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Who loves a global outage? Phishers, fraudsters and all manner of creeps Well that was fast. Criminals didn't waste any time taking advantage of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft chaos and quickly got to work phishing organizations and spinning up malicious domains purporting to be...
From the editors of Computerworld, this enterprise buyer’s guide helps IT staff understand what the various desk-booking software options can do for their organizations and how to choose the right solution.
Oh, was it supposed to be Y2K24? Today is one of those days that will go down in history as an unmitigated IT disaster, with CrowdStrike responsible for taking systems down all over the globe. We know airports, hospitals and the usual critical infrastructure suspects have...
A defective CrowdStrike update sent computers around the globe into a reboot death spiral, taking down air travel, hospitals, banks, and more with it. Here’s how that’s possible.
Google's URL Shortener service will be fully discontinued after August 25, 2025. Originally transitioned to Firebase Dynamic Links in 2018, the service stopped accepting new URLs but continued to support existing ones. Now, Google has announced it will cease serving these...
The kernel will not consent to execute just any file that happens to be sitting in a filesystem; there are formalities, such as the checking of execute permission and consulting security policies, to get through first. On some systems, security policies have been established ...
CrowdStrike? More like ClownStrike! Amirite? IT administrators are struggling to deal with the ongoing fallout from the faulty CrowdStrike file update. One spoke to The Register to share what it is like at the coalface.…
These bird feeders come with cameras and connected apps to let you see and learn about the birds in your neighborhood.
Links shortened with goo.gl will stop working in 2025 Google will soon make its own contribution to the problem of link rot by shutting down the Google URL Shortener service in 2025.…
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, libndp, openssh, qt5-qtbase, ruby, skopeo, and thunderbird), Debian (thunderbird), Fedora (dotnet6.0, httpd, python-django, python-django4.2, qt6-qtbase, rapidjson, ...
Research released by KnowBe4 shows that 75 percent of security professionals have witnessed employees displaying risky security behaviors at work and 62 percent admit to risky behavior themselves. Top risky things that cybersecurity pros admit to include using entertainment...
Venture capitalists Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen claim the tech industry, California, and the country are doomed if we don’t embrace the former president.
Have you tried turning it off and on again, like, a bunch? Updated Did the CrowdStrike patchpocalypse knock your Azure VMs into a BSOD boot loop? If so, Microsoft has some tips to get them back online.…
Cancer treatments are in jeopardy across multiple healthcare facilities A UK hospital is battling what it is calling a critical incident as the ongoing global IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike update is impacting its Varian system.…
The changes are expected to save incarcerated people and their families at least $500 million a year in exorbitant phone and video call fees.
Outbyte has launched a new app designed to improve energy efficiency for systems running Windows 10 and 11. The free application optimizes CPU performance, reducing power consumption by up to 34 percent and decreasing carbon emissions to support environmental sustainability. ...
Six-hundred-four in a series. Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days. Windows 11 version 23H2 is now broadly available according to Microsoft. This means...
But only for new mobile and broadband contracts, and only from January 2025 UK communications regulator Ofcom has banned mid-contract price rises linked to inflation.…
CrowdStrike has admitted to pushing out a bad software update, causing many Windows machines running the affected software to crash. The problem, apparently affecting its Falcon platform, brought down servers at airlines, locked up computers at banks, and hurt healthcare...
After the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump last weekend, Sticker Mule sent messages to customers suggesting they back Trump and asking to “stop the hate.” That’s not what happened.
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