Computers and other connected devices, including IoT and NAS storage, are compromised through weak credentials, vulnerabilities, exploit kits, and other security weaknesses. These systems join a network of slave devices that can be commanded to perform malicious activities. Attack types commonly associated with botnets are the launch of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, brute-force attacks leading to information theft and ransomware deployment, and the covert installation of cryptocurrency mining software on vulnerable, Internet-facing servers....

There’s no way you can really repay Mom for all the love she gives you, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. And as a public service to every grateful child out there, you should probably know Mom has more than enough flowers, sweaters, candy and spa coupons. So this year, it’s time to step up your gifting game, and this Apple iPad Mini 4 might be just the gift she needs, especially now that you can ship it for free with coupon code SHIP4FREE....

The apps will also get support to implement specific user-centric data governance features, policies, and practices. Mehan Jayasuriya, senior program officer at Mozilla, said the four projects “will pilot new models for data stewardship with existing communities and provide real-world examples of how users and communities can be given greater ownership and control over their own data.” Place Trust is a non-profit working to create maps of cities that are “open, reliable and accessible and place them in a perpetual legal trust in the public interest....

Multichain, previously known as Anyswap, is a cross-blockchain router protocol designed to allow users to swap and exchange digital tokens across chains while reducing fees and streamlining the overall process. However, chaos now reigns in the ecosystem due to a cybersecurity incident caused by a vulnerability in the network, as first reported by Vice. Dedaub reported the vulnerability to Multichain. The company said in a blog post dated January 17 that the critical flaw impacted WETH, PERI, OMT, WBNB, MATIC, and AVAX swaps, but assured users at the time that “all assets on both V2 Bridge and V3 Router are safe [and] all cross-chain transactions can be done safely as usual....

That’s right. You can just pay what you want! Here’s how that works: If you pay less than the average price paid by others, you still get valuable content. However, if you choose to pay more, you get all of the e-books in the bundle. And if you pay more than the leader’s price, you get featured on the Leaderboard and receive an entry in our epic giveaway. The e-books include “Effective DevOps with AWS,” which explains how to maintain AWS-based infrastructure and scale it gracefully and effectively....

But when the panels are turned off, the off-white color doesn’t necessarily blend in. On Thursday, Nanoleaf announced a new line of smart home light panels that move away from what the company is currently known for. The first product in the Nanoleaf Elements line is the Wood Look Hexagons, which, as the name implies, have a wood grain look on their front. Instead of RBG lights, Nanoleaf has gone with more traditional white lighting, with options ranging from 1500-4000K (cool to warm light)....

Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, a Canadian citizen, received the Canadian prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to five charges related to “theft of computer data, extortion, the payment of cryptocurrency ransoms, and participating in the activities of a criminal organisation”. The charges in Canada were for Vachon-Desjardins’s involvement in 17 ransomware attacks that caused at least $2.8 million in damages. He also received an additional 54-month sentence in Canada for trafficking drugs in Quebec in the following weeks....

Don’t believe that DevOps is a better career move? Just look at the numbers. The 2021 Open Source Jobs Report found that 88% of technology professionals surveyed use DevOps practices in their work. A glance for DevOps Engineer jobs on Dice, the technology job website, showed that there were over 37,000 job openings in mid-October. By Glassdoor’s count, the average DevOps Engineer salary is just over $105,000 a year. That’s nothing to sneeze at!...

The banner block thus far has been last month’s pause by Discord on plans to integrate crypto wallets into its product, after users started cancelling subscriptions en masse. The big lesson here is if users want to impact a company’s direction, hitting them in the hip pocket works. At the time of writing, another pair of pushback events are taking place. Kickstarter’s plan to essentially refactor its core functionality on a distributed blockchain protocol, for seemingly no good reason other than it can, has not been entirely well-received, with comic, video game, and music creators taking to social media to decry the move....

Defenders shouldn’t disable PowerShell, a scripting language, because it is a useful command-line interface for Windows that can help with forensics, incident response and automating desktop tasks, according to joint advice from the US spy service the National Security Agency (NSA), the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the New Zealand and UK national cybersecurity centres. It also lets admins automate security tasks on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform....

