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NVIDIA officially entered the Windows PC race this week, and its arrival brings a formidable new competitor to the premium AI PC market. With its RTX Spark platform, NVIDIA is bringing its Grace Arm CPU architecture, Blackwell GPU technology and extensive software ecosystem together in a new generation of Windows laptops. Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra […] more…A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn’t.
Until recently, many tech professionals viewed themselves as a special and respected worker class: highly educated, hard-working, well paid, and in demand. “They considered themselves above unions,” says Zak Thompson, senior software engineer at Kickstarter and union steward at Kickstarter United. Big Tech issued aspirational mission statements that motivated workers, workplaces were seen as meritocracies, […] more…Welcome to AI’s creepy era
For the past few days, I’ve been immersed in Google’s latest vision of the future — an AI-infused dashboard that taps into info from all of your Google app activity and then uses that data to cook up a series of daily “stories” designed to “connect you with what matters.” And — believe me, I […] more…Malicious Injection Redirects Traffic via Parked Domain
During a recent investigation, our malware remediation team encountered a variant of a common malware injection that has been active since at least 2017. The malware was found hijacking the website’s traffic, redirecting visitors via a parked third-party domain to generate ad revenue. Investigating obfuscated JavaScript Our investigation revealed the following piece of obfuscated JavaScript […] more…What Women Latina Need in a Marriage
The basic points that women latin want in a marriage will be respect, pride, and ambiance. If you are considering about marrying a Latin woman, you have to know that the girl with just as competent of getting committed as any person. In other words, would need to know what the woman with looking for […] more…An In-Depth Technical Analysis of CurveBall (CVE-2020-0601)
by: John Simpson (Vulnerability Researcher) The first Microsoft patch Tuesday of 2020 contained fixes for CVE-2020-0601, a vulnerability discovered by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) that affects how cryptographic certificates are verified by one of the core cryptography libraries in Windows that make up part of the CryptoAPI system. Dubbed CurveBall or “Chain […] more…Old Themes, Abandoned Scripts and Pitfalls of Cleaning Serialized Data
Over the summer we’ve seen waves of WordPress database infections that use vulnerabilities in tagDiv’s Newspaper/Newsmag themes or InterconnectIT Search and Replace scripts (searchreplacedb2.php). The injections range from ad scripts coming from established ad networks like shorte.st to new domains created specifically for those attacks. Typical injected scripts look like this: <s cript type=’text/javascript’ src=’hxxps://con1.sometimesfree[.]biz/c.js’></script> […] more…Malware and non-malware ways for ATM jackpotting. Extended cut
Cash machines have been part of our lives since 1967 when a London branch of Barclays Bank unveiled the first ATM. Millions of people around the world now use ATMs every day to withdraw cash, pay in to their account or make a variety of payments. When using ATMs people give little or no thought […] more…Isolated Heap for Internet Explorer Helps Mitigate UAF Exploits
In the recent Microsoft security bulletin for Internet Explorer, we found an interesting improvement for mitigating UAF (User After Free) vulnerability exploits. The improvement, which we will name as “isolated heap”, is designed to prepare an isolated heap for many objects which often suffers from UAF vulnerabilities. Let’s use Internet Explorer 11 as an example. Before it […] more…More information
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