By Mike Taylor | on November 04, 2021 This is a tough time of year. Summer is over and winter looms like the Snowman of Doom. (The Snowman of Doom — aka “Frosty Pete” — is a mythical Norse character I just made up.) What? Do you think other, more familiar Nordic characters weren’t made up? Good luck bumping elbows with Thor anywhere other than a movie theater or comic book convention, pal! Source link

Thirty years ago the height of posh was owning a portable landline phone. Now our smartphones are personal computers that can process natural language commands and run AI models on-device. In another 30 years, according to the experts, we’ll have flying cars, robot butlers, and colonies on Mars. Right? Maybe, maybe not. The next 30 years of computer advances don’t seem quite as certain as the last were. We’re pushing up against Moore’s law and beginning to get diminishing returns when it comes to creating more powerful classical systems. On the other hand, we’re also on the cusp of several new computing paradigms. And it’s clear that, at some point, we’ll move beyond traditional supercomputing. Whether that happens in the next 30, 50, or 100 years, however, is a different… Source link

The Cring ransomware group continues to make a name for itself through attacks on aging ColdFusion servers and VPNs after emerging earlier this year.  Experts like Digital Shadows Sean Nikkel told ZDNet that what makes Cring interesting is that so far, they appear to specialize in using older vulnerabilities in their attacks.  “In a previous incident, Cring operators exploited a two-year-old FortiGate VPN vulnerability to target end-of-life Microsoft and Adobe applications. This should be a wake-up call for system owners everywhere who are using end-of-life or otherwise unsupported systems that are exposed to the internet at large,” Nikkel said.  “While Cring… Source link