What are Smart Home Locks? Smart home locks, like KeyWe, are sold as devices that allow consumers to get into their homes more conveniently. These devices allow users to open and close doors in their home by using an app on their smartphone. The KeyWe Smart Lock includes several security features, including data encryption. These features were implemented to prevent hackers from accessing system critical information like the secret passphrase. However, a Finland based security company, F-Secure Consulting, found that they were able to easily bypass KeyWe’s security features....

Would you like to learn how to code the easy way, with a program so easy that kids can use it? Scratch is a visual programming tool that MIT developed. And not only is it easy to learn for both children and adults, but it’s also free! So all you need to do is learn how to use it, and you can train at your own pace with the five highly-rated courses in the 2023 Coding with Scratch Programming Bundle....

Fans who are traveling outside their home country may face problems while watching their usual tennis streams due to geo-blocking. You can follow the quick guide below to bypass geo-restrictions and watch the US Open from anywhere: The qualifying rounds of the tournament were held between 24 August and 27 August 2021. 16 men and women secured three victories in four days to secure their qualification into the main draw of the US Open....

Jonathan Bar Or explained on Twitter that while he was hunting for a Log4J exploit attempt, he noticed attacks coming from serv-u.exe. “Taking a closer looked revealed you could feed Ssrv-U with data and it’ll build an LDAP query with your unsanitized input! This could be used for log4j attack attempts, but also for LDAP injection,” he wrote. “Solarwinds immediately responded, investigated and fixed the #vulnerability. Their response is the quickest I’ve seen, really amazing work on their part!...

On Friday 9 December, the information security world was rocked by the disclosure of Log4j (CVE-2021-44228), a zero-day vulnerability in the widely used Java logging library Apache Log4j, which allows attackers to remotely execute code and gain access to machines. Not only is the vulnerability relatively simple to take advantage of, the ubiquitous nature of Log4j means that it’s embedded in a vast array of applications, services and enterprise software tools that are written in Java – and used by organisations and individuals around the world....

The most recent mouse to enter this rarified air is the Logitech G303 Daedalus Apex, or just the G303 as most people called it. Released in 2015, the G303 stood out in a crowd, eschewing the gentle curves and rounded ergonomics of contemporaries in favor of an unusual diamond-like shape, dramatically tapering side panels, and an almost flat top. The model quickly gained and maintained, for these past seven years, a following among gamers that felt they’d finally found a level of control that more traditionally shaped mice of the era never offered them....

I’ve been testing the newest entry in Logitech’s growing line of Brio webcams over the past week and will reserve my final judgment (and rating) for some time later. What’s certain to me is that it’s an impressive computer-top camera, with several smart features that are clearly becoming a commonality in this new wave of hybrid webcams. More: The 10 best webcams you can buy today Let’s get the basics out of the way first....

“We’re building Lyft Maps to be able to optimize the entire Lyft experience,” Lyft co-founder and President John Zimmer said on the conference call. “We’re incredibly excited about this work. The team has been heads down for several years.” Lyft’s decision to build its own mapping platform may seem strange, given that Google and Apple have already spent several years and huge sums of money to create top-notch maps that are nearly ubiquitous....

Crypto investing isn’t currently up yet on M1’s platform, but M1’s investors can sign up on a waitlist to begin crypto trading on its new interactive portfolio dashboard called Pies. M1, however, didn’t provide a date when investors will be able to start crypto trading other than to keep an eye out for it in the coming months. Available cryptocurrency includes Bitcoin, Ethereum, and, according to the company’s blog post, “other large-cap liquid crypto assets....

In addition, the company is reducing its portfolio management fee from 0.35% to 0.25%. These are welcomed changes to the robo-advisory investment platform. A robo-advisor investment platform manages a selection of portfolios on behalf of investors. According to Harshal Goel, managing director of Marcus by Goldman Sachs, portfolios are based on models created by the Goldman Sachs Investment strategy group. The portfolios are matched with investors based on their answers to questions as they create an account, as well as according to investment goals they set....