During those elections last month, an unknown number of voters were unable to cast a vote due to the state’s iVote online voting system suffering a failure for a portion of the voting period. In the immediate aftermath, the NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) attributed the iVote online voting system failure to a higher-than-expected elector load, with around 650,000 people using the system during the local elections last month. “Almost triple the number of voters have used iVote at these elections than any previous election,” NSWEC said....

Healthcare facilities use clinical algorithms to help decide how medical care is doled out to patients, and many hospitals use a process called “race norming” – also known as race adjustment. It has been proven to negatively impact the care Black and Latino residents of the city receive. The announcement includes examples of real-world situations impacting the city’s residents, including an “adjustment” factor for Black patients in reference to kidney function....

That effort has so far failed, says Luis Ceze, who is co-founder and CEO of startup OctoML, which develops tools to automate machine learning. “It’s still pretty early to turn ML into a common practice,” Ceze told ZDNet in an interview via Zoom. “That’s why I’m a critic of MLOps: we’re giving a name for something that’s not very well defined, and there’s something that’s very well defined, called DevOps, that’s a very well defined process of taking software to production, and I think that we should be using that....

Overcoming that display limitation is just one of the benefits of Astro. In a world where faceless discs have dutifully sucked up carpet detritus for years, Astro is a category-defining robot that seeks to introduce us to a future of robots that extend well beyond the STEM-focused educational toys that dominate the fledgling category today, a future that can offer us everything from the pet-like benefits of companionship and protection to the kind of help with manual or dangerous tasks that Elon Musk has promised for his humanoid domestic servant....

Okta, an enterprise identity and access management firm, launched an inquiry after the LAPSUS$ hacking group posted screenshots on Telegram that the hackers claimed were taken after obtaining access to “Okta.com Superuser/Admin and various other systems.” The images were shared over Telegram and various social media networks this week. “For a service that powers authentication systems to many of the largest corporations (and FEDRAMP approved) I think these security measures are pretty poor[…],” LAPSUS$ said....

The Oppo Find N was the company’s answer to Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold series, but the Find N was only sold in China. It had a 7.1-inch primary (unfolded) screen and a 5.49-inch secondary (folded) screen. The company now appears set to mirror Samsung’s dual Z Flip and Z Fold lineup with two foldable devices under the Find N brand, which are rumoured to use Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset – as seen in Samsung’s 4th-generation foldables....

“Clearly, our strategy to develop cloud applications with cloud infrastructure is now beginning to drive top-line growth,” Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison said on a conference call Tuesday. The company, he said, aims to build upon its strong ERP foundation and expand into manufacturing, CRM and industry-specific applications. Oracle’s non-GAAP net income in Q4 was up 20% to $4.5 billion, with non-GAAP earnings per share reaching $1.54. Total quarterly revenues were up 8% year-over-year to $11....

If you’ve been waiting for another sale on the Kindle Kids Edition, this is back at its lowest price ever. The Kindle has a 6-inch glare-free screen and 4 LED lights built in so kids can read whether they’re on a road trip or reading before bedtime. Kids will read crystal clear words on the screen with 167ppi, and if your kid is still building their reading skills, the Kindle offers many fonts, including an OpenDyslexic font to ensure they can enjoy reading....

On February 13, the tech giant said that the vulnerability impacts Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source, and according to the firm’s threat data, the security flaw is being weaponized “in very limited attacks targeting Adobe Commerce merchants.” Tracked as CVE-2022-24086, the vulnerability has been issued a CVSS severity score of 9.8 out of 10, the maximum severity rating possible. The vulnerability is an improper input validation issue, described by the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) category system as a bug that occurs when a “product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly....

Also: Cybersecurity: These are the new things to worry about in 2023 How bad is it? Originally, the ZDI rated it a perfect 10 on the 0 to 10 common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) scale. Now, the hole’s “only” a 9.6. That still counts as a “Patch it! Patch it now!” bug on anyone’s Linux server. The problem lies in the Linux 5.15 in-kernel Server Message Block (SMB) server, ksmbd....