Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Exploit code was released this week for a just-patched vulnerability in VMware Cloud Foundation and NSX Manager appliances that allows hackers with no authentication to execute malicious code with the highest system privileges. VMware patched the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-39144, on Tuesday and issued it a severity rating of 9.8 out...
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Meet the Windows servers that have been fueling massive DDoSes for months
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) A small retail business in North Africa, a North American telecommunications provider, and two separate religious organizations: What do they have in common? They’re all running poorly configured Microsoft servers that for months or years have been spraying the Internet with gigabytes-per-second of junk data in distributed-denial-of-service attacks designed...
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Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Deal to Own Twitter
The world’s richest man closed his blockbuster purchase of the social media service, thrusting Twitter into a new era.
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Apple Earnings: iPhone Powers Growth, but Signs Point to a Slowdown
Consumers showed enthusiasm for the latest version of the phone, but the company said sales in the current quarter are not as strong.
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Amazon Earnings: Return to Profitability But Slow Growth Signaled Ahead
The e-commerce giant, which also turned a profit in its latest quarter, indicated sales in the holiday period might rise at their lowest level since 2001.
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Chip Makers, Once in High Demand, Confront Sudden Challenges
Demand for semiconductors was off the charts last year. But a sharp slowdown coupled with new U.S. restrictions against China have created obstacles.
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Elon Musk Completes $44 Billion Deal to Own Twitter
The world’s richest man closed his blockbuster purchase of the social media service, thrusting Twitter into a new era.
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Redditor acquires decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage
Enlarge / An Open Connect Appliance server from around 2013 that a Redditor acquired. (credit: PoisonWaffle3 / Reddit) A Reddit user named PoisonWaffe3 recently acquired a 2013-era Netflix cache server that had been pulled from service and wiped for disposal, which marks a rare occasion the public has been able to get a look at...
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Apple clarifies security update policy: Only the latest OSes are fully patched
Enlarge / The default wallpaper for macOS 11 Big Sur. (credit: Apple) Earlier this week, Apple released a document clarifying its terminology and policies around software upgrades and updates. Most of the information in the document isn’t new, but the company did provide one clarification about its update policy that it hadn’t made explicit before:...
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(BPRW) What African Americans and Other Minorities Need to Know About Their Risks for Cancer
(Black PR Wire) The good news on cancer? According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), cancer incidence and mortality overall are declining in all population groups in the U.S.—due in large part to impressive advances in diagnosis and treatment