‘Uber For Armed Guards’ Rushes To Market

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Protector, an app that lets you book armed goons the same way you’d call for an Uber, is having a viral moment. The app started doing the rounds on social media after consultant Nikita Bier posted about…

February 19, 2025
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Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets

Here’s a supply-chain attack just waiting to happen. A group of researchers searched for, and then registered, abandoned Amazon S3 buckets for about $400. These buckets contained software libraries that are still used. Presumably the projects don’t realize that they have been abandoned, and still ping them for patches, updates, and etc.

The TL;DR is that this time, we ended up discovering ~150 Amazon S3 buckets that had previously been used across commercial and open source software products, governments, and infrastructure deployment/update pipelines—and then abandoned…

February 12, 2025
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How to Lock Apps on iPad

Set your iPad into kiosk mode and pass it around without worrying about someone opening other apps or accessing unwanted content through an accessibility feature called Guided Access.

February 6, 2025
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