Cisco Patches Two Dangerous Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
The vulnerabilities, one of which was rated critical and one of which was rated highly severe, affect Cisco IOS XE software.
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Apple’s Face ID: Cheat Sheet (free PDF)
Apple made a big change when it released the iPhone X: It ditched Touch ID fingerprint security for a new face-based biometric sign-on tool called Face ID. The fingerprint scanner on most post-iPhone X Apple products is gone, and in its place is a new …
First Mini-PC With Solid-State Active Cooling System Launches
Chinese multinational Zotac has announced a mini-PC built around two solid-state active cooling chips called the AirJet Pro and AirJet Mini. They’re designed by a company called Frore Systems. New Atlas reports: The AirJet tech is described as a self-c…
Meta Quest 3 Is a Virtual Reality of Repair Insanity
While the tech in virtual reality headsets has “undoubtedly gotten better,” iFixit says “repair is getting left off of designers’ priority lists.” In a recent teardown video, the DIY repair site disassembled Meta’s Quest 3 headset to find that it’s not…
Inadequate IoT protection can be a costly mistake
97% of organizations are struggling to secure their IoT and connected products to some degree, according to Keyfactor. The research survey also found that 98% of organizations experienced certificate outages in the last 12 months, costing an average of…
MSP Best Practices: PC Maintenance Checklist
Regularly performing preventive PC maintenance provides managed services providers with an excellent opportunity to spot previously unidentified issues that could become bigger problems later. There’s a lot to remember when performing preventive mainte…
Lenovo PC Boss: 80% of Our Devices To Be Repairable By 2025
Paul Kunert writes via The Register: Talking on stage at the Canalys EMEA Forum 2023, Luca Rossi, senior vice resident at Lenovo and president of its Intelligent Devices Group, said the company has committed to a net zero emission policy by 2050, and a…
Cooler Master’s Sneaker Gaming PC Sells For $3,799
Cooler Master’s new Sneaker X mimics the exact look of an authentic sneaker but doesn’t sacrifice its visuals for performance, coming with a full-blown i7-13700K and an RTX 4070 Ti graphics card. The only drawback of the system is its high price, comin…
Censys Reveals Open Directories Share More Than 2,000 TB of Unprotected Data
These open directories could leak sensitive data, intellectual property or technical data and let an attacker compromise the entire system. Follow these security best practices for open directories.
Raspberry Pi 5 Announced
jizmonkey writes: The new version of Raspberry Pi is priced at $60 for the 4GB variant, and $80 for its 8GB sibling, and virtually every aspect of the platform has been upgraded. The new CPU is twice as fast and new features include simultaneous 5.0 Gb…