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Published: 07 October 2020

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Inventables has just announced a substantial Pro upgrade to its popular X-Carve line of CNC machines. Unlike 3D printing, which adds material to create a final object, CNC machines carve...

Read more: X-Carve Pro: A big step up for the Inventables X-Carve desktop CNC

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Published: 07 October 2020

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Workplace collaboration platform Slack is holding a virtual version of its annual Frontiers conference this week and with it announced a bevy of new product features and tools within the Slack platform. Key updates include direct messaging on...

Read more: Slack brings direct messaging to Slack Connect

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Published: 07 October 2020

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The US Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning over a huge surge in activity by the gang behind the Emotet trojan. 

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Historically, the Emotet spam botnet has been linked

Read more: US warns: Big surge in Emotet malware campaigns makes it one of today's top threats

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Published: 07 October 2020

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Fresh off the back of the news that it is to purchase computer chip company Arm^[1], also known as the "crown jewel" of UK tech, for $40 billion, Nvidia has announced that it is building...

Read more: UK's fastest supercomputer will let scientists ask 'the right questions'

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Published: 07 October 2020

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A new fileless attack technique that abuses the Microsoft Windows Error Reporting (WER) service is the work of a hacking group that is yet to be identified. 

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According to Malwarebytes security researchers Hossein Jazi and Jérôme Segura,

Read more: Hackers exploit Windows Error Reporting service in new fileless attack

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Published: 07 October 2020

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A bug bounty researcher has been awarded $3000 for disclosing a security issue in GitLab leading to the exposure of private groups. 

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The report was made public^[1] on the HackerOne bug bounty platform

Read more: GitLab patches Elasticsearch private group data leak bug

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Published: 07 October 2020

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ZeroFOX has acquired LookingGlass Cyber Solutions' Cyveillance threat intelligence business. 

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Announced on Tuesday^[1], the deal is designed to merge the ZeroFOX Digital Risk Protection Platform and Cyveillance's threat intelligence data trove and dark web

Read more: ZeroFOX acquires Cyveillance threat intelligence business from LookingGlass

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Australia's federal budget papers^[1], which dropped on Tuesday night, make it clear just how little attention the government is paying to...

Read more: Budget 2020: Australia's cyber dollars are full of stale hot air

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Published: 07 October 2020

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While most applications, online services and even automobiles now run on hundreds of thousands, or even millions of lines of code behind the scenes, many applications and services can be written with relatively few lines, thanks to abstractions...

Read more: Low and no-code are wonderful, but a 'big code' world lurks underneath