Monthly Archives: May 2024

Is Your Computer Part of ‘The Largest Botnet Ever?’

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) today said they arrested the alleged operator of 911 S5, a ten-year-old online anonymity service that was powered by what the director of the FBI called “likely the world’s largest botnet ever.” The arrest coincided with the seizure of the 911 S5 website and supporting infrastructure, which the government […]

Microsoft announces DirectSR preview, a new API to standardize upscaling in Windows

Early this year, Microsoft first announced DirectSR to make it easier for game developers to scale super resolution support across Windows devices. Today, Microsoft announced the public preview of DirectSR. Right now, all major GPU vendors have their own super resolution technologies. So, game developers are forced to implement support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, […]

Microsoft releases a solution regarding third-party NAS using SMB for Windows 11 24H2

Windows 11 24H2 Release Preview introduces new security measures that may cause issues when mapping drives to third-party network-attached storage (NAS) devices. These measures include mandatory SMB signing and disabled guest fallback in Windows 11 Pro. While these changes enhance security, they can disrupt connections with NAS devices that don’t support SMB signing or rely […]

Cybercriminals Abuse StackOverflow to Promote Malicious Python Package

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new malicious Python package that has been discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository to facilitate cryptocurrency theft as part of a broader campaign. The package in question is pytoileur, which has been downloaded 316 times as of writing. Interestingly, the package author, who goes by the name […]

Microsoft is unifying its enterprise maps offerings under Azure Maps

Right now, Microsoft has two enterprise maps offerings: Bing Maps for Enterprise and Azure Maps. Microsoft recently announced that it is unifying its enterprise maps offerings under Azure Maps. This unification will allow customers to take advantage of other Azure cloud services along with the improved Azure Maps. On top of the features already available on […]