Researchers disclosed a critical flaw in WP Maps Pro allowing attackers to create hardcoded admin accounts Exploitation is active: Wordfence blocked over 3,600 attempts in a single day Patch released May 20 (v6.1.1); users must upgrade immediately Criminals are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin to create admin accounts and thus…
Dutch NCSC and police dismantled a 17M‑device botnet by taking down 200 servers Asocks, previously tied to free Android VPN apps and promoted on Russian hacking forums, offered residential proxies often abused by cybercriminals Officials stress devices are assimilated via malware without consent A major botnet comprising 17 million devices was just taken offline late…
Cybercriminals tricked Meta’s AI customer support agent into forwarding password reset codes Stolen short‑handle accounts, valued at over $1M combined, were listed for sale across Telegram Attack highlights risk of delegating sensitive tasks to AI systems Cybercriminals successfully pulled off a social engineering attack against Meta’s customer support, tricking the representative into initiating a password…
The new Google Home Speaker could be arriving on June 25 Best Buy Canada updated its product listing with a release date The Google Store still reads ‘Coming Spring 2026’ Just when I thought the upcoming Google Home Speaker would never see the light of day, a possible release date has surfaced — and it…
If you weren’t upset while watching last week’s episode of Dutton Ranch, I’m sad to say that you have no heart. After the bull that Rip and Beth bought at the cattle auction turned out to be diseased, their entire cattle herd came down with cow foot and mouth disease. From there, it was all…
The MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ uses the new Intel Arc G3 APU, among the first gaming handhelds to use this chip, similarly to the recently unveiled Acer Predator Atlas 8 This new Intel Arc B370-powered iGPU features support for Multi-Frame Generation through XeSS 3, allowing the hardware to reach higher framerates Ergonomically, the MSI…
Nvidia has just announced its new Arm-based laptop chip at Computex 2026, firing a warning shot across the bow of Apple (who has found great success with its own Arm-based M-series chips), as well as Intel and AMD. While Nvidia has been mainly associated with graphics cards, and AI, in the past, the announcement of…
Microsoft Build 2026 takes place on June 2 and 3 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, marking the first time the conference has left Seattle since 2016. With in-person tickets priced at $1,099 and capacity capped at around 2,500 developers, this year’s event is deliberately compact, built around a single theme: AI agents. Satya…
ExpressVPN’s new products pass third-party review This brings its independent audits to 27 Some medium-severity issues were identified ExpressVPN is celebrating the results of a new independent audit carried out by third-party cybersecurity firm Cure53, bringing its total number of third-party assessments to a whopping 27. The new audits were completed on two products launched…
I’ve tried nearly all the best ereaders available today, including Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft, which I’ve found hard to recommend over the Kobo Libra Colour or the Kobo Clara Colour on account of its AU$399 RRP. However, there’s now a AU$100 discount on the Colorsoft that makes it a fabulous colour ereader to get during Amazon’s…