Russian cyber criminal pleads guilty to running IPStorm botnet

Sergey Manikin, a joint Moldovan-Russian national who ran a botnet proxy network known as IPStorm that compromised computer systems all over the world, has pled guilty to three counts of violating US fraud laws against knowingly causing the transmission of a program to intentionally cause damage without authorisation to protected computers. IPStorm, which has now … Leer más

OnePlus Open 2 Release Date, Price & Specs Rumours

While parent company Oppo has a few foldables under its best, OnePlus waited until 2023 for its first attempt. The OnePlus Open is a compelling debut, combining premium hardware with some genuinely impressive software features. But there’s still room for improvement in a few key areas – including the price. Will any of these be … Leer más

FarrPoint expands broadband to US with Vernonburg

More than three years after Edinburgh-headquartered connectivity specialist FarrPoint first expanded overseas with the opening of a Canadian office and subsidiary, it has announced the opening of its second overseas office on the back of a new partnership with US consultancy firm Vernonburg Group. Established in 2006, FarrPoint is an independent connectivity and smart technology … Leer más

November Patch Tuesday heralds five new MS zero-days

Microsoft has issued fixes for a total of five zero-day vulnerabilities on the penultimate Patch Tuesday of 2023, three of them known to have already been exploited in the wild. With a total of just over 60 issues resolved this month, the November Patch Tuesday drop is by no means the largest of recent months … Leer más

US government reinforces ICBC hack link to Citrix Bleed

The possibility that this was the case was first raised by security researcher and commentator Kevin Beaumont via social media website Mastodon on Thursday 9 November. Beaumont had posted evidence drawn from Shodan revealing that ICBC was running a Citrix NetScaler appliance that was not patched against CVE-2023-4966. According to the Wall Street Journal, which … Leer más

Satellite firm neXat looks to enhance critical communications with SD-WAN

Targeting maritime, mobile, corporate and government use cases, satellite business connectivity provider neXat has launched a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service designed to streamline business networking and enable optimal application performance through the use of centrally controlled and managed wide area network (WAN) virtualisation. Active in 50 countries and already connected to more than … Leer más

Revs, profits fall but Vodafone claims H1 highlights improved trends

After chief executive Margherita Della Valle’s opinion that its 2023 financial year had “not been good enough” – prompting 11,000 job cuts in Europe and changes to regain competitiveness though simplifying the organisation and cutting out complexity – Vodafone Group has announced the first half of its 2024 fiscal year has made initial strategic progress … Leer más

DPU 101: What are DPUs, what do they do, and who supplies them?

Data processing units (DPUs) have emerged as an important deployment option for datacentres that run heavy data-centric workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics processing, and to speed storage input/output (I/O). DPUs are deployed in servers and are the latest in an evolution of offload hardware that take workload away from central processing units … Leer más