Collaborate Disseminate
In the case of consumer printers today, the device may work as expected with the help of drivers and firmware supplied by the manufacturer of that device. Sometimes, the device’s drivers and firmware may receive an upgrade to improve perfo… Continue reading Do I really need to keep updating my Epson XP-445 driver and firmware?
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on two service providers that supply online criminal networks with the necessary tools and infrastructure to fuel the pig butchering-as-a-service (PBaaS) economy.
At least since 2016, Chinese-speaking criminal … Continue reading Researchers Uncover Service Providers Fueling Industrial-Scale Pig Butchering Fraud
Firewalls, VPN access, and traffic rules need steady attention, often with limited budgets and staff. In that context, the open source pfSense Community Edition (CE) continues to show up in production environments, supported by a long-standing user com… Continue reading pfSense: Open-source firewall and routing platform
It used to be a rite of passage to be able to do the math necessary to design various bipolar transistor amplifier configurations. This doesn’t come up as often as …read more Continue reading Design of Common Emitter Amplifier
Security teams often spend time sorting through logs and alerts that point to activity happening outside corporate networks. Torrent traffic shows up in investigations tied to policy violations, insider risk, and criminal activity. A new research paper… Continue reading What security teams can learn from torrent metadata
An anonymous reader shared this report from It’s FOSS:
Jenny Guanni Qu, a researcher at [VC fund] Pebblebed, analyzed 125,183 bugs from 20 years of Linux kernel development history (on Git). The findings show that the average bug takes 2.1 years to fi… Continue reading How Long Does It Take to Fix Linux Kernel Bugs?
Cybersecurity debates around surveillance usually stay inside screens. A new academic study argues that this boundary no longer holds when communication laws extend into robots that speak, listen, and move among people. Researchers Neziha Akalin and Al… Continue reading EU’s Chat Control could put government monitoring inside robots
CISOs describe a shift in how they define success. New research from Absolute Security shows broad agreement that resilience outweighs security goals centered on prevention alone. Security leaders increasingly define their role around keeping the busin… Continue reading Downtime pushes resilience planning into security operations
Bloomberg reports on Amazon listings “automatically generated by an experimental AI tool” for stores that don’t sell on Amazon.
Bloomberg notes that the listings “didn’t always correspond to the correct product”, leaving the stores to handle the comp… Continue reading Amazon’s AI Tool Listed Products from Small Businesses Without Their Knowledge
Variable capacitors may be useful, but the air gap that provides their capacitance is their greatest weakness. Rather than deal with the poor dielectric properties of air, some high-end variable …read more Continue reading Taking a Look at Variable Vacuum Capacitors