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Why printers add secret tracking dots They’re almost invisible but contain a hidden code – and now their presence on a leaked document has sparked speculation about their usefulness to FBI investigators. BBC Future has brought you in-depth and rigorous stories to help you navigate the current pandemic, but we…

Several vulnerabilities affecting the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) have been exploited by Russia-linked hackers, and administrators have been urged to patch immediately, but hundreds of thousands of servers remain unpatched. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) issued an alert last week to urge users to update their Exim servers…

Telco infrastructure builder Ericsson has landed a major win after Telefonica Deutschland named the Swedish biz as its 5G core network provider. By 2021, Telefonica's German arm, which trades under the O2 brand, will operate a core network using Ericsson's dual-mode architecture, which supports both 5G NSA (non-standalone access) and…

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This week the NSA warned the public that Russian military cyber actors have been exploiting a version of email software for several months at least. The exploited system is MTA software for Unix-based systems, Exim mail – software that’s installed with a number of Linux distributions by default. While the…

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) on Thursday published information on the targeting of Exim mail servers by the Russia-linked threat actor known as Sandworm Team. The open-source Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) is used broadly worldwide, powering more than half of the Internet’s email servers and also being pre-installed…

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has released a new alert warning that Russian state hackers have been exploiting a vulnerability in Exim email servers for over nine months. Exim is mail transfer agent (MTA) software developed by the University of Cambridge which is used on Unix-based operating systems. Bundled…

The Russian APT group Sandworm has been exploiting a critical Exim flaw (CVE-2019-10149) to compromise mail servers since August 2019, the NSA has warned in a security advisory published on Thursday. “When CVE-2019-10149 is successfully exploited, an actor is able to execute code of their choosing. When Sandworm exploited CVE-2019-10149,…

At least 14 members of the Afghan army have been killed in a Taliban attack as the Afghan government said the Eid ceasefire was not over yet. The Ministry of Defence said on Friday members of the Afghan army were killed in the province of Paktiya. Three others were also…

Home News (Image credit: MediaTek) As more and more MediaTek-powered smartphones hit the market, a renowned Chinese tipster has suggested that Xiaomi could have a Dimensity 1000+ SoC in the pipeline. The news comes shortly after Xiaomi sub-brand Redmi revealed the first set of Dimensity 820-powered phones called the Redmi…