Technology

Softbank Plans to Charge Electronic Gadgets Using 5G Antennas Japanese tech giant SoftBank plans to trial wireless charging of smartwatches and earbuds using power transmitted through 5G antennas. The small electronics will be charged automatically as soon as the wearer comes close to a mobile 5G station, and the charging Read more…

Sitecore XP RCE Flaw Patched Last Month Now Actively Exploited The Australian Cyber Security Center (ACSC) is alerting web admins of the active exploitation of CVE-2021-42237, a remote code execution flaw in the Sitecore Experience Platform (Sitecore XP). Sitecore XP is an enterprise-level content management system with data analytics (CMS) Read more…

Samsung Sued for Flawed Chromebook Hinges Cracking Displays Samsung is being sued for selling the Samsung Chromebook Plus 2-in-1 even though they allegedly knew for years of a defect that caused displays to break. The class action lawsuit has been filed by Tony McCoy out of the U.S. District Court for the Read more…

Mozilla Thunderbird 91.3 Released to Fix High Impact Flaws ​Mozilla released  Thunderbird 91.3 to fix several high-impact vulnerabilities that can cause a denial of service, spoof the origin, bypass security policies, and allow arbitrary code execution. Triggering most of the newly discovered bugs requires a user to open a specially Read more…

Samsung Galaxy S21 Hacked on Second Day of Pwn2Own Austin Contestants hacked the Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone during the second day of the Pwn2Own Austin 2021 competition, as well as routers, NAS devices, speakers, and printers from Cisco, TP-Link, Western Digital, Sonos, Canon, Lexmark, and HP. So far, Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative has awarded $777,500 Read more…

Sonos, HP, and Canon Devices Hacked at Pwn2Own Austin 2021 Image: Zero Day Initiative/BleepingComputer During the first day of Pwn2Own Austin 2021, contestants won $362,500 after exploiting previously unknown security flaws to hack printers, routers, NAS devices, and speakers from Canon, HP, Western Digital, Cisco, Sonos, TP-Link, and NETGEAR. At Pwn2Own Austin (previously known as Read more…

Yahoo Becomes the Next US firm to Pull Services Out of China Yahoo is pulling its services out of China, citing an ‘increasingly challenging operating environment.’ This move makes Yahoo the second major American organization to exit the Chinese market in recent weeks, following a similar move by Microsoft’s LinkedIn in Read more…

Facebook Deletes 1 billion Faceprints in Face Recognition Shutdown Facebook announced today that they will no longer use the Face Recognition system on their platform and will be deleting over 1 billion people’s facial recognition profiles. Facebook’s Face Recognition system analyzes photos taken of tagged users and associated users’ profile Read more…

MacOS Monterey Update Causes Some Macs to Become Unbootable A growing number of Mac and Macbook owners report that their devices become unbootable after attempting to update to the latest version of macOS, codenamed ‘Monterey.’ Apple released Monterey last week and made it available to all MacBook Pro and Macbook Read more…

MITRE Shares List of Most Dangerous Hardware Weaknesses MITRE shared a list of the topmost dangerous programming, design, and architecture security flaws plaguing hardware this year. Such weaknesses can be found in hardware programming, design, or architecture, leading to exploitable vulnerabilities and exposing systems to attacks. This list is the result of Read more…