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Research by the IoT Security Foundation (IoTSF) – a tech industry group that aims to help encourage securing the Internet of Things – analysed hundreds of popular IoT product manufacturers and found that only just over one in five advertise a public channel for reporting security vulnerabilities in order for them to be fixed. The 21% of vendors offering this kind of channel has risen slightly since last year, something that the IoT Security Foundation report describes as “glacial” progress on providing what it describes as “a basic hygiene mechanism”....

The iQOO 9T is one of the few phones sporting the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 processor, superfast LPDDR5 RAM, and 120W FlashCharge. These are primarily flagship specifications for a price hundreds less than most flagships. It is a big phone, but feels great in the hand with a metal frame and frosted rear glass panel. Also: eSIM vs SIM: What’s the difference? I’ve been using the 12/256GB model of the phone with my T-Mobile SIM card....

The Paperwhite, to be frank, is a nearly perfect e-reader device, according to our ZDNet reviewer Jason Cipriani who tested the device upon its release last fall. Featuring the long-desired warm reading light, a thin bezel so you can adjust the text to your preferences, and a 10-week battery life, the e-reader will keep your packing light while making sure you can read long into the night. If you have been looking for a solid e-reader, be sure to pick this up today – the deal is for today only so you need to order today to take advantage of the $45 savings....

“Vulnerabilities to data integrity,” states the rule, invoking the now-familiar nightmare scenario for 5G Wireless, “can be created by including a foreign adversary’s hardware and software into U.S. networks and systems. This incorporated hardware and software pose opportunities to add or remove important information, modify files or data streams, slow down, or otherwise modify the normal transmission or availability of data across U.S. networks. Such capabilities could be exercised in areas as diverse as financial market communications, satellite communications or control, or sensitive consumer information....

Smartphones are having a bumper year in 2021 after a slowdown in 2020 due to the pandemic, but analyst firm Canalys reckons bottlenecks in the supply of components will restrict growth in the coming year. The world is still facing chip supply constraints that have affected all industry sectors, from smartphones to vehicles: analyst firm Gartner estimates that the semiconductor shortage will last well into 2022. “Backorders are building,” says Canalys research manager, Ben Stanton....

But that hope was soon removed once the Apple TV 4K was released, with no Find My support in sight. Since then, my kids and I have lost our Siri Remote at least 1,334 times. Sure, most of the time, it’s between the couch cushions, but there are random instances of someone walking off to a different room with it, resulting in a few hours of accusations and searching. However, Nomad’s latest leather-bound accessory fixes that problem....

An Apple M1 chip, a 12MP Ultra Wide camera, and 5G cellular capabilities highlight some of the major features on this 5th-generation iPad Air. Its 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display makes it a perfect tablet for streaming, gaming, working as it is compatible with Apple’s Smart Keyboard Folio and Magic Keyboard. The days of the home button and front camera taking up space on the screen are long-gone. Now, the Touch ID reader is located in the top button rather than the home button in prior iPads....

Hive emerged in June 2021 and was spotlighted by the FBI in an alert two months later. In November, European electronics retail giant MediaMarkt also got stung by Hive. It’s another ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) double-extortion gang that has recently been targeting vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers, vulnerable RDP servers, compromised VPN credentials, and phishing to deploy their ransomware and steal leak-worthy information. Hive’s Rust migration has been underway for a few months as it adopted lessons from BlackCat ransomware, which is also written in Rust....

HTML smuggling lets an attacker “smuggle” an encoded malicious script within a specially crafted HTML attachment or web page. It’s a “highly evasive” malware delivery technique that uses legitimate HTML5 and JavaScript features warns the Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team. It’s a nasty trick that bypasses standard network perimeter security, such as web proxies and email gateways, since the malware is built inside the network after an employee opens a web page or attachment with the malicious HTML script....

But I also understand that some people just don’t want to have to swap out their smartphone in order to get access to this useful superpower. Also: My favorite electric screwdriver for heavy-duty jobs If you don’t want to have to buy a new smartphone, then this is the tool for you: the InfiRay P2 Pro. InfiRay P2 Pro tech specs 256x192 IR resolution.256x192 IR resolution.-20°C to 550°C ± 2°C temperature range....