You’re desperate to get away, but the virus has kept you at home. You want everything to be back to normal, but you fear it never will be. You simply want to feel good again. You want fulfillment in your life, or at least something that resembles it. Please don’t worry, there’s finally a solution and it comes from that fine purveyor of relaxing environments, Marriott. The hotel chain is promising to give you a more fulfilling travel experience....

The company beat analyst expectations, which had estimated that Q4 earnings per share would come in at $2.19. Revenue for the full year is also up 23% to $18.9 billion. Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach said in the press release that the increase in revenue is due in part to an increase in consumer cross-border spending, which the company reports is now above pre-pandemic levels. Mastercard’s full-year EPS was reported at $8....

The BlenderBot 3 demo is accessible online for US-based visitors and should be available in other countries soon. “BlenderBot 3 is capable of searching the internet to chat about virtually any topic, and it’s designed to learn how to improve its skills and safety through natural conversations and feedback from people ‘in the wild’,” Meta says in a blogpost. A key part of Meta’s research in releasing the chatbot to the public is to help develop safety measures for the chatbot....

During the week, PrintNightware, a critical Windows print spooler vulnerability that allowed for remote code execution was known as CVE-2021-1675. Exploits were publicly available after Microsoft’s patches failed to fix the issue completely and the security researchers had already published their code, said they deleted it, but it was already branched on GitHub. In short, if it was a supported version of Windows, it had a hole in it. “Microsoft has partially addressed this issue in their update for CVE-2021-1675....

The patches released address common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in: Microsoft Windows and Windows Components; Azure, Azure Arc, and Azure DevOps; Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based); Office and Office Components; Visual Studio Code; Active Directory Domain Services and Active Directory Certificate Services; Nu Get Client; Hyper-V; and the Windows Resilient File System (ReFS). This release comes on top of 12 patches for CVEs in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) released earlier this month. Also: What, exactly, is cybersecurity?...

The security flaws impact Microsoft products including Windows, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office and more, some of which have been targeted by malicious hackers for months. Two of the critical updates address security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, which have actively been under attack since September – CVE-2022-41028 and CVE-2022-41040. Also: The scary future of the internet: How the tech of tomorrow will pose even bigger cybersecurity threats CVE-2022-41040 is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, an exploit that allows attackers to make server-side application requests from an unintended location – for example, allowing them to access internal services without being within the perimeter of the network....

One side sees everything only from its perspective and knows it’s right. The other side sees everything from its own perspective and wonders what the first side is talking about. It makes for unbearable watching. Mercifully I’m not talking about politics. Well, I’m trying not to because in politics too much has been too evident for too long. (At least that’s how it appears from my side.) No, today’s subject is remote work, the new hybrid life and how bosses and employees see it differently....

Teams now supports third-party CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) providers within the same window instead of a secondary one, Microsoft announced in its November Teams update. CART, or real-time captioning, is an accessibility feature to support people with hearing difficulties, but is also useful for everyone participating in an online video meeting. This should streamline the experience for people who use a CART captioner. It’s also available for Microsoft’s government (GCC) customers....

The Teams PWA is intended as the replacement for the Teams Linux client, which Microsoft finally launched in 2019 but last month encouraged Linux users to ditch for the upcoming Teams PWA, which can be installed via Chrome and Edge. The PWA option is only available for Linux and is offered as an install via a browser notification. Microsoft will retire the Teams Linux desktop client in December, according to Petri....

Microsoft has spent the last year aligning Teams to users’ needs during the pandemic, and is continuing its efforts to refine key features, such as breakout rooms. This feature arrived in December and lets meeting organizers split participants into smaller focus groups for brainstorming. Zoom has a similar feature, and both companies are battling it out on new features and management controls. While meeting organizers already had the ability to create and manage breakouts, Microsoft is adding a new control that allows them to delegate breakout room controls to specific presenters....