Lightroom 5.x 32 bit worked well after a lot of faffing but 64 bit had graph...