Are you always turning up the brightness on your screen to use like a light when you’re on Zoom? Need a charger for your smartphone when using it like a wireless hotspot? It sounds like you need to check out Rolling Square’s Edge kit. What is in the Edge kit? It consists of three parts: A mount that attaches to your laptop or tabletA wireless charger that magnetically attaches to the mount, to which you attach your smartphoneA light...

Or it’s just a pain to fumble with the smartphone to get the flashlight working. This is why I still carry a keychain flashlight. But the Nitecore Tiki GITD I carry is no ordinary flashlight. There’s an awful lot packed into this tiny keychain: The main LED has four settings, from a super-bright 300 lumens to a 1 lumen glow, making it perfect for a variety of uses. For such a small flashlight, it’s capable of throwing a beam of light up to 77 meters, and can also put out a more subtle glow....

Making its debut in 2015, AMSI is a vendor-agnostic interface designed to integrate anti-malware products on a Windows machine and better protect end users, supporting features including scan request correlation and content source URL/IP reputation checks. AMSI’s integration with Office 365 was recently upgraded to include Excel 4.0 (XLM) macro scanning to try and combat the increase of malicious macros as an infection vector. Microsoft’s security solution is a barrier that today’s Windows malware developers often try to circumvent – either by methods such as obfuscation, steganography, or by preventing a file from being scanned and detected as malicious in initial attack stages....

Researchers at Splunk tested how quickly 10 major ransomware strains encrypted networks – and some were much more effective than others at doing the job quickly, something that makes the attackers harder to stop. The fastest form of ransomware is LockBit, which took a median time of just 5 minutes and 50 seconds to encrypt 100,000 files. In one of the tests, it only took LockBit 4 minutes and 9 seconds to encrypt the files measuring in at 53....

The flaw in the pac-resolver dependency was found by developer Tim Perry who notes it could have allowed an attacker on a local network to remotely run malicious code inside a Node.js process whenever an operator tried to send an HTTP request. Note.js is the popular JavaScript runtime for running JavaScript web applications. “This package is used for PAC file support in Pac-Proxy-Agent, which is used in turn in Proxy-Agent, which then used all over the place as the standard go-to package for HTTP proxy autodetection & configuration in Node....

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a startup that spun out of the University of Oxford, is approaching superconducting quantum computing slightly differently. Leading superconducting quantum systems are typically built in a two-dimensional plane, with each qubit acting like a unit cell that requires intricate wiring for controls and measurements. Increasing the number of qubits means increasing the amount of wiring – and on a 2D plane, this comes with a higher risk of creating environmental noise that can damage the quality of the system....

Cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro have detailed an increase in LockBit ransomware campaigns since the start of July. This ransomware-as-a-service first appeared in September 2019 and has been relatively successful, but has seen a surge in activity this summer. In adverts on underground forums, LockBit’s authors claim that LockBit 2.0 is one of the fastest file-encrypting ransomware variants in the market today. And those claims have proven interesting to cyber criminals seeking to make money from ransomware....

Dozens of companies have pledged to keep remote work in some form since turning to it during the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote’s global top ten rankings include Toronto, Madrid, Auckland, Madeira, Helsinki, Svalbard, Berlin, Valparaiso, Dublin and Sydney. The company compiled the ranking based on seven metrics: internet infrastructure, attractiveness, safety, quality of life, openness, cost of living and special incentives for remote workers. Remote also created an interactive tool that allows people to create their own list based on their personal preferences and search for places that might match their desires....

The Get Away Special Passive Attitude Control Satellite [GASPCAS] CubeSat was deployed from the International Space Station in January 2022, and has been tracked by ground stations globally since. Developed by undergraduates from Utah State University, the project’s main objective was to test the experimental inflatable stabilization system called ‘AeroBoom’, which successfully demonstrated that small spacecraft can self-stabilise in orbit. SEE: NASA’s Mars helicopter has a problem. This clever software trick could fix it The mission was completed within the first 18 hours in orbit, as photos sent back to Earth from the onboard Raspberry Pi Camera confirmed....

iScanner is the tool that turns your iOS device into a mobile digital office by completing educational, personal or business tasks with the help of artificial intelligence. And it’s currently on sale for just $39.99. Students and small business professionals such as realtors, lawyers and accountants will benefit from iScanner’s many features. It allows you to scan multiple pages into a single document and edit, sign, stamp and fax. You can scan photos and documents to JPG, PDF or TXT formats, as well....

