2020-11-13 10:33:53 www.zdnet.com Cryptocurrency borrowing and lending service Akropolis says a hacker used a "flash loan" attack against its platform and stole roughly $2 million worth of Dai cryptocurrency. The attack took place yesterday afternoon (GMT timezone), and Akropolis…
2020-11-13 06:44:00 www.zdnet.com Flying in the face of claims by President Donald Trump of voting fraud, the US Department of Homeland Security says the 2020 presidential election was in fact the most secure in US history. In a statement, the…
2020-11-13 08:00:00 www.zdnet.com I think we can all agree that last year's Pixel 4 (and Pixel 4 XL ) was Google's worst smartphone showing thus far . It was so bad, it raised questions about whether Google should even…
2020-11-13 05:02:07 www.zdnet.com Amazon has filed a lawsuit against Instagram and TikTok personalities for allegedly participating in a scheme to sell counterfeit luxury goods. Filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and made…
2020-11-13 00:40:03 www.zdnet.com Image: Gabriel Gurrola Vertafore, a provider of insurance software, has disclosed this week a data breach, admitting that a third-party accessed the details of 27.7 million Texas drivers. The incident took place on March 11 and…
2020-11-12 23:13:12 www.zdnet.com Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet The federal government published on Friday its response to the inquiry into 5G by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts, and of the 14 recommendations made, it only…
2020-11-12 20:06:42 www.zdnet.com Image: TikTok The US Commerce Department has said it will not enforce an executive order that would have effectively forced TikTok to shut down in order to comply with a Pennsylvanian federal court decision. "The Secretary's…
2020-11-12 19:07:00 www.zdnet.com The Australian government has issued a security alert today urging local health sector organizations to check their cyber-security defenses, and especially their controls for detecting and stopping ransomware attacks. The Australian Cyber Security Center said it…
2020-11-12 09:48:00 www.zdnet.com Unlike many fellow retailers, Staples is displaying some patience when it comes to its Black Friday plans. It's waited longer than many to release its Black Friday ad, and its deal schedule just spans a single…
2020-11-12 12:00:03 www.zdnet.com Google Cloud is launching its Database Migration Service (DMS), a serverless tool to migrate MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server databases to Cloud SQL with a few clicks. Andi Gutmans, vice president of databases at Google Cloud,…
2020-11-12 13:37:01 www.zdnet.com Apple's Big Sur update for the Mac is now available to download. Image: Apple Apple on Thursday released the next big software update for its Mac computer lineup, MacOS 11 Big Sur. The update is available in the Mac…
2020-11-12 09:54:10 www.zdnet.com A USB docking station is a useful accessory for any laptop owner, whether you're working from home or have braved the daily commute to return to your normal office routine. We've previously covered USB docking stations,…
2020-11-12 09:00:05 www.zdnet.com The SQL editor in Databricks' new SQL Analytics Workspace Credit: Databricks Data analytics contender Databricks offers a platform that, along with the open source Apache Spark technology on which its core is based, has long been…
2020-11-12 00:01:03 www.zdnet.com Clockwise: Switch, FedEx and Dell Technologies are partnering on edge computing services. Dell Technologies, FedEx and data center company Switch said they will team up to create a network of multi-cloud edge computing sites. The move…
2020-11-12 00:20:03 www.zdnet.com Microsoft is urging users to abandon telephone-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions like one-time codes sent via SMS and voice calls and instead replace them with newer MFA technologies, like app-based authenticators and security keys. The warning…
2020-11-11 16:21:24 www.zdnet.com In a car crash scenario outlined by Amazon, the AWS Wavelength edge computing service uses the 5G wireless network from Verizon to send messages from the impact vehicle back along the lane to vehicles in the…
2020-11-11 17:16:15 www.zdnet.com Amazon today announced it has extended its program for data cleansing, known as Glue, with a visual user interface that automates some steps necessary to prepare data, to simplify the task for non-coders.Called DataBrew, the program…
