RCE in Sophos Firewall is being exploited in the wild (CVE-2022-3236)
Sophos has patched an actively exploited remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2022-3236) in its Firewall solutions, and has pushed the fix to customers who have automatic installation of hotfixes enabled. If this news triggers a feeling of déjà.....»»
Google patches actively exploited Android vulnerability (CVE-2024-43093)
Google has delivered fixes for two vulnerabilities endangering Android users that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”: CVE-2024-43047, a flaw affecting Qualcomm chipsets, and CVE-2024-43093, a vulnerability in the Google Play fr.....»»
Millions of Synology NAS devices vulnerable to zero-click attacks (CVE-2024-10443)
Synology has released fixes for an unauthenticated “zero-click” remote code execution flaw (CVE-2024-10443, aka RISK:STATION) affecting its popular DiskStation and BeeStation network attached storage (NAS) devices. About CVE-2024-10443 CV.....»»
New trigger proposed for record-smashing 2022 Tonga eruption—unstudied data from seismic wave points to early signals
Fifteen minutes before the massive January 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, a seismic wave was recorded by two distant seismic stations. Now, researchers argue that similar early signals could be used to warn of other impending.....»»
23 Years of the iPod: How Elite Obsolete Electronics keeps the music playing
There’s probably enough material to produce a book about the importance of the iPod to Apple’s history (and revenue). Yet, the company said goodbye to the brand in 2022 as it finally discontinued the last edition of the iPod Touch. There is a sma.....»»
Amazon Kindle (2024) vs. Kindle (2022): Should you upgrade?
The Kindle is an excellent e-reader, but do you need the new Kindle (2024) if you already have the 2022 model? Let's find out......»»
Don"t wait! The M2 iPad Air just dropped to $498 on Amazon
At $800 off, this is a massive price cut for an M2-powered 2022 2TB Apple iPad Pro — a terrific discount for a tablet with plenty of on-board storage.....»»
Sophos mounted counter-offensive operation to foil Chinese attackers
Sophos conducted defensive and counter-offensive operation over the last five years with multiple interlinked nation-state adversaries based in China targeting perimeter devices, including Sophos Firewalls. Espionage campaigns tied to Chinese hacking.....»»
How researchers can maximize biological insights using animal-tracking devices
Biologgers allow us to see with unprecedented precision how animals move and behave in the wild. But that's only part of the picture, according to a UC Santa Cruz ecologist renowned for using biologging data to tell a deeper story about the lives of.....»»
New Age ritual that send "bad energies" up in smoke may contribute to overharvesting of wild plants
A commercialized New Age ritual is causing not only "unwanted energies" to go up in smoke, but also foreign wild plants. A study by Utrecht University researchers Isabela Pombo Geertsma and Anastasia Stefanaki, alongside colleagues from Wageningen UR.....»»
Record-breaking Saharan dust events hit Spain between 2020 and 2022, study confirms
A study by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), an agency dependent on the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain, concludes that the most intense Saharan dust events ever recorded in the air quality monitoring networks of.....»»
Indonesia study evaluates potential of alternative measures for biodiversity conservation
At COP16 in Calí, Colombia, member states are currently discussing how the global nature agreement adopted in Montreal in 2022 can be implemented. The goals include protecting 30% of the world's land and sea areas by 2030......»»
"Sexual precarity": How insecure work puts migrants at risk of being sexually harassed, assaulted or trafficked
Some of the ways migrants are exploited in the workforce get a lot of public attention. We hear tragic stories about wage theft, forced unpaid overtime, unsafe work conditions or discrimination. And we are likely to hear more such grim stories reveal.....»»
Tap to Pay on iPhone comes to more European countries
Apple has launched its Tap to Pay on iPhone feature in five more EU countries, the slow rollout that began wit the US in 2022.Tap to Pay on iPhoneIt was in May 2022 that US iPhone users gained the ability to pay other iPhone users without any extra h.....»»
High school students present five new ways of proving Pythagoras" Theorem via trigonometry
In 2022, U.S. high school students Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson astonished teachers when they discovered a new way to prove Pythagoras' theorem using trigonometry after entering a competition at their local high school. As a result, both studen.....»»
Entry-level iPad to be updated in early 2025
Following updates to the rest of the iPad lineup during 2024, the lowest-cost model is now expected to see a refresh in spring of 2025.The 10th generation iPad came in multiple colors in 2022The regular iPad was last updated in October 2022, and this.....»»
Week in review: Fortinet patches critical FortiManager 0-day, VMware fixes vCenter Server RCE
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Fortinet releases patches for publicly undisclosed critical FortiManager vulnerability In the last couple of days, Fortinet has released critical se.....»»
Cisco issues emergency fix for VPN tool, users told to update now
Actively-exploited bugs have no workarounds, Cisco warns......»»
iOS 18.2 lets you add the volume slider back to your iPhone’s Lock Screen
With the release of iOS 16 in 2022, Apple removed the volume slider from the iPhone Lock Screen except while using AirPlay. In iOS 18.2, however, Apple has decided to bring back that capability with a new “Always Show Volume Control” option in th.....»»
Exploited: Cisco, SharePoint, Chrome vulnerabilities
Threat actors have been leveraging zero and n-day vulnerabilities in Cisco security appliances (CVE-2024-20481), Microsoft Sharepoint (CVE-2024-38094), and Google’s Chrome browser (CVE-2024-4947). CVE-2024-20481 (Cisco ASA/FTD) In the past few.....»»
Poaching suspected as camera traps find only 11 Sumatran tigers in 2 years
Camera-trap monitoring detected only 11 individual Sumatran tigers (Panthera tigris sumatrae) and no cubs between 2020 and 2022 in the Ulu Masen Ecosystem, Sumatra Island, Indonesia, reports a paper published in Scientific Reports. The high proportio.....»»