Month: June 2024
Home Depot Fourth of July Sale: Save on Appliances, Grills, Outdoor Furniture and More
Whether you’re entertaining for the Fourth of July or you just need to upgrade your appliances, Home Depot has some big savings ahead of the holiday.
Whether you’re entertaining for the Fourth of July or you just need to upgrade your appliances, Home Depot has some big savings ahead of the holiday.
Google Cuts Ties With Entrust in Chrome Over Trust Issues
Google is severing its trust in Entrust after what it describes as a protracted period of failures around compliance and general improvements. From a report: Entrust is one of the many certificate authorities (CA) used by Chrome to verify that the websites end users visit are trustworthy. From November 1 in Chrome 127, which recently entered beta, TLS server authentication certificates validating to Entrust or AffirmTrust roots won’t be trusted by default.
Google pointed to a series of incident reports over the past few years concerning Entrust, saying they “highlighted a pattern of concerning behaviors” that have ultimately seen the security company fall down in Google’s estimations. The incidents have “eroded confidence in [Entrust’s] competence, reliability, and integrity as a publicly trusted CA owner,” Google stated in a blog. The move follows a May publication by Mozilla, which compiled a sprawling list of Entrust’s certificate issues between March and May this year. Entrust — after an initial PR disaster — acknowledged its procedural failures and said it was treating the feedback as a learning opportunity.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Google is severing its trust in Entrust after what it describes as a protracted period of failures around compliance and general improvements. From a report: Entrust is one of the many certificate authorities (CA) used by Chrome to verify that the websites end users visit are trustworthy. From November 1 in Chrome 127, which recently entered beta, TLS server authentication certificates validating to Entrust or AffirmTrust roots won’t be trusted by default.
Google pointed to a series of incident reports over the past few years concerning Entrust, saying they “highlighted a pattern of concerning behaviors” that have ultimately seen the security company fall down in Google’s estimations. The incidents have “eroded confidence in [Entrust’s] competence, reliability, and integrity as a publicly trusted CA owner,” Google stated in a blog. The move follows a May publication by Mozilla, which compiled a sprawling list of Entrust’s certificate issues between March and May this year. Entrust — after an initial PR disaster — acknowledged its procedural failures and said it was treating the feedback as a learning opportunity.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
What to expect from ‘Interview with the Vampire’ Season 3
AMC renewed “Interview with the Vampire” for Season 3. Here’s what it’ll be about.
Ahead of Sunday’s Season 2 finale, AMC renewed its TV adaptation of Interview with the Vampire for a third season. Cue cheers and fainting (not from blood loss)!
Seasons 1 and 2 of Interview, unsurprisingly, focused on the first novel in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles series, Interview with the Vampire. What will Season 3 be about?
Interview with the Vampire Season 3
The next season will adapt the second book in Rice’s vampire series, The Vampire Lestat. As you would expect, this novel focuses on the character Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid). We saw a hint of The Vampire Lestat in Season 2 during a flashback to Lestat’s first meeting with the vampire Armand (Assad Zaman), and when Lestat mentions his former lover, Nicki. Season 3, however, will take an even bigger bite from Lestat’s story. (The AMC show has also planted Easter eggs for other books in the series.)
This is a summary of what IWTV Season 3 will hold, as shared in AMC’s press release:
Resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy best-seller Interview With the Vampire, the Vampire Lestat sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can — by starting a band and going on tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those Who Must Be Kept. They join Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed and others we can’t tell you about yet on a sexy pilgrimage across space, time and trauma. No Auto-Tuning. No Trigger Warnings. All Feels Amplified.
That’s right: It’s time for rock star Lestat. Other names in the announcement, like Lestat’s mother Gabrielle, are getting fans excited.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Reid also shared his excitement over the growing cast of characters, saying, “For me, Gabrielle, Lestat’s mother, is such an amazing character. I really can’t wait to meet her and see what that character is like, and I also think the dynamic between Gabrielle, Louis and Lestat is really interesting, so I’m very keen to see how that unfolds.”
On Lestat’s music career, he told THR, “Because we have [composer] Daniel Hart helming the music of the show, I’m very excited to see whatever he creates, and to be working with him on that is astonishing.” Hart is a frequent collaborator with filmmaker David Lowery, having composed music for Lowery’s films since 2013’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, and he has also worked as a touring musician for bands such as St. Vincent and Broken Social Scene.
AMC hasn’t released more details about the season, including when it’ll air, but fans can read the 1985 novel The Vampire Lestat for a taste of what’s coming. The modern-day portion of the series is set in 2020s Dubai, as journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) interviews Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) and Armand for his exposé on vampires. Since The Vampire Lestat takes place post-publication of the titular interviews with vampires, fans are already speculating what a 2020s music career for Lestat will look like: Promoting music on TikTok? Brat prince summer?
Some AMC shows, including IWTV, will soon be available to stream on Netflix, though no release date has been announced. For now, Interview with the Vampire airs on AMC and AMC+.
DEI? More like ‘common decency’ — and Silicon Valley is saying ‘no thanks’
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This new threat infects devices with a dozen malware at once
Unfurling Hemlock doesn’t bother trying to hide itself – it just bombards with multiple malware variants.
Cybersecurity researchers from Outpost24’s KrakenLabs observed a new and quite unique malware campaign that seems to values quantity over quality.
Usually, when hackers compromise a device, they deploy a single piece of malware and try their best to remain unseen and persistent, as they use the computer for whatever end goal they have.
But this new campaign, dubbed Unfurling Hemlock, does the exact opposite, making it stand out in the world of cybercrime. The researchers are saying that once the victim triggers the malware executable – in this case called ‘EXTRACT.EXE’ – they receive a handful of different malware, infostealers, and botnet executables.
Malware cluster bomb
The chances of the malware being picked up by cybersecurity solutions is high, but the researchers believe the attackers are hoping at least some of the payloads will survive the purge. Among the things dropped on the devices are Redline (popular infostealer), RisePro (an upcoming infostealer), Mystic Stealer (infostealing malware-as-a-service), Amadey (loader), SmokeLoader (another loader), Protection Disabler (a utility that disables Windows Defender and other security features), Enigma Packer (obfuscation tool), Healer (anti-security solution), and Performance Checker (a utility that checks and logs the performance of malware execution).
This “malware cluster bomb” was first spotted in February 2024, the researchers said, claiming to have seen more than 50,000 cluster bomb files, all with unique characteristics that link them back to Unfurling Hemlock.
KrakenLabs could not say with absolute certainty who the threat actors behind Unfurling Hemlock are, but they are fairly confident they are of Eastern European origin. Some of the evidence pointing in that direction is the use of Russian language in some of the samples, and the use of the Autonomous System 203727, related to a hosting service cybercrime groups in the region usually use.
Luckily enough, the malware being pushed through this campaign is well-known and most reputable antivirus programs will flag it.
Via BleepingComputer
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Walmart Fourth of July Sale: Snag Deep Discounts on Tech, Appliances, Home Goods and Much More
You can nab a ton of amazing deals for the whole family ahead of Independence Day.
You can nab a ton of amazing deals for the whole family ahead of Independence Day.