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CISA added a critical Asus Live Update supply chain compromise (CVE-2025-59374) to KEV linked to engineered installers distributed before 2021 The bug stems from the 2018-2019 incident where attackers implanted malicious code on Asus update servers Federal agencies must remediate by Jan. 7, and security firms urge private organizations to follow suit The US Cybersecurity […]

New Oracle A4 instances use AmpereOne M silicon in virtualized and bare metal configurations Virtual machines run up to 45 OCPUs, equivalent to 90 cores Bare metal instances provide 48 OCPUs, 96 cores, 768 GB of memory and 3.84 TB of storage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has introduced A4 Standard instances powered by Ampere Computing’s AmpereOne

Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle pops up at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people always play “today’s game” while others play “yesterday’s”. If you’re looking for the Thursday puzzle instead then click here: Quordle Hints and Answers for Thursday, December 18th (Game #1424). Quordle was one

RC4 has been exploited in high-profile attacks across corporate Windows networks Kerberoasting exploits weaknesses in Active Directory, allowing attackers to perform offline password cracking AES-SHA1 requires thousands of times more resources than RC4 for cracking Microsoft is moving to disable RC4, an encryption cipher embedded in Windows authentication for more than two decades. The decision

Nvidia acquires SchedMD to maintain Slurm as open source workload management software Slurm manages scheduling and resources for large clusters running parallel AI tasks Nvidia launched Nemotron 3 models, including Nano, Super and Ultra sizes for AI tasks Nvidia has announced a major expansion of its open source efforts, combining a software acquisition with new

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers into different categories. It can be difficult, so read on if you need Connections tips. What are you going to do when you’re done? Why, play some more puns of course. I also have daily Strands Hints and Answers

When 2026 rolls in and forces you to take stock of 2025, which sporting moments will you cherish the most? For sheer emotional depth, it’s hard to top Team Europe’s triumph over the mindless, white-hot hate of the pressure cooker that was the Ryder Cup, but the Lionesses’ Women’s Euro 2025 victory and the Red

StorageReview’s physical server calculated 314 trillion digits without a distributed cloud infrastructure The entire calculation ran continuously for 110 days without interruption Power consumption dropped dramatically compared to previous cluster-based Pi records A new benchmark in large-scale numerical computation has been set with the calculation of 314 trillion digits of pi on a single local

Kimwolf, an Android botnet with 1.8 million infected devices, rapidly evolves using ENS for resilience Its code and infrastructure overlap with AISURU, indicating that both belong to the same threat group AISURU remains one of the most destructive botnets, recently peaking at 29.7 Tbps in DDoS attacks Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a major malicious botnet

IDrive launches a Salesforce Backup for extra data protection with unlimited storage space The solution will cover critical elements of the Salesforce environment The plan costs $20/user/seat per year IDrive is our current top pick for the best cloud backup, and now there’s good news for anyone who uses Salesforce and wants to secure their