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Bugs in Firefox, Chrome, Edge Allow Remote System Hijacking
2021-01-08 06:00

Makers of the Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers are urging users to patch critical vulnerabilities that if exploited allow hackers to hijack systems running the software. The Mozilla Firefox vulnerability is separate from a bug reported in Google's browser engine Chromium, which is used in the Google Chrome browser and Microsoft's latest version of its Edge browser.

Iridium Edge Solar: A solar-powered remote asset tracking and management device
2021-01-07 01:30

Iridium announced commercial availability of the Iridium Edge Solar - a secure, maintenance-free, solar-powered remote asset tracking and management device. With over-the-air configuration capabilities, the Iridium Edge Solar is ideal for Vessel Monitoring Systems, fisheries management, tracking of freight shipping containers, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition applications, monitoring of oil and gas pipelines and heavy equipment telematics data reporting.

Network operator spend on multi-access edge computing to reach $8.3B by 2025
2020-12-24 05:00

Network operator spend on multi-access edge computing will grow from $2.7 billion in 2020, to $8.3 billion in 2025, as operators invest heavily in upgrading network capacities and infrastructure to support the increasing data generated by 5G networks, according to Juniper Research. The study also revealed that by 2025, the number of deployed multi-access edge computing nodes will reach 2 million globally in 2025, up from 230,000 in 2020.

Millions of Users Downloaded 28 Malicious Chrome and Edge Extensions
2020-12-18 04:50

Malware hidden in 28 third-party extensions for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge redirects users to ads or phishing sites, Avast warned this week. These extensions were designed to redirect users to other websites.

Innodisk InnoAGE provides full recovery to IoT edge devices
2020-12-18 01:45

The new-patented recovery technology of on-site recovery and 24/7 no-man monitoring feature come together by InnoOSR and following feature enhancement. Now Innodisk's exclusive InnoAGE series are able to meet full recovery scenarios.

Malicious Chrome, Edge extensions with 3M installs still in stores
2020-12-16 17:04

Malicious Chrome and Edge browser extensions with over 3 million installs, most of them still available on the Chrome Web Store and the Microsoft Edge Add-ons portal, are capable of stealing users' info and redirecting them to phishing sites. While Avast spotted the extensions in November 2020, they estimate that they could have been used for malicious purposes for years given that some Chrome Web Store reviewers have reported link hijacking starting with December 2018.

ADVA unveils set of edge and access network synchronization devices for next-gen apps
2020-12-16 00:45

ADVA launched a unique set of edge and access network synchronization devices with enhanced capabilities for next-generation applications such as 5G. The latest Oscilloquartz solutions address key challenges for a wide range of industries by bringing new levels of timing accuracy and resilience to edge networks. The OSA 5412 and 5422 offer precise phase, frequency and time-of-day synchronization and can be used for time-as-a-service applications.

Blaize AI Studio: An open and code-free software platform for faster ROI of AI edge deployments
2020-12-14 02:30

Blaize fully unveiled the Blaize AI Studio offering, the industry's first open and code-free software platform to span the complete edge AI operational workflow from idea to development, deployment and management. AI Studio dramatically reduces edge AI application deployment complexity, time, and cost by breaking the barriers within existing application development and machine learning operations infrastructure that hinder edge AI deployments.

Ad-injecting malware hijacks Chrome, Edge, Firefox
2020-12-11 14:15

When searching for things online, has a greater number of ads than usual been popping up at the top of your search results? If it has, and you're using Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Yandex Browser, or Mozilla Firefox, you might have fallen prey to the ad-injecting Adrozek malware. Modifying browser extensions by adding malicious scripts to them, which fetch additional scripts to injecting advertisements into search results.

Watch Out! Adrozek Malware Hijacking Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Yandex Browsers
2020-12-11 07:07

Microsoft on Thursday took the wraps off an ongoing campaign impacting popular web browsers that stealthily injects malware-infested ads into search results to earn money via affiliate advertising. The campaign - which impacts Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Yandex Browser, and Mozilla Firefox browsers on Windows - aims to insert additional, unauthorized ads on top of legitimate ads displayed on search engine results pages, leading users to click on these ads inadvertently.