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Wall of Flippers is the way to put a stop to Flipper Zero

Dataconomy

Soon, custom firmware emerged, expanding the attack canvas to Android and Windows, spamming users with unwanted advertisements, and potentially compromising device security. Wall of Flippers is an open-source Python project offers a beacon of hope. Wall of Flippers is an open-source Python project offers a beacon of hope.

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Lazarus APT Targeting Cryptocurrency, CISA Warns

SecureWorld News

The threat actors use social engineering to encourage individuals to download trojanized cryptocurrency applications on Windows or macOS operating systems. The malicious applications are derived from a variety of open-source projects and purport to be cryptocurrency trading or price prediction tools.

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How your browser can make your online life a little more private

Vox

Safari is Apple’s native browser, which means it’s also only available for Apple devices (a Windows version is no longer supported). Brave also lets you use Tor in its “private window” feature — more on Tor later. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. Safari: Only for Apple and rather private.

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Technology Short Take 153

Scott Lowe

This article contains some good information on IPv6 for those who are just starting to get more familiar with it, although toward the end it turns into a bit of an advertisement. Although Linux is often considered to be superior to Windows and macOS with regard to security, it is not without its own security flaws. Networking.

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How the Covid-19 pandemic broke Nextdoor

Vox

Much of that discussion was productive and generally positive: Neighborhoods used the platform to coordinate what songs to sing from their windows during lockdown and offered to help each other out, says Jenn Takahashi, who runs the popular Best of Nextdoor account on Twitter that aggregates some of the funniest posts on the platform.

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Our predictions for the next year in audio

The Verge

There is one thing that binds the many products under the Automattic umbrella together: a bet on and belief in the open web and open-source software,” writes David Pierce. But the way Mullenweg sees it, open is still going to win. There will be fewer exclusive show deals and more windowing.

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Technology Short Take #31

Scott Lowe

I’ve tested it and it works as advertised. He describes cloud as the synthesis of many different forms of innovation within IT , pulling together things like open source, virtualization, distributed programming, NoSQL, DevOps/NoOps, distributed teams, dynamic languages, and Big Data (among others).

Storage 108