Monthly Archives: April 2024

Cyber Security Today, April 24, 2024 – Good news/bad news in Mandiant report, UnitedHealth admits paying a ransomware gang, and more

Good news/bad news in Mandiant report, UnitedHealth admits paying a ransomware gang, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday April 24th, 2024. I’m Howard Solomon.  Security teams may be getting better at finding hackers lurking in their IT systems. That’s according to Mandiant’s latest annual M-Trends report. The mean time an attacker […]

iMyFone Umate Pro Review – Is It a Reliable iPhone Data Eraser?

This in-depth iMyFone Umate Pro review will help you make the right buying decision if you’re looking for the best iPhone data eraser. This tool can protect your privacy by making deleted files unrecoverable on various iOS devices. It’s a one-stop-shop to delete all types of iOS files with different layers of data overwriting. Ultimately, […]

Windows 11 app recommendations AKA the ads in the Start Menu are coming to the general public

Microsoft has begun distributing an update (KB5036980) for Windows 11 that has a new (unwanted?) feature to the Start menu. The “Recommended” section will now display suggestions for apps available in the Microsoft Store. Or, as everyone calls them, the ads.  According to Microsoft’s update notes, these recommendations are intended to help users discover new applications.  Here […]

Major Security Flaws Expose Keystrokes of Over 1 Billion Chinese Keyboard App Users

Security vulnerabilities uncovered in cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps could be exploited to reveal users’ keystrokes to nefarious actors. The findings come from the Citizen Lab, which discovered weaknesses in eight of nine apps from vendors like Baidu, Honor, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi. The only vendor whose keyboard app did not have any security

ContextMinds Review: Can AI Give You Good Content Ideas?

An unbiased ContextMinds review will help you decide about this innovative platform. AI is used nowadays for various purposes. SEO and content are probably under the most spotlight for the moment. I’ll do my best to walk you through ContextMinds features and showcase how to use them. Let’s dive deep and see what’s under the […]

Huawei wants to do what Microsoft couldn’t: challenge iOS and Android with HarmonyOS

Huawei is planning to expand its HarmonyOS worldwide. HarmonyOS is Huawei’s own phone platform, which was released in 2019 after US sanctions blocked Huawei from having further access to Google’s Android software. Coincidently, it was the same year Microsoft stopped their Windows phone. Huawei has set its sights on international expansion and intends to spend […]

eScan Antivirus Update Mechanism Exploited to Spread Backdoors and Miners

A new malware campaign has been exploiting the updating mechanism of the eScan antivirus software to distribute backdoors and cryptocurrency miners like XMRig through a long-standing threat codenamed GuptiMiner targeting large corporate networks. Cybersecurity firm Avast said the activity is the work of a threat actor with possible connections to a North Korean hacking group dubbed 

OpenAI props Enterprise offerings with Private Link (security) and Projects (control)

Earlier this month, we discussed how OpenAI has some good numbers when it comes to Enterprise customers. Well, OpenAI is not looking to disappoint them as it has announced new updates to improve its services for enterprise customers. These features include better security, administrative control, and cost management for organizations building and deploying AI solutions. […]

Introducing Phi-3: Redefining what’s possible with SLMs

We are excited to introduce Phi-3, a family of open AI models developed by Microsoft. Phi-3 models are the most capable and cost-effective small language models (SLMs) available, outperforming models of the same size and next size up across a variety of language, reasoning, coding, and math benchmarks. This release expands the selection of high-quality […]