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Malwarebytes hacked and accessed internal company emails

by Antonio Delgado Ago 15 minutes … As the cybersecurity company itself has recognized in a statement, Malwarebytes has been attacked by nationally organized cybercriminals detected in other past attacks whose origin could be the Russian government, according to the US recently pointed out. The attackers gained access to internal Malwarebytes emails The attack affected… Read more

Mojang is retiring the old Minecraft Dungeons launcher

Minecraft Dungeons’ dedicated launcher on PC is being retired in favor of a new “Unified Launcher” that lets you launch Dungeons and Minecraft: Java Edition from the same place, reducing the number of places where you can play Minecraft on PC by one (via Windows Central). Minecraft Dungeons is the hack-and-slash loot collecting cousin of… Read more

Goodbye and good riddance to the 16:9 aspect ratio

One of the biggest trends coming out of this year’s CES wasn’t something people will necessarily notice at first glance unless they look closely. After enduring years of cramped, “widescreen” laptop displays, it looks like we’re finally starting to say goodbye to the 16:9 aspect ratio. Here’s the new Dell Latitude 9420.Image: Dell An aspect… Read more

Mailbox.org: Mailboxes and online services for Berlin teachers

The e-mail provider mailbox.org of the Berlin company Heinlein Support GmbH is to provide business e-mail inboxes for Berlin teachers in the future. Teachers can also use other services such as calendar, address book, task management, Office Suite, file storage and video conferencing. Departure from private e-mail accounts According to a decision by the Berlin… Read more

Xbox Game Pass: PC gamers will welcome Control in a few days

This week PC users subscribed to Xbox Game Pass will be able to redeem Control at no additional cost. Microsoft announces it, confirming the imminent debut of the Remedy title in the Windows catalog 10: that’s when you can install it. by Pasquale Fusco published 19 January 2021 , at 16: 21 in the Videogames… Read more

Microsoft joins General Motors' Robotaxi company

Microsoft wants to be the next technology company to get involved in the self-driving car business. The Windows giant is participating in a two billion dollar financing round of the robotaxi company Cruise of the auto company General Motors, as the company announced on Tuesday. Cruise was given a total of 30 Billion dollars. The… Read more

Homeschooling: Call for digital sovereignty through free software

The Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) is concerned that many schools are using “proprietary software solutions that are questionable under data protection law” against the background of the corona crisis and the current level of suffering in homeschooling. Above all, programs that transfer data from those affected to third countries such as the USA are questionable… Read more

Approvals: MS Teams now also wants to organize business processes

Microsoft Teams users can now use the Approvals to start approval workflows via chat or a channel conversation. Alternatively, approvals can be set up directly via the app by simply entering the name of the approval request. According to Microsoft, anyone who receives a request via a chat or channel is shown an approval card…. Read more

Windows 10 bug: path specification causes blue screen

After a security hole recently endangered the entire NTFS file system in Windows, a bug is now causing further trouble. The effects of this are not quite as dramatic, but data can also be lost here. Said bug was also discovered by security researcher Jonas Lykkegard, who also tracked down the mentioned vulnerability in the… Read more

Astian Translate: Open source translations in nine languages

With Translate, Astian publishes a new translation service that appears as free software. At the start the program can handle nine languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic and Chinese. The automatic recognition of the input is still experimental. Users can try the service on the Astian operated libretranslate.com, but the software also… Read more

Microsoft announces Cloud for Retail, its second vertical cloud

Microsoft Cloud for Retail is the second of the company’s “vertical clouds” that provide companies with specific tools for the sector in which they operate: in this case the focus is on retail trade by Riccardo Robecchi published on 19 January 2021 , at 08: 21 in the Cloud channel Microsoft Microsoft 365 Azure One… Read more

Statistics of the week: The cloud knows no boundaries

(Picture: shutterstock / 3dmask ) In our weekly column we present numbers, curves and diagrams from technology and science. The cloud market has no corona crisis, like data from Statista Technology Market Outlook show. As a result, sales with software, infrastructure and platform-as-a-service offerings fell last year by 25, 5 Percent grown. And it should… Read more

Competition for Intel and AMD? Samsung is to develop Exynos SoCs for PCs

The large CPU manufacturers Intel and AMD are currently dividing the desktop market between themselves. This could soon come to an end, however, as Samsung apparently has an SoC in the works as an additional player for use in Windows devices. At least that’s what the leaker @TheGalox_ claims in a tweet, according to which… Read more

An NTFS format vulnerability in Windows can corrupt your hard drive

by Jordi Bercial 1 hour ago … As seen in different parts of the infosec community, originating from the Twitter account of Jonas L , we can see as a vulnerability in the NTFS file system may allow an attacker without privilege on the system to corrupt the MFT (Master File Table) of the file… Read more

Bug in Windows 10: Path specification can cause blue screen

Security researcher Jonas Lykkegard has published details of a bug that affects several versions of Windows 10 (including the current 20 H2) and possibly server – Operating system versions concerned. The error ensures that calling up a certain file path, for example in the address bar of a web browser, causes a blue screen. Administrator… Read more