Will 2022 be the year the year citizen developers finally take the reigns leading application development across their respective lines of business? It looks likely, thanks to emerging low-code, no-code and serverless solutions. And, importantly, there will also be another “citizen” in the mix — professional developers themselves, rapidly accelerating their abilities to plan, assemble […]

A ‘massive’ cyberattack has taken down several government websites in Ukraine, including the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Education and Science. A statement by Ukranian police says cyber attackers left “provocative messages” on the main pages of government websites, which have been taken offline – but no personal data has been altered or […]

The latest Windows 11 preview release brings some significant visual changes, and there’s also a new look for the Your Phone app.  Windows 11, released to mainstream users on October 5, delivered a major but incomplete user interface (UI) overhaul to Windows with new widgets, Start menu designs and more.  Microsoft has now released Windows […]

Iran-backed hacking group Phosphorous or APT35 is using the Log4j vulnerability to distribute a new modular PowerShell toolkit, according to security firm Check Point.  APT35 is one of several state-backed hacking groups known to have been developing tools to exploit public-facing Java applications that use vulnerable versions of the Log4j error-logging component. Microsoft, which tracks […]

A high-impact vulnerability allowing remote code execution to take place has impacted millions of end-user router devices.  On Tuesday, SentinelOne published an analysis of the bug, tracked as CVE-2021-45388 and deemed critical by the research team.  The vulnerability impacts the KCodes NetUSB kernel module. KCodes solutions are licensed by numerous hardware vendors to provide USB […]

Pixabay Among the deluge of robotics predictions you’re bound to encounter this year, there’s one you should pay particular attention to: The way robots “see” is fundamentally changing, and that’s going to have a huge impact on the utility, cost, and proliferation of robotic systems. Of course, it’s a bit of a mischaracterization to talk […]

The fireworks of January 1 herald the start of a new year, but for bargain hunters like myself, they denote the beginning of clearance sales and tech savings galore. Lenovo, for example, is currently slashing up to 70% off its catalog of ThinkPad laptops, monitors, and PC peripherals. One deal in particular (and should very […]

No, not everyone enjoys being self-regarding. By mariakray — Shutterstock One of modern life’s great lessons is that not everyone uses technology in the same way. more Technically Incorrect You might think everyone uses the function keys on a laptop keyboard, but they really don’t. You might think everyone opens their phone camera in the […]

A new technique that fakes iPhone shutdowns to perform surveillance has been published by researchers.  Dubbed “NoReboot,” ZecOps’ proof-of-concept (PoC) attack is described as a persistence method that can circumvent the normal practice of restarting a device to clear malicious activity from memory.  Making its debut with an analysis and a public GitHub repository this […]

Brave, the Chromium-based and privacy-focused browser, now has 50 million monthly active users.  That total means user numbers have more than doubled from the 24 million it had at the end of 2020.  To put Brave’s milestone in perspective, Google has billions of active users on Chrome, Android, iOS and Windows. Nonetheless, Brave has grown […]