The list in the “2021 Q2 Spotlight Report: Top 10 Threat Detections for Microsoft Azure AD and Office 365” is topped by O365 risky exchange operations, Azure AD suspicious operations, and O365 suspicious download activity. Between January and March, Vectra saw a startling increase in detections centered on attackers trying to manipulate Exchange in order to gain access to specific data or further attack progression. More than 70% of Vectra’s customers triggered that detection per week, according to their data....

The report sent Twilio shares soaring by 24% in late trading. The upbeat report follows a report in late October that caused as sell-off in Twilio stock on a decline in customer retention at the time. CEO and founder Jeff Lawson remarked that the quarter “capped off an amazing year of results as we delivered more than $2.8 billion in revenue for the year, growing 61% year-over-year.” Added Lawson, “The combination of our leading cloud communications platform with Twilio Segment’s #1 customer data platform gives Twilio an unparalleled view into the customer journey, and I’ve never been more excited about the future of the company than I am today....

High-quality images, along with 4K and even 5.4K video takes up a crazy amount of space, and if you don’t plan for it right at the start, you’ll quickly get swamped by it. I’ve been a pro-am photographer for years and know just how quickly gigabytes can fill up, but even that didn’t prepare me for getting into drone photography and videography. There are two aspects to handling the photos and video once they have been captured onto high-quality microSD cards (I only use SanDisk Pro or Extreme Pro cards from reputable suppliers – cheap cards can’t handle the data speeds needed for 4K and 5....

The Open App Markets Act, introduced by Democrats Richard Blumenthal and Amy Klobuchar, and Republican Marsha Blackburn, specifically targets Apple and Google and their respective app stores. The senators said the Bill aims to set fair, clear, and enforceable rules to protect competition and strengthen consumer protections within the app market. In a statement, the trio said Apple and Google have gatekeeper control of the two dominant mobile operating systems....

EASE is a set of data plane services for networking, security and observability – delivered with a unique scale-out distributed architecture that allows an EASE environment to grow and shrink as app needs change. In other words, as you expand your application up and down with more traffic, VMware can expand the infrastructure so services like the firewall or load balancer also get bigger or smaller to meet the needs of the application....

Just recently, 1MORE released the spatial audio-supported Aero buds. On the surface, they may seem like just another pair of earbuds that connects wirelessly, but with an ultra-lightweight design, comfortable ear tip cushions, and another hotly-contested audio feature: active noise cancellation (ANC), you may want to read the rest of this review before you let them slip through the cracks. Specifications The practicality of long-stemmed buds The first thing I noticed with the 1MORE Aero was how lightweight they felt....

Most people have a few options for saving for retirement. You can, of course, save your money in an ordinary savings account if you’d like, but doing so means there’s no extra benefit in terms of your taxes. Some people have access to a retirement plan through work, often called a 401(k) , a 403(b) if they work for a nonprofit, or a Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) if they work for the government....

That’s not being hyperbolic. Third parties are constantly collecting data from users, via web browsers, all over the world. And you may prefer not to have that data collected. But what can you do? Also: Now ChatGPT is coming to your web browser, too First off, you can choose the right browser. If you check most lists of the best browsers for security, you’ll find one particular browser regularly left out… Chrome....

Quantum computers powerful enough to break public-key encryption are still years away, but when it happens, they could be a major threat to national security, and financial and private data. Some projects such as OpenSSH have implemented mitigations for the event that an attacker steals encrypted data today, with the hope of decrypting it when such a computer exists. But so far there are no official US standards for quantum-resistant cryptography....

Microsoft has released Windows 11 preview build 22000.194 to the Insiders Beta Channel, bringing seven bug fixes, updates to the Snipping Tool, Calculator and Clock apps. Microsoft is also testing the new Photos app with a new preview for Dev Channel Insiders. These apps, as well as the Mail & Calendar apps, are among the first to get updated and will be part of the Windows 11 release. SEE: Windows 11: Here’s how to get Microsoft’s free operating system update In Windows 11, the classic screen capture Snipping Tool and Snip & Sketch apps are swapped with a new Snipping Tool....