BleepingComputer
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No, it's not you. Twitter's like button is broken.- This is not a drill. 🚨 If you have an iPhone, install today's iOS 14.8 update to fix a zero-day zero-click vulnerability previously used to install spyware.
- Windows 11 is getting native support for 7-Zip, RAR, and GZ archives formats in an update coming this week.
- Scoop: Developer sabotages 'colors.js' and 'faker.js' open-source projects, breaking thousands of projects, in retaliation against big businesses exploiting open-source - @Ax_Sharma
- Canon USA is being sued for disabling the scan or fax features if a printer runs out of ink.
- A new malware is converting the Discord client into an information-stealing backdoor. This allows it to: * Collect info about the user * Check if payment info is stored * Copy first 50 chars of the clipboard * Execute extra commands from a remote site.
- Cute animation when pinning programs to the taskbar in Windows 11.
GIF - Update: Microsoft told BleepingComputer that the creation of the 'inetpub' folder after installing the April Windows updates is intentional and it should not be removed. The folder is also created in Windows 10. We asked further questions about why it is created.Windows 11 April update unexpectedly creates new ‘inetpub’ folder - @LawrenceAbrams bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft… bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft…
