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Mozilla has launched an experiment where they change the Firefox browser user agent to a three-digit "Firefox/100.0" version to see if it will break websites. The current user agent for Mozilla Firefox version 90 is listed below.
South Korea has this week announced two new weapons: grenade-launching drones for its military, and anti-ransomware software for businesses. The nation's Defense Acquisition Program Administration has revealed that in 2022 South Korea will test grenade-launching drones that can be remotely controlled over a range of two kilometres, carrying gunpowder-filled 40mm shells.
Google Play Protect, the Android built-in malware defense system, has failed the real-world tests of antivirus testing lab AV-TEST after detecting just over two thirds out of more than 20,000 malicious apps it was pitted against. While always running and scanning every app installed and launched on the device, "The endurance test revealed that this service does not provide particularly good security: every other security app offers better protection than Google Play Protect."
Rather, it's about why victims still pay for a key needed to decrypt their systems even when they have the means to restore everything from backups on their own. Experts say the biggest reason ransomware targets and/or their insurance providers still pay when they already have reliable backups is that nobody at the victim organization bothered to test in advance how long this data restoration process might take.
Coursera states, in its Vulnerability Disclosure Program, that access control issues are a security concern. API leaks are not uncommon and have been main contributors to major security issues.
TrustInSoft announced an Application Security Test specifically designed to mathematically guarantee bug-free code in embedded Internet of Things devices. This AST for IoT is based on TrustInSoft's Analyzer to provide the equivalent of static and dynamic code analysis of C/C++ source code using Formal Methods testing to guarantee the absence of undefined source code behaviors.
The mitigations applied to exorcise Spectre, the family of data-leaking processor vulnerabilities, from computers hinders performance enough that disabling protection for the sake of speed may be preferable for some. "Before Spectre mitigations, those system calls hardly slowed down userspace execution at all."
Leveraging their close cooperation on 5G NR implementation in their wireless test solutions, the T&M specialists Rohde & Schwarz and VIAVI Solutions have successfully accomplished high-speed data throughput end-to-end test of 5G NR eMBB. By achieving 7.5 Gbps, the two companies herald the new age of high data throughput, showing that it is possible to validate very high data rate applications over a 5G network without performance compromises. The setup is based on the R&S CMX500 wideband radio communication tester by Rohde & Schwarz and the TM500 network tester for user equipment emulation by VIAVI. In the demo, the instruments simulate a standalone 5G cellular network with 8x downlink carrier aggregation in NR dual connectivity using 1xCC in FR1 and 7xCC in FR2 with a modulation scheme of 256QAM on all carriers.
Social media was abuzz tonight after thousands of HBO Max subscribers received strange emails titled "Integration Test Email #1," which was ultimately blamed on a HBO Max intern. As a test email going out to all HBO Max subscribers wasn't bad enough, HBO Max's Twitter account blamed an intern for the mistakenly sent email blast.
Social media was abuzz tonight after thousands of HBO Max subscribers received strange emails titled "Integration Test Email #1," which was ultimately blamed on a HBO Max intern. As a test email going out to all HBO Max subscribers wasn't bad enough, HBO Max's Twitter account blamed an intern for the mistakenly sent email blast.