In a release on Wednesday evening, the organization said it discovered a “sophisticated cybersecurity attack” this week that targeted servers hosting the information of people who have been separated from their families due to conflict, migration, and disaster as well as missing persons, their families, and people in detention. According to the statement, the data accessed came from at least 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies located around the world....

Nanocore, Netwire, and AsyncRAT payloads are being deployed from public cloud systems in what Cisco Talos suggests is a way for cyberattackers to avoid having to own or manage their own private, paid infrastructure – such as through ‘bulletproof’ hosting which may eventually capture the interest of law enforcement. “These types of cloud services like Azure and AWS allow attackers to set up their infrastructure and connect to the internet with minimal time or monetary commitments,” Talos says....

Researchers from cybersecurity firm Salt Security discovered issues that allowed them to not only launch attacks where any user could extract sensitive customer and system data but also allowed any user to create a denial of service condition that would render the system unavailable. The researchers said they first discovered the vulnerability while protecting one of their customers, a large online business-to-consumer platform that provides API-based mobile applications and software as a service to millions of global users....

You might think this makes for a high price of entry for getting started with podcasting. While there are cheaper options, the Rode Procaster microphone hits an excellent sweet spot in that cost of entry. It provides exceptional audio fidelity that shines with simple equipment and has both the build quality and technical specifications to grow with you as you expand your audio content empire. Let’s take a look at one of the best ways to get into high-quality audio production for under $200....

The team behind Next Gen Stats (NGS) created the “Passing Score” statistic to assess whether a quarterback made the optimal decision after the play. The NFL said dozens of quarterback evaluation metrics exist but they all miss out on isolating the specific variables a quarterback must evaluate before a passing play. Josh Helmrich, NFL Director of strategy and business development, told ZDNet that AWS and the NFL worked together to combine 7 different machine learning models and several play variables to create the Next Gen Stats Passing Score....

Not so much for tech workers, however. According to an analysis of UK jobs data by Hackajob, starting salaries for software engineers are “at least” 64% higher than the national average – and despite rising inflation, they show no sign of slowing. While a small proportion of companies have announced hiring freezes in recent months, the demand for software developers continues to outstrip supply. The median salary in the UK in 2021 was £25,971; in the tech industry, most starting salaries fall between £40,000 ($50,000) and £49,000 ($56,300) per year, Hackajob found....

I’m going to focus solely on the Galaxy S22 and how it compares to last year’s Galaxy S21. If you’re curious how the rest of the S22 lineup compares and contrasts against its 2021 equivalent, make sure to check out Matthew Miller’s breakdown of the S21 Ultra and S22 Ultra. Back to the S21 and S22. Reviews: Galaxy S21 5G review: Premium features, compact size, and reasonable priceGalaxy S22 Plus review: This is the Galaxy you’re looking forGalaxy S22 Ultra review: Any more perfect and it’d be an iPhone 13 Pro Max...

It is an increase of 19% and 53.4%, respectively, from the same time period a year prior. It is also Samsung’s highest operating profit in nearly three years. South Korean analysts said high demand for semiconductors is what propelled the growth. Samsung’s chip business is thought to have contributed over half of the company’s operating income for the quarter. Memory semiconductor prices jumped in the second quarter and demand for them remained solid in PC and servers due to the pandemic, analysts said....

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The South Korean tech giant said it reached the number 39 days after it began selling the phones in the country. This makes the foldables its third-fastest set of smartphones to reach a million units, after Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy S8, Samsung said. A total of 270,000 units of Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3 were sold on the first day of sales, the company’s highest first-day sales for smartphones to date in South Korea, it added....

The service uses ultra-wideband (UWB) technology and those with a Fold 3 can use it to open and lock doors of the Genesis GV60 electric vehicle by merely being in close proximity to the car, the South Korean tech giant said. UWB, like Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, is a short-range radio communication technology used to transmit data known to be highly precise. Samsung will offer the service through a software update later this year....

Earlier, Samsung hinted that the new Galaxy S phone will take inspiration from the discontinued Galaxy Note. “At Unpacked in February 2022, we’ll introduce you to the most noteworthy S series device we’ve ever created,” TM Roh, President and Head of Samsung MX, wrote in a blog post. Samsung also hinted at the innovation users should expect from the new device in a short promo video with captions that read, “Breakthrough the night” and “Break the rules of light....

You don’t need a promotional code or anything at checkout – Nomad Goods has already applied the discount on everything from the AirTag Leather Loop to a Horween Leather Card Wallet. Even though Nomad Goods primarily has accessories for Apple products, the company does have some Pixel phone cases and wireless charging pads. I reviewed the Base Station Pro, a wireless charging pad that can handle three devices at the same time across the full surface of the pad....

Organisations from both sides also would receive financial support to co-develop commercial products and services, according to a joint ministerial statement released Monday. This funding would come under the France-Singapore Joint Innovation Call, which was led by Enterprise Singapore and Bpifrance. The France-Singapore Digital and Green Partnership would provide a “structured” platform for the two countries to cooperate in projects across a range of digital and green issues. These, along with the targeted outcomes, would be outlined in the workplan and comprise sectors such as smart transport, smart cities, financial innovation, and education technology....

Smaller organisations often had to grapple with limited budgets and manpower, and would want certainty in how much they had to invest. This was pushing more to look at cyber insurance as a way to achieve this, said Ang Yuit, vice president of strategies development for the Association of Small & Medium Enterprises (ASME), an industry group which members comprise Singapore SMBs. Responding to ZDNet’s query about the adoption of cyber insurance amongst SMBs, Ang noted that such services provided a way for SMBs to boost their cybersecurity posture while managing their costs....

In a SGX filing Thursday, Creative said Sim died on January 4 and named its current president of Creative Labs Song Siow Hui as interim CEO. The company’s independent non-executive director Lee Kheng Nam has been appointed acting chairman. Describing Sim’s passing as a “sad and sudden development”, Song said he “recently had extensive discussions” with Sim on Creative’s future direction, including one with the engineering team the night before his demise....

The 40% cash and 60% stock deal will close in the first half of 2022, and Skillsoft said it secured financing from Barclays and Citigroup for the deal. Codecademy brought in about $42 million in revenue in 2021 and has $47 million in bookings for the calendar year. Skillsoft estimates its fiscal 2022 revenue may reach $700 million. Founded in 2011, Codecademy now has about 40 million users, and Skillsoft plans to incorporate the platform into more Fortune 1,000 companies while also expanding the curriculum....

But those numbers will conceal a huge variety in outlook and opportunity; some of those are long-standing firms with little interest in change, others are start-ups embarking on a make-or-break first year in operation (and don’t forget that one in five will fail in their first year). In those millions of businesses there will be some who are obsessed with the latest technology, and others who are only grudgingly adopting it....

The tech company said Afeela represents a “new chapter in the history of how people move” through a new prototype that combines Sony’s sensing and AI technologies with Honda’s safety protocols. “Afeela represents our concept of an interactive relationship where people feel the sensation of interactive mobility and where mobility can detect and understand people and society by utilizing sensing and AI technologies,” Sony Honda mobility CEO Yasuhide Mizuno said during Wednesday evening’s presentation at CES....

A survey of 500 IT decision makers and 542 16 to 24-year-olds by CWJobs found that young people feel they lack the necessary skills and knowledge to pursue a career in tech, despite the fact many see it as a promising career path. The report, The Digital Generation: Tapping into future tech talent, found thatyoung people also undervalue their role in closing the widening tech skills gap and view the industry as inaccessible, either because they view it as too complicated or because they feel limited by other factors such as their age or gender....