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Stansted IT glitch causes thousands to miss their flights
Travelers at London Stansted Airport, Essex, were left bound to terra firma on Sunday 11 May after an IT issue led to massive delays across several airlines. In a statement to the PA news agency, the airport said only that there was an “IT outage” that occurred when the terminal was particularly busy on Sunday morning. The airport told ITPro…
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Thousands of Chicco MyFit Car Seats Are Being Recalled
Seats recalled: 30,984 Chicco MyFit Zip Air Harness + Booster car seats across two models have been recalled: Refer to the model number below to see if your car seat is affected. You can find the model number on the manufacturing label on your car seat (you may have to check under the seat cover or the seat itself). Model…
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IT workers are having to put out more fires than ever – and it’s costing employers thousands of dollars a year through lost productivity
Recurring tech issues mean IT professionals cost their employers an average of $7,800 a year in productivity losses, with some wasting 52 hours on troubleshooting alone. The average IT professional has to deal with 144 technical issues each year, according to a new report from Liquid Web, with each incident costing around $50 on average. Problems often show up as…
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Apple Removes Thousands of Apps Due to Digital Services Act Requirements
Apple has removed thousands of apps from its European Union App Store for failing to comply with the Digital Services Act, which requires developers to provide a verified address, email, and phone number. This move is part of Apple’s broader efforts to adhere to new regulations aimed at increasing transparency and accountability in digital marketplaces. Developers who have not submitted…
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US authorities just purged malware from thousands of devices across the world
The US Justice Department and FBI have revealed a joint operation with international partners was able to delete malware injected by Chinese threat actors to thousands of devices around the world. Announced on 14 January, the months-long operation was conducted in collaboration with French law enforcement in which the PlugX malware was removed from more than 4,200 computers worldwide. According…
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Ultralytics AI model hijacked to infect thousands with cryptominer
The popular Ultralytics YOLO11 AI model was compromised in a supply chain attack to deploy cryptominers on devices running versions 8.3.41 and 8.3.42 from the Python Package Index (PyPI) Ultralytics is a software development company specializing in computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI), specifically in object detection and image processing. It’s best known for its “YOLO” (You Only Look Once)…
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Hackers abuse popular Godot game engine to infect thousands of PCs
Hackers have used new GodLoader malware exploiting the capabilities of the widely used Godot game engine to evade detection and infect over 17,000 systems in just three months. As Check Point Research found while investigating the attacks, threat actors can use this malware loader to target gamers across all major platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. It’s also…
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Slow websites cost businesses thousands per year
Poor website performance is costing businesses thousands per year – as much as 15% of annual revenue. A survey of 206 businesses with an average annual revenue of $119,000 by Liquid Web found they lose an average of $20,172 per year because of poor website performance. More than one in ten said they’d experienced website downtime in the last year,…
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Fortive Corporation subsidiaries notify thousands of data breach that compromised SSNs, payment info
20 subsidiaries of industrial technology conglomerate Fortive Corporation over the weekend confirmed they notified at least 31,478 people of a January 2023 data breach that compromised some or all of the following private information: Name Social Security number Financial account number Credit or debit card number Health insurance information Driver’s license number Passport number Birth certificate number Date of birth…
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IBM has reportedly laid off thousands – Computerworld
IBM spokesperson Sarah Minkel emailed a rather vague statement to Computerworld that seemed to confirm the layoffs: “Early this year, IBM disclosed a workforce rebalancing charge that would represent a very low single digit percentage of IBM’s global workforce, and we still expect to exit 2024 at roughly the same level of employment as we entered with.” The Register did…
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