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Facebook is suing Portuguese developers for stolen user data

Facebook has filed a lawsuit in Portugal against two developers based there who are said to have stolen user data from Facebook users. This violates Portuguese data protection regulations and Facebook’s usage guidelines. The developers are said to have used self-programmed browser extensions offered by the company “Oink and Stuff”. These extensions are intended to… Read more

Patchday: Adobe is almost always targeting critical security vulnerabilities

On the first patch day of this year, Adobe closed critical security gaps in Animate, Bridge Campaign Classic, Illustrator, InCopy and Photoshop. A gap with “Important” classification in Captivate has also been eliminated. Product updates are available for the Windows, macOS and Linux platforms alike. Adobe recommends that users import them promptly in view of… Read more

Patchday: malicious code attacks on Microsoft Defender

On the first patch day of this year, Microsoft published 64 security patches for ASP .NET, Azure, ChakraCore, Edge, Microsoft Defender, Office , Visual Studio and Windows released. Ten gaps are classified as ” critical “. The remaining patches are marked as ” important “. Patch now! A critical malicious code vulnerability (CVE – 2021… Read more

iOS apps on ARM Macs: Apple probably wants to block sideloading

Apple seems to be sideloading iOS apps on ARM Macs a thorn in the side: Code in the latest pre-release version of macOS Big Sur 11. 2 indicates that Apple wants to block a popular workaround that has so far made it possible to install iPhone and iPad apps on Macs whose developers have objected… Read more

CES: Microsoft: Together against “massive attacks” like SolarWinds

Microsoft President Brad Smith has called on the tech industry to work together to secure critical infrastructures against cyber attacks. The recent Solar Winds attacks against Microsoft and numerous other companies are “an indiscriminate, massive attack on the global supply chain that we must protect together,” said Smith in his recorded keynote at the digital… Read more

TechStage | Fiido M1 Pro in the test: The foldable E-Fatbike for winter, forest and weather

Start Processing Driving Battery Price Conclusion Comments by Matthias // 13. 01. 2021 16: 37 Clock The Fiido M1 Pro is a full-suspension folding e-bike from China with fat bike tires and strong 450 – Watt motor for only 897 Euro. In the test, we cruise perfectly through winter, forest and weather. In May 2020… Read more

Start-up with CPU architect veterans: Qualcomm wants to buy Nuvia

Founded less than a year ago and already valued at a ten-digit figure: Mobile processor manufacturer Qualcomm wants to take over the start-up Nuvia. Both companies have agreed on a purchase price of 1.4 billion US dollars – now only the authorities have to approve the takeover. Reason for the high price, Nuvias are engineers,… Read more

Distributed database: Cockroach Labs secures funding for further growth

Cockroach Labs, provider of the distributed, cloud-native SQL database CockroachDB, was able to double both the number of its customers and sales in the past year, as the company announced in a blog post without disclosing any specific financial data. In order to be able to continue financing the growth, however, Cockroach Labs secured itself… Read more

TechStage | Ratgber gaming chairs: How do you gamble at 50 euros?

Beginning Basics From 50 Euro Alternatives Conclusion Comments from Lenz // 13. 00. 2021 14: 39 Clock Anyone looking for a gaming chair will find models from 50 Euro. TechStage shows what they can do and what alternatives there are. Gaming chairs are like office chairs – only more colorful and gaudy. But they have… Read more

App development: Google's Cloud Functions support the Ruby programming language

Google’s Cloud Functions, a platform for Function as a Service (FaaS), supports the Ruby programming language. The newly released Functions framework for Ruby should enable developers to write idiomatic Ruby functions for the cloud. According to the publisher, it can be used to create business-critical apps and integration layers. Cloud Functions for Ruby is in… Read more

Suggestion for language change: Go should get generics

The programming language Go, originally developed for Google, is one of the few statically typed languages in recent years that does not have support for generic data types. The implementation of parameterized types has been discussed for years – actually since the release of Go on 10. November 2009. Now a proposal has been submitted… Read more

Solar winds: Burglars sell Windows source code and FireEye attack tools

Criminals broke into companies such as FireEye, Microsoft and many US authorities via a back door in the SolarWinds Orion network management software. Now they are supposedly selling their loot on a website called SolarLeaks: 600. 000 US dollars for Windows source code, 500. 000 for source code of Cisco products; and the handcrafted attack… Read more

Patchday: SAP updates close remote gateways in the business warehouse

On January patch day, SAP eliminated two critical security gaps in its business intelligence software Business Warehouse (BW) ; one of them also concerns SAP BW / 4HANA . A remote attacker with low access rights could misuse the loopholes to completely compromise the system, which is why admins should react promptly. Updates are also… Read more

Security update: Critical malware vulnerability in Thunderbird

Mozilla has secured its mail client. Users should update quickly. (Image: Tatiana Popova / Shutterstock.com) The Thunderbird email client is vulnerable. Under certain circumstances, attackers should be able to execute malicious code on computers after successful attacks. An attacker would have to modify a COOKIE-ECHO chunk in an SCTP packet for this. According to a… Read more

Realme Link source code reveals Realme Watch 2 and Watch 2 Pro coming soon

Realme introduced its first smartwatch dubbed Realme Watch in May, and it appears the company is on the verge of delivering the Watch 2 and Watch 2 Pro which were mentioned in the source code of Realme Link – an app that serves as the central hub for Realme’s AIoT products. The code doesn’t divulge… Read more