July 2022 - Page 10 of 14

New Google Chrome feature reduces CPU use to extend battery life

Google is testing a new ‘Quick Intensive Throttling’ feature that reduces CPU time by 10%, extending the battery life for laptops and mobile devices. […]

10 Jul

Maastricht University wound up earning money from its ransom payment

Maastricht University (UM), a Dutch university with more than 22,000 students, said last week that it has recovered the ransom paid after a ransomware attack that hit its network in December 2019. […]

09 Jul

PyPI mandates 2FA for critical projects, developer pushes back

On Friday, the Python Package Index (PyPI), repository of open source Python projects announced plans to rollout two factor authentication for maintainers of “critical” projects. Although many praised the move, the developer of a popular Python project decided to delete his code from PyPI in retaliation. […]

09 Jul

Mangatoon data breach exposes data from 23 million accounts

Manga comic reading app Mangatoon has suffered a data breach that exposed the account information of 23 million users after a hacker stole it from an Elasticsearch database. […]

09 Jul

Microsoft Outlook email searches are broken again in Windows 11

Microsoft is investigating an issue causing Outlook search not to display recent emails in desktop apps running on Windows 11 systems. […]

08 Jul

The Week in Ransomware – July 8th 2022 – One down, many to go

While we continue to see new ransomware operations launch, we also received some good news this week, with another ransomware shutting down. […]

08 Jul

New 0mega ransomware targets businesses in double-extortion attacks

A new ransomware operation named ‘0mega’ targets organizations worldwide in double-extortion attacks and demands millions of dollars in ransoms. […]

08 Jul

CEO charged with sale of counterfeit Cisco devices to govt, health orgs

Onur Aksoy, the CEO of a group of dozens of companies, was indicted for allegedly selling more than $1 billion worth of counterfeit Cisco network equipment to customers worldwide, including health, military, and government organizations. […]

08 Jul

Microsoft fixes bug crashing Office apps when opening cloud documents

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that was causing Office applications like Word and Excel to crash when working with cloud documents. […]

08 Jul

Massive Rogers outage disrupts mobile service, payments in Canada

A massive Rogers outage is causing widespread disruption in Canada due to lack of mobile service, inability to process payment card transactions, and impacting 911 emergency services. […]

Month: July 2022

New Google Chrome feature reduces CPU use to extend battery life

Maastricht University wound up earning money from its ransom payment

PyPI mandates 2FA for critical projects, developer pushes back

Mangatoon data breach exposes data from 23 million accounts

Microsoft Outlook email searches are broken again in Windows 11

The Week in Ransomware – July 8th 2022 – One down, many to go

New 0mega ransomware targets businesses in double-extortion attacks

CEO charged with sale of counterfeit Cisco devices to govt, health orgs

Microsoft fixes bug crashing Office apps when opening cloud documents

Massive Rogers outage disrupts mobile service, payments in Canada