2020-11-11 17:40:00 www.zdnet.com Image: Mitchell Luo Google has released today Chrome version 86.0.4240.198 to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in the wild.These two bugs mark the fourth and fifth zero-days that Google has patched in Chrome over…
2020-11-11 16:55:06 www.zdnet.com Image: Asha Barbaschow/ZDNet The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has broken out its wet lettuce and only issued a direction for Telstra to comply with the Telecommunications Consumer Protections (TCP) code after the telco reported…
2020-11-11 13:32:18 www.zdnet.com Two recent ransomware waves that targeted Israeli companies have been traced back to Iranian threat actors, multiple sources have told ZDNet today.The ransomware attacks have been taking place since mid-October, have ramped up this month, and have repeatedly…
2020-11-11 12:50:23 www.zdnet.com Microsoft has named former McAfee CEO Christopher Young as its Executive Vice President of Business Development. Young replaces former Microsoft Business Development chief Peggy Johnson, who left Microsoft in July to become CEO of Magic Leap.…
2020-11-11 09:00:05 www.zdnet.com Intel Server GPU Image: Intel Intel has debuted its first discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) for the data centre, Intel Server GPU, which is based on the Xe-LP architecture and is designed specifically for high-density, low-latency…
2020-11-11 07:28:00 www.zdnet.com I've just again re-watched Apple's M1 chip unveiling event, and I'm left with more questions than answers.The first thing that's been bugging me is who the event was aimed at. OK, the simple answer is tech…
2020-11-11 06:16:18 www.zdnet.com Business enthusiasm for 5G remains limited, with research suggesting just 15% of UK businesses are currently investing in 5G. Sceptical executives with constrained investment budgets through 2021 might choose to wait before exploring next-generation networks. However,…
2020-11-11 01:00:03 www.zdnet.com Image: Facebook Multiple data-scraping groups have abused the Facebook link preview feature to scrape data from internet sites disguised as Facebook's content crawler. The technique consisted of using Facebook developer accounts to place calls to Facebook…
2020-11-11 00:01:03 www.zdnet.com Dell Technologies on Wednesday rolled out a series of updates to its storage and data protection portfolio, including expanded integrations between the PowerProtect and VMware Tanzu portfolios. Specifically, Dell is introducing the PowerProtect DP series appliances,…
2020-11-10 13:00:00 www.zdnet.com A team of academics has disclosed today a new attack method that can extract data from Intel CPUs. Named Platypus, an acronym for "Power Leakage Attacks: Targeting Your Protected User Secrets," the attack targets the RAPL interface of Intel processors.RAPL, which stands for Running Average…
2020-11-10 14:09:00 www.zdnet.com Apple aggressively rolled out its M1 system on a chip across its Mac portfolio -- MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini -- in a strategy that may equate to a transition away from Intel processors…
2020-11-10 14:30:00 www.zdnet.com It's here: The Mac's biggest day since Apple switched to Intel chips. Starting Nov. 10, Apple begins the transition to Apple Silicon with the first chip called the M1. Here's what we know about it. Apple…
2020-11-10 13:45:00 www.zdnet.com Apple Apple held what's likely to be its final special event of the year on Nov. 10. Apple used the event, called One More Thing, to dive deeper into details about the company's switch from Intel…
2020-11-10 12:00:03 www.zdnet.com InfluxData, a time-series database platform provider that already has distinct cloud and open source/on-premises versions, is adding to the stew. It is announcing upgrades to the 2.0 generation of the open source platform that includes some…
2020-11-10 09:26:54 www.zdnet.com Avaya is adding a new video conferencing layout to Avaya Spaces for folks that have to be the center of attention.The company is rolling out a 61-participant concert view that puts the speaker in the center…
2020-11-10 06:15:56 www.zdnet.com Chainlink VRF (Verifiable Randomness Function) has recently gone live on the Ethereum mainnet, and the no-loss lottery game PoolTogether is the first project to adopt it. Verifiable randomness is extremely important, and is critical to the…