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Update your phone now! Hackers are pouncing on bugs found in Android By Albert Khoury, Komando.com As we got into the swing of spring, we were treated to a showcase of new products and features from Big Tech. Apple and Google recently had their annual events, giving us glimpses of what to expect. Developers constantly update and patch their software to heighten security and add new features. These fixes sometimes reveal vulnerabilities that people were unaware of. Here’s the backstory...

Earlier this month, users were notified of a critical security flaw present in Qualcomm chips powering hundreds of millions of Android devices, as uncovered by security firm...

The Arm Mali GPU kernel driver allows privilege escalation or information disclosure because GPU memory operations are mishandled, leading to a use-after-free. This affects Bifrost r0p0 through r28p0 before r29p0, Valhall r19p0 through r28p0 before r29p0, and Midgard r4p0 through r30p0. The Arm Mali GPU kernel driver allows privilege escalation or a denial of service (memory corruption) because an unprivileged user can achieve read/write access to read-only pages. This affects Bifrost r0p0 thro...

May 18, 2021 at 2:39 PM Shares3 Just as I sat down to write this, a notice popped up on my laptop that my Amazon package had been delivered. Fitting, since what follows is all about Amazon — and in particular, the important role the company plays in helping to deter the sale of counterfeit goods worldwide. For just one high-profile example of those efforts, I again refer readers to my column on Amazon’s joining as one-half of an anti-counterfeit tag team with designer brand Ferragamo. But o...

Making Zero-Day Flaws Disappear Compliance Compliance Twitter Get Permission Maddie Stone, a security researcher with Google Project Zero, speaks on Friday at the AusCERT computer security conference. This year is on track to be a record one for zero-day vulnerabilities, the term for software flaws that are being actively exploited in the wild and do not have a fix. About 21 have been discovered so far, and if that pace continues, the year could end with more than 60, says Maddie Stone, a se...

Jaguar E-Type Unleashed review: a big cat with claws (Jesse Evison Photography) The Jaguar E-Type is a work of art, literally. A dark blue 1963 Roadster is among nine cars on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Justifying its choice, MoMA said: ‘The sleek, bullet-like shape of the Jaguar E-Type continues to be one of the most influential and imitated styling forms in sports car design’. The E-Type, then, is more than just a car. It’s a cultural icon...

Were Getting A New Fatal Frame, But Its A Pachinko Machine Fatal Frame – also known as Project Zero – is one of the horror genres most famous franchises. Created by Koei Tecmo, it began life on PlayStation 2 in 2001 but has more recently been exclusive to Nintendo hardware, as Nintendo has co-funded and co-developed recent instalments. 2008s With the series turning 20 this year, co-creator and producer Keisuke Kikuchi stated that he wanted to celebrate the milestone in some way, but that ...

As schools struggle to recover lost ground and regularise their academic calendars after the disruption caused by COVID-19, Uchechukwu Nnaike highlights the initiatives by Data Science Nigeria, and other bodies to provide access to online learning for all children, so as to fill the void created by the prolonged schools closure Education witnessed an unprecedented disruption across the world for the better part of 2020, as schools were shut for more than six months to check the spread of COVID-...

Amazon reveals large-scale counterfeit clampdown in 2020, but will brand owners be convinced?

The internet shopping giant’s first Brand Protection Report contained plenty of facts and figures to back its stated efforts to drive “counterfeits to zero.” Alongside the 10 billion suspected bad listings that were blocked, the firm’s VP of worldwide customer trust and partner support, Dharmesh Mehta, claimed that Amazon prevented over six million attempts to create new selling accounts during 2020. The latter figure is up from the 2.5 million reported in 2019. These efforts have been...