Author: admin

Ivanti on Thursday announced emergency patches for two critical-severity vulnerabilities in Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) that have been exploited in the wild as zero-days. Tracked as CVE-2026-1281 and CVE-2026-1340 (CVSS score of 9.8), the bugs are described as code injection issues that could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution (RCE). The flaws impact the in-house application distribution and the Android file transfer configuration features of EPMM. Successful exploitation of the zero-days could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code, move laterally to the connected environment, and access sensitive information stored in the EPMM. Such information may include…

Read More

Your soundbar should always sound better than a flat-panel TV’s built-in speakers, but I’m willing to bet it’s not working at its peak potential. If your audio still feels flat, compressed, or underwhelming, instead of bigger, clearer, and more cinematic, the issue might not be your speaker at all, but the cable that connects it. Plenty of people I know still rely on optical (TOSLINK) audio cables for their soundbars. This is perfectly understandable, as for years it was the standard for soundbar connections, and many TVs still feature an optical port. However, technology has moved on. Now that streaming…

Read More

Ravie LakshmananJan 30, 2026Vulnerability / Email Security SmarterTools has addressed two more security flaws in SmarterMail email software, including one critical security flaw that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24423, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of 10.0. “SmarterTools SmarterMail versions prior to build 9511 contain an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the ConnectToHub API method,” according to a description of the flaw in CVE.org. “The attacker could point the SmarterMail to the malicious HTTP server, which serves the malicious OS [operating system] command. This command will be executed by the vulnerable application.”…

Read More

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from Acronis, Booz Allen Hamilton, cside, Descope, JumpCloud, MIND, Noction, Obsidian Security, Rubrik, SEON, SpyCloud, Tenable, Tosi and Vectra AI. Acronis Archival Storage brings compliance-ready, S3-compatible cold storage to MSPs Acronis announced the launch of Acronis Archival Storage, a long-term, compliant, and cost-efficient data storage and protection solution designed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and their small-to-medium business (SMBs) customers. With Acronis Archival Storage, users can retain large amounts of data securely, affordably, and with fast accessibility when it matters most. JumpCloud introduces AI features to…

Read More

Most users tend to associate and purchase YouTube Premium to remove ads on the popular platform. However, there are a few other features Google locks behind that paywall as well. Most notably – background playback. That said, for quite some time now, crafty developers and their respective users have enjoyed ways of getting the feature for free. The simplest approach was to use a third-party browser like Samsung Internet, Brave or Vivaldi (to name a few) to play content in the background. After an avalanche of user reports over the past few days, Google has finally confirmed that it is…

Read More

OpenAI has confirmed that it’s retiring ChatGPT’s most popular model, called GPT-4o, and several other models, including GPT-5 Instant, GPT-5 Thinking, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini. In a support document, OpenAI confirmed that it made the ultimate decision to retire GPT-