Gnome’s top bar can auto-hide itself like the left dock panel does via a Gnome Shell extension. In Ubuntu 18.04, you can enable the feature by installing the gnome shell extension easily from Ubuntu Software. In Ubuntu 20.04, it’s still ...
A 17-year-old teen and two other 19 and 22-year-old individuals have reportedly been arrested for being the alleged mastermind behind the recent Twitter hack that simultaneously targeted several high-profile accounts within minutes as part of a massive bitcoin scam. According ...
The Council of the European Union has imposed its first-ever sanctions against persons or entities involved in various cyber-attacks targeting European citizens, and its member states. The directive has been issued against six individuals and three entities responsible for or ...
Security researchers have outlined a new technique that renders a remote timing-based side-channel attack more effective regardless of the network congestion between the adversary and the target server. Remote timing attacks that work over a network connection are predominantly affected ...
This simple tutorial shows how to install Conky Manager, a graphical front-end for Conky system monitor, in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Conky is a light-weight system monitor that displays any kind of information on your desktop. Conky Manager is a graphical ...
Looking for a desktop magnifier? Besides enabling the built-in screen magnifier, there are a few third-party applications can do the job. Magnus is a very simple desktop magnifier written in Python 3. It shows the area around the mouse pointer ...
Popular video conferencing app Zoom recently fixed a new security flaw that could have allowed potential attackers to crack the numeric passcode used to secure private meetings on the platform and snoop on participants. Zoom meetings are by default protected ...
This quick tip shows how to display the battery percentage in the top panel system tray area in Ubuntu 20.04 with the default Gnome desktop. Single command to show battery percentage: For those familiar with Linux commands, this can be ...
A team of cybersecurity researchers today disclosed details of a new high-risk vulnerability affecting billions of devices worldwide—including servers and workstations, laptops, desktops, and IoT systems running nearly any Linux distribution or Windows system. Dubbed ‘BootHole’ and tracked as CVE-2020-10713, ...
Many endpoint security vendors are beginning to offer their applications only in the cloud, sunsetting their on-premise offerings. This approach may be beneficial to the vendor, but many clients continue to need on-premise solutions. Vendors that sunset on-premise solutions force ...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered critical vulnerabilities in industrial VPN implementations primarily used to provide remote access to operational technology (OT) networks that could allow hackers to overwrite data, execute malicious code, and compromise industrial control systems (ICS). A new report ...
Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed several security issues in popular online dating platform OkCupid that could potentially let attackers remotely spy on users’ private information or perform malicious actions on behalf of the targeted accounts. According to a report shared with ...
Kodi Media Center 18.8 was released today with various fixes. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 20.04. Kodi 18.8 is likely to be the final release in the 18.x “Leia” series. Release highlights include: ...
Opera web browser 70 was released a day ago improvements to existing features and tools. Opera 70 release highlights include: The history and bookmark panels now has wider search field. Search in Tabs feature now include recently-closed tabs section. Search ...
Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a completely undetectable Linux malware that exploits undocumented techniques to stay under the radar and targets publicly accessible Docker servers hosted with popular cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud. Docker is a popular platform-as-a-service ...