Month: September 2024

Sep 27, 2024Ravie LakshmananLinux / Vulnerability A new set of security vulnerabilities has been disclosed in the OpenPrinting Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) on Linux systems that could permit remote command execution under certain conditions. “A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting
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The Motorola Razr series has been one of the most recognisable phones in human history. It also sold well and made much money for the now Lenovo-owned Motorola. The flip phones took the foldable flip route in late 2020 and are currently in their 5th generation. We got two phones this year, the Razr 50
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Meta Quest 3S mixed reality headset was launched as an affordable option at the Connect event on Wednesday. It joins the Quest 3 in the company’s latest family of immersive experience devices and boasts features such as 4K Infinite+ displays, full-colour passthrough capabilities, and Meta Horizon OS rebuilt for spatial computing. It also gets capabilities
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Sony has revealed the slate of PlayStation Plus monthly games for October. Next month’s free PS Plus titles include wrestling sim WWE 2K24, survival-horror shooter Dead Space, and visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! The three games will be playable for all PS Plus subscribers across Essential, Extra and Deluxe/Premium tiers starting October 1.
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Sep 28, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Android app on the Google Play Store that enabled the threat actors behind it to steal approximately $70,000 in cryptocurrency from victims over a period of nearly five months. The dodgy app, identified by Check Point, masqueraded as the legitimate WalletConnect open-source
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A federal judge narrowed a lawsuit accusing Apple of violating the privacy of iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch users by collecting their personal data through proprietary apps such as the App Store, Apple Music and Apple TV. U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California, dismissed nearly all claims based on the “Allow Apps
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The lead European Union privacy regulator fined social media giant Meta 91 million euros ($101.5 million) on Friday for inadvertently storing some users’ passwords without protection or encryption. The inquiry was opened five years ago after Meta notified Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) that it had stored some passwords in ‘plaintext’. Meta publicly acknowledged the
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