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Adobe said in a Tuesday statement that the serious weaknesses expose both Windows and MacOS users to code execution attacks. The changes, which are available for Photoshop 2020 and Photoshop 2021, are sent using the software’s automated updating system. The vulnerabilities were reported by Adobe as memory corruption concerns with CVSS scores of 7.8. Adobe also issued warnings with updates for severe security flaws in Adobe Media Encoder (code execution, critical), as well as multiple major security flaws in Adobe Bridge and Adobe Captivate....

Samsung seems somewhat unusual with gigantic tablets (even if one is not shared by the buying public). The Galaxy View, a huge 18.4-inch Android slate that weighed almost six pounds, was launched in 2015. Undeterred by the shift from tablets to smartphones for content use, the company has a new large tablet with a slightly smaller screen but far larger battery. While Samsung sold the original Galaxy View via its normal channels, the Galaxy View 2 is currently available via AT&T, which offers a series of convincing reasons-namely its existing DirecTV service and the video streaming service, which it plans to launch later in the year....

OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. The android-integrated OCR technology can instantly convert the scanned image of the text pages to the word file without the need for typing. There are a bunch of best android OCR scanner applications available in the Play Store that can be used to convert your bills, documents, images, hard copy books, etc. The best thing about these OCR applications is to convert all of your files to PDF or JPG format....

What is the purpose of a video converter? You can convert a video from one format to another with video conversion software. Quad was the first commercially successful video format, debuting in 1956. Various other video formats were introduced throughout the next few decades. You may need to convert raw video files from one format to another whether you work in a professional movie studio or edit home videos. On the internet, there are dozens of converting tools....

Brazilian users have been attacked for almost a year with a new type of router, which has been seen worldwide. The attacks are nearly invisible for end users and can lead to dire financial losses for hacked users. They can be catastrophic. What is happening to routers in Brazil at the moment should be a warning to users and ISPs around the world who should take care to secure devices before they are also affected by the attacks in South America....

The National Energy Technology Laboratory’s quarterly report last spring disclosed that a cyber incident caused’ interruptions to electrical systems activities’ on an unidentified utility in the West of the United States. The event on 5 March affected California, Utah and Wyoming, but there was no power failure. At the moment of disturbance, E&E News was informed by energy and environment experts that a do – it-yourself attack exploited a recognized vulnerability but that no other information was made accessible....

“Over the last 18 months, the previous paradigm for what a network looks like has fundamentally changed,” says Yonatan Striem-Amit, CTO and co-founder of Cybereason. He told that IT professionals now have to secure a “insanely complicated and heterogeneous environment.” “Today, an analyst must understand endpoint threats, network threats, IoT threats, e-mail, SaaS, cloud, and its services and architecture in order to be effective.” Keeping track of all of them using diverse tools becomes a huge challenge....

By knowing what encryption is, how it works, and the crucial role it plays in information security, business leaders and average consumers alike can make better decisions for their data safety. Here’s what you need to know. What is Encryption? Think of encryption as a lock and your keys are your passwords. This is the system that operates behind the scenes of many of our day-to-day processes, our mobile banking, and our digital storage....

We must accept that there is no one-size-fits-all answer to thwart all cyber-threats. Using a number of security measures, on the other hand, provides a perception of comprehensive protection against a wide range of current and emerging dangers. DiD also aids in the incorporation of redundancy in the event that one of the mechanisms fails. Simply put, a good DiD method improves the security of computers and networks against a variety of attack vectors....

In a data-driven economy, major and small businesses are managing change at breakneck speed. To drive corporate growth, data must be delivered simply, rapidly, and cost-effectively, and hybrid cloud has emerged as the most efficient solution to address evolving business needs. Every IT department is attempting to figure out how to modernize with hybrid cloud, and all-flash storage solutions are essential on-premises for corporate application performance. Due to the high expense of all-flash solutions, small businesses have continued to use hard disc storage systems....

Just two weeks later, the software managers released a notice for a possibly troublesome bug recognized as CVE-2019-16928 which was awarded the same critical score. The following is defined as affecting all versions of Exim, from 4.92 to 4.92.2, including: A string vformat heap-based buffer overflow (string.c). The renowned exploit utilizes an exceptional lengthy EHLO string to crash the Exim process that receives the email. The “presently recognized feat” relates to a notion evidence produced by QAX A-Team that reported the defect....

The latest FaceApp hype attracted swindlers who want to make rapid profit. For both Android and the iOS, the FaceApp application offers various face-modification filters. During the free application, certain features, marked as “PRO,” are paid for. A huge wave of media attention has been generated by recent concerns about FaceApp privacy issues. To different ends, scammers tried, with a fake “Pro”–but free–application version as a lure to exploit this wave of interest....

The 17-year-old boy was arrested earlier Friday in Tampa where he will be charged by the Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office. According to a press release he faces 30 criminal charges. The tweets offered to send out $2,000 to an anonymous Bitcoin address for every $1,000 sent. Previously Twitter said hackers used the phone to fool the employees of the social media company into giving them access. It said it was targeting “a limited number of employees via a spear-phishing attack by phone....

The Bitdefender team worked with the Romanian Police and Europol for the third time in the last calendar year to release a free decrypter that can help GandCrab Ransomware victims recover files that have been locked by that malware. This latest version of the GandCrab Decryption Tool from Bitdefender has been updated to decode files locked in versions of GandCrab from 5.0.4 to 5.1. These releases were activated and people’s files were locked between November 2018 and today....

The security flaw, dubbed CVE-2022-1096 and rated as high-severity, is described as a Type Confusion fault in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. The bug was reported by an anonymous researcher, according to Google, and the business has yet to calculate the bug bounty amount for this issue. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-1096 has been discovered in the wild,” the company says in its alert, without going into detail about the vulnerability or the exploitation it discovered....

The hacks are part of a problem on YouTube, where hackers hijack famous accounts to broadcast a classic “crypto giveaway” — where victims are fooled into giving the scammer a small amount of cryptocurrency to double their earnings yet never get any money back. These scams were once prevalent on Twitter, but in recent months have now migrated to YouTube as Twitter started cracking down on users posing as authenticated accounts....

Luckily, a new solution has been increasingly deployed: biometrics. Until relatively recently, this technology was the stuff of Bond movies, where access to secret establishments was allowed or denied through fingerprint scans or other personal identification. But these days, most smartphones use this as a security feature, as do many other apps where confidentiality is a priority. However, flaws in the currently-used systems are coming to light – and have been for some time now....

This electronic money is stored in computer files or e-wallets, and the money is transferred using incredible blockchain technology. If you make it a choice and find it satisfying to use cryptocurrency, you will be able to transfer and track your transactions chronologically. A large number of tech-savvy and business-minded people are these days using digital currencies to tackle real-life economic and financial challenges. Interestingly, some nations are even proposing and supporting the idea of replacing traditional currencies with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin....

It’s a c-suite level position in companies, which means it’s one of the most important and prominent officers in the business, and it usually reports directly to the CEO. As a result, comprehensive experience, understanding, expertise, and hands-on skills in as many areas of information security as possible are needed. Five steps to becoming a chief information security officer (ciso certification path) Self-evaluation: Becoming a chief information security officer is not for everybody....

The majority of us are familiar with and enjoy Instagram. Everyone’s highlight reel is on the app, but the pressure to fit in has made many of us superficial. Instagram has evolved into an implicit competition of who has the most aesthetically beautiful feed or the most followers, rather than being a platform where we can simply share honest experiences from our life. This means that most people are extremely picky about which photographs are Insta-worthy and which moments make it onto their carefully managed feeds....