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Web3 optimists point to decentralized technology's ability to challenge the power of big internet middlemen like Facebook, Google, and Twitter, while Web3 skeptics understandably struggle to connect the dots on how the current state of Web3 applications could ever truly rival the user experiences and network effects that Web2's most successful tech companies have built. When the friction of users' porting data from one service to another service approaches zero, companies will need to radically rethink how much value they extract from users without offering comparable incentives to that user.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Energy are jointly warning of attacks against internet-connected uninterruptible power supply devices by means of default usernames and passwords. "Organizations can mitigate attacks against their UPS devices, which provide emergency power in a variety of applications when normal power sources are lost, by removing management interfaces from the internet," the agencies said in a bulletin published Tuesday.
In a joint advisory with the Department of Energy, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned U.S. organizations today to secure Internet-connected UPS devices from ongoing attacks. UPS devices are regularly used as emergency power backup solutions in mission-critical environments, including data centers, industrial facilities, server rooms, and hospitals.
Russia's RSPP Commission for Communications and IT, the country's largest entrepreneurship union, has warned of imminent large-scale service Internet service outages due to the lack of available telecom equipment. With the western equipment suppliers exiting the market and not selling parts to Russian entities anymore, the first notable service outages may start as early as this summer.
Business email compromise/email account compromise scams still have the highest financial toll on victims, but investment fraud has also lead to massive losses last year, FBI's 2021 Internet Crime Report has revealed. The?2021 Internet Crime Report is based on information from 847,376 complaints about internet-enabled crimes the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has received in 2021 from individuals and entities across the globe.
Microsoft has reminded Windows customers today that they'll finally retire the Internet Explorer 11 web browser from some Windows 10 versions in June and replace it with the new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. After Internet Explorer is retired, Microsoft will still support legacy Internet Explorer-based websites and applications within Microsoft Edge via the built-in Internet Explorer mode feature.
China's internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, has taken unusually strong action against a social network that has long been considered a thorn in the side of the nation's elites. In the years since its 2005 founding, the site has become known for attracting users who express opinions that China's government may well find displeasing.
Lumen Technologies, the internet backbone provider formerly known as CenturyLink, has quit Russia. Other tech firms that have quit Russia have also cited opposition to the invasion as a prime reason for withdrawing services, sales, and other operations.
Get ready for security in the age of the Extended Internet of Things, says Claroty. Operational technology company Claroty makes a big claim about the future of OT and industrial control systems security: Based on data collected over the past few years, the distinction between OT/ICS and the rest of enterprise tech is beginning to fade in earnest, and new security headaches have appeared in their place.
Gemma Brett, a 27-year-old designer from west London, had only been working at Madbird for two weeks when she spotted something strange. The result looked nothing like the videos on Madbird's website of a sleek workspace buzzing with creative-types.