Miscellaneous Tech News
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Coronavirus: Zoom is in everyone's living room - how safe is it?
Zoom, the video-conferencing app that has seen a huge rise in downloads since quarantines were imposed around the world, is now being used by millions for work and social gatherings.
This week Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted a picture of himself chairing a Cabinet meeting via the app. This led to questions about how secure it was for government meetings. Zoom has angrily defended its security record, saying it would answer any questions the government had. It was closely followed by reports that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was suspending use of the app, something it strenuously denied. -
Food wholesalers offer online orders to sell stock
Food wholesalers are making online home deliveries in response to Covid-19 measures.
As bars, restaurants and hotels shut due to government restrictions, the wholesalers that usually provide them with food and drink, have seen a huge drop in business. But with stock to shift, they are determined to find new customers. Members of the Federation of Wholesale Distributors have seen a 70% decline in trade over the past two weeks, “Food distributors have seen their market disappear overnight,” says chief executive James Bielby. “Companies have bought in stock, and the vast majority of it is going to waste as they can’t sell it, and in a lot of cases they haven’t been paid. -
Coronavirus: Tech firm Bloom Energy fixes broken US ventilators
A Californian company that usually makes green-energy fuel cells is due to deliver 170 repaired ventilators to Los Angeles later on Monday after transforming its manufacturing process.
An engineer at Bloom Energy downloaded the service manual and taught himself how to dismantle and rebuild them in a day, the Los Angeles Times reported. They had been in storage since the H5N1 bird flu outbreak of the mid-2000s. Bloom says it is now working to find other stockpiles of disused machines. On Saturday, as California Governor Gavin Newsom visited the manufacturing plant, he said: “We got a car and a truck and had [them] brought here to this facility at 08:00 this morning. -
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Release of openmediavault 5 (Usul)
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
backups with RAM is pretty cool. Finally a way to get in flight systems!
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TechCrunch: Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/zoom-at-your-own-risk/Lots of security issues. Zoom was never meant to be used in such a wide scale. Interestingly, they called me in Feb for a job interview that never came to fruition.
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Coronavirus: Moscow rolls out patient-tracking app
Moscow is launching an app to track the movements of people in the capital diagnosed with coronavirus, who have been ordered to stay at home.
The city's IT chief said the service would become operational on Thursday. The move coincides with a separate initiative to help European health authorities create virus-tracing apps that communicate with each other. This could help relax border restrictions. Germany is expected to announce its own app that ties into the scheme shortly. NHSX, which is working on similar for the UK, has been in communication with those running the project but has yet to commit to interoperability. -
TSB customers hit by online banking outage
A number of TSB customers were left unable to access online banking and mobile app services for both Android and iOS on Wednesday.
Independent website DownDetector, which tracks social-media posts on how sites are performing, showed hundreds of customers complaining of an outage. Users were met with an "unexpected error" and some said they had been left with no way to access their accounts. TSB said that the issue had now be solved. In a statement it told the BBC: "We experienced intermittent issues with our mobile and internet banking services earlier today. All our services are now working, however if customers experience an error message they should try logging on again." -
Alleged, but a huge deal that it is in court.
Zoom sued for allegedly sharing users' personal data with Facebook
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Typical when the day before in install the previous version on my home lab
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@hobbit666 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Typical when the day before in install the previous version on my home lab
Perfect timing... now you can test the upgrade process.
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PowerToys updated recently, v 0.16.0 - looks like it's already in Chocolatey (public)
Noticed it here -> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-updates-windows-10-powertoys-with-new-utilities/
github link -> https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.16.0
Has a "Bulk image resizer", SVG preview pane add-in etc
What caught my eye was "Window walker" (alt tab replacement) ..... anyone used it?
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Windows 10 alert: Zoom client can leak your network login credentials
Users of the Zoom Windows client's chat feature need to be cautious about clicking on links.
On the heels of Zoom's iPhone privacy blunder, a security researcher has found that attackers can use the Zoom Windows client's group chat feature to share links that will leak the Windows network credentials of anyone who clicks on them. Zoom is under extra scrutiny as usage of the video conference app has surged during the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. -
Coronavirus threatens the next generation of smartphones
Every Autumn, Mazen Kourouche heads to the biggest Apple Store in Sydney, Australia, and queues up for hours to be one of the first people in the world to get his hands on the latest iPhone.
"Since the iPhone 7 came out I've been lining up for the new Apple devices for a few reasons: firstly the hype associated with them, secondly because of the resale value, and thirdly because Australia is the first country to get access to the devices, so people are interested in hearing about it," he says. According to Mr Kourouche, who develops software for the iPhone operating system (iOS), many people would usually travel from overseas to get their hands on the iPhone in Australia. The nation's time zone means its Apple stores are the first to open around the world on launch day. -
JumpCloud Free version now has the System Insights feature included
" A core philosophy at JumpCloud has always been to provide tremendous functionality to customers, including free accounts with up to 10 users and systems. It’s critical that IT admins can fully deploy and use our platform without restrictions, especially during times when managing a remote workforce is necessary.
To support this, we've made our new premium feature System Insights available to use for all JumpCloud free accounts like yours. System Insights provides critical visibility into OS configurations and security settings on JumpCloud-managed systems. We hope that you’ll use and enjoy this new and exciting feature to:
- Remotely collect data on OS version, patches, kernel info, and app versions in order to find recently reported security vulnerabilities and take appropriate action
- Track the applications end users are installing on systems to find out-of-date software and licenses
- Troubleshoot user issues and mitigate them with easy access to system data such as uptime, network interfaces, shared resources, hardware, and more
- Gather deep insights from 64bit Mac, Windows, and Linux operating systems "
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Today’s tshirt.
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Coronavirus: Google reveals travel habits during the pandemic
Google is to publicly track people's movements over the course of the coronavirus pandemic.
The tech firm will publish details of the different types of places people are going to on a county-by-county basis in the UK, as well as similar data for 130 other countries. The plan is to issue a regular updates with the figures referring back to activity from two or three days prior. The company has promised that individuals' privacy will be preserved. The readings are based on location data gathered via the Google Maps app or one of the firm's other mobile services.