The iPhone – and modern smartphones in general – are built around the idea of constant connectivity. But some people don’t have the luxury of unlimited data, and for them, going over their cellular allowance can either be costly or inconvenient. There’s a feature built into iOS that, in the event of your Wi-Fi connection being poor, can fall back onto your cellular connection. Good if you have a larger or unlimited plan....

Twitter reported an operating loss of $537 million for the third quarter due to a one-time litigation-related net charge of $766 million. Twitter reported a 54-cent loss per share on revenue of $1.28 billion, up 37% from a year ago. The $766 million charge is related to a settlement the company was forced to pay in September after allegedly giving investors misleading user growth metrics. Wall Street was expecting Twitter to report non-GAAP earnings of 15 cents a share on revenue of $1....

In carrying out the review, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it found that through buying Giphy, Facebook would be able to increase its “already significant market power” by denying or limiting other platforms’ access to Giphy GIFs and driving more traffic to Facebook-owned sites – Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram – which already account for 73% of user time spent on social media in the UK. CMA added it found Facebook could also change the terms of access by, for instance, requiring other social media platforms like TikTok, Twitter, and Snapchat to provide more user data to access Giphy GIFs....

On January 25, the NCSC said the trial project is a joint effort between the cybersecurity guidance organization and the Industry 100 (i100). i100 is a cohort of public and private sector companies working with the NCSC to “bring industry and government expertise together in a way that helps us all learn lessons, identify systemic vulnerabilities and reduce the future impact of cyberattacks.” The project is called Scanning Made Easy (SME) and is a collection of NMAP Scripting Engine (NSE) scripts developed to tackle what NCSC calls a “frustrating” problem: the use of scripts that are not suitable, or necessarily safe, to run....

The websites for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Security Service (SBU) and Cabinet of Ministers all faced outages confirmed both by the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection and Netblocks, an organization tracking internet outages around the world. PrivatBank, the largest commercial bank in Ukraine, and Oschadbank, the State Savings Bank of Ukraine, both dealt with outages too. Cloudflare told ZDNet that they have seen sporadic DDoS activity in Ukraine....

While they talk about being “interconnected”, the reality today is that hyperscalers currently operate like isolated operating systems, according to Simon Piff, IDC’s Asia-Pacific vice president. This presents a significantly challenging piece for organisations in the region, Piff told ZDNET. It would fuel the need for multi-cloud management and cross-cloud security strategies as the next phase of development in the market, he said. This would result in tremendous opportunities for systems integrators and software vendors able to remove the complexities and offer the integration tools necessary to make multi-cloud management seamless, the analyst said....

The new Carbon Black Cloud Managed Detection and Response (MDR) for endpoints and workloads is supported by analysts with decades of experience. They monitor and analyze data for customers in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud using advanced machine learning and algorithmic toolsets. The threat analysis team “has not only expertise derived over many years but also the ability to watch the threat landscape over a broad spectrum,” Kal De, VP and GM of VMware’s Security Business Unit, said to ZDNet....

Auckland District Court ruled last Friday that Vodafone NZ was guilty on nine charges of violating the Fair Trading Act between October 2016 and March 2018. The New Zealand Commerce Commission (ComCom), which brought the case last year, argued fibre was a generic description of fibre to the home, especially in relation to the country’s government-subsidised Ultra-Fast Broadband network, and consumers where likely to think the same in Wellington, Kapiti, and Christchurch where Vodafone was promoting its FibreX service....

Apple AirPods (2nd Generation) for $99.99 ($60 off)Apple AirPods (3rd Generation) for $139.99 ($40 off) (Out of stock)Apple AirPods Pro for $179.99 ($70 off)Apple AIrPods Max for $479.99 ($70 off) Whichever model you decide to purchase, Walmart promises a delivery date as soon as this Sunday (December 12), though, the timing will vary based on your zip code and availability. Also: See how the Apple AirPods fare in ZDNet’s best wireless earbuds roundup

Dozens of countries and states across the US are creating digital ways for people to carry around proof that they have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Walmart’s plan will have their customers store it in a pharmacy account on Walmart.com or Samsclub.com. Walmart’s vaccine record can also be printed and shared. The company said the vaccine record is based on a free digital version of the cards given to people by the CDC after being vaccinated against COVID-19....