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Amazon‘s cloud computing network suffered a five-hour outage on Tuesday, chiefly impacting individuals and businesses in the eastern United States. Online services provided by a swathe of companies were disrupted by the incident at Amazon Web Services, which also affected Amazon’s own e-commerce business. Gaming site League of Legends PUBG went down, and Tinder, Coinbase, Netflix, Slack, Ticketmaster, Instacart, Robinhood, and Disney+ were disrupted. Other companies waylaid by the outage included the Associated Press, whose publishing…

The latest version of Firefox is now available and includes an important step forward for web browser security. Image: Jack Wallen Firefox, the little browser that could, continues chugging along. And while other browsers are constantly battling one crisis or another, the Mozilla developers are addressing what matters most for modern web browsers: security. This time around, the developers have released Firefox 95, which includes a new subsystem, called RLBox.  RLBox is a new method…

Have you noticed that when parents gather, it doesn’t take long before the topic of kids and social media comes up. That’s because concern over screen time is a big deal, especially in this post-pandemic season. Parents want to know: How much is too much screen time? When should we step in? How do we reverse poor habits, and what will the lasting digital fallout of the lockdown be?   Device Dependence  These conversations weigh heavy on parents for a good reason. According to a report from Common Sense Media, teens spend an average of seven hours and 22 minutes on their phones a…

Have you noticed that when parents gather, it doesn’t take long before the topic of kids and social media comes up. That’s because concern over screen time is a big deal, especially in this post-pandemic season. Parents want to know: How much is too much screen time? When should we step in? How do we reverse poor habits, and what will the lasting digital fallout of the lockdown be?   Device Dependence  These conversations weigh heavy on parents for a good reason. According to a report from Common Sense Media, teens spend an average of seven hours and 22 minutes on their phones a…

A man from Canada has been charged with committing cybercrimes by both his native country and the United States. Matthew Philbert, of Ottawa, Ontario, is suspected of playing a leading role in multiple cyber-attacks using tactics that included a “malspam campaign” and the deployment of ransomware.  The 31-year-old was arrested by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) on November 30 and remains in custody.  The OPP announced Tuesday that Philbert had been accused of coordinating ransomware attacks on…

Even if you’re not taking advantage of the user interface that Docker provides with Docker Desktop and are simply using the CLI, you may still need a paid subscription to use Docker Desktop. Much of the value of Docker Desktop comes from making it easy to develop with containers locally on Windows and Mac. We announced updates to our product subscriptions back in August and as part of that change, Docker Desktop now requires a…

SonicWall patched eight vulnerabilities in its Secure Mobile Access 100 product line. None have been exploited in the wild, yet, but users are strongly urged to patch. Background On December 7, SonicWall issued an advisory (SNWLID-2021-0026) for eight CVEs in its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 product line of remote access gateways. As part of the advisory, SonicWall “strongly urges” its customers to patch these vulnerabilities in the SMA 200, 210, 400, 410 and 500v…