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Those impatient to sell their soul needn’t waste a second more: the ultimate Faustian bargain for our modern age has arrived, courtesy of UK “green distributed compute network” Heata (opens in new tab). The offer (opens in new tab) (via Tom’s Hardware (opens in new tab)) is deceptively simple. You let Heata install a water-heating […]

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Born as an initiative of the EU SafeBorders project in 2004, today’s Safer Internet Day (opens in new tab) has become a landmark event in digital safety.  Its mission? Promoting ways to safely browse the web – like the use of security software like VPN services, for example – while raising awareness around the biggest […]

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Microsoft has revealed its initial conclusions on what it thinks caused a major recent outage that affected some of its most popular software offerings. The outage saw workers across Europe and Asia unable to log into Microsoft 365 services for several hours, with the likes of Microsoft Teams, Outlook, OneDrive for Business, Exchange Online and […]

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When the iPhone 15 handsets make an appearance, we’re once again expecting there to be several differences between the standard two phones and the two more expensive Pro models – and one of those differences could be in Wi-Fi support. A leaked document posted by tipster Unknownz21 (opens in new tab) on Twitter (via MacRumors […]

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EnGenius has made available its first series of multi-WAN gateways and the EnGenius ESG52 is currently the most affordable model, but don’t be fooled, this device is not your average entry-level gateway. No, EnGenius wanted to turn heads and made all the Ethernet ports 2.5GbE, including both LAN and WAN. And it makes sense considering […]

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The iPhone 14 Pro Max isn’t much better than the iPhone 14 Pro, with the main differences just being the size of the screen and capacity of the battery, but Apple could be looking to differentiate the top two entries in the expected iPhone 15 line later this year, based on new revelations from iOS […]

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The old ways are well and truly done with – and home working is now the norm for many of us. After the pandemic forced us to embrace turning our homes into workplaces, the focus now turns to making the places into a productive and efficient location to work. But security is always a concern […]

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A new Android app has been found tricking unsuspecting users (even those with clean devices) into visiting malicious versions of popular websites, where they might end up giving away their login credentials, or even worse – money.  The findings come courtesy of Kaspersky, which found a malicious Android app carrying the Wroba.o/Agent.eq (a.k.a Moqhao, XLoader) […]

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Your humble Wi-Fi router (opens in new tab) signal could be used to track your movements around a  room, bat style, a new report has claimed. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University recently published a report in which they detailed an experiment using ordinary off-the-shelf Wi-Fi routers to detect people’s locations, as well as their poses, […]

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A high-severity vulnerability has been discovered in a number of Cisco routers (opens in new tab) which allows threat actors to bypass authentication, gain root access to the endpoint, and even launch arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system in the second stage of the attack. The news comes courtesy of Cisco itself, which said […]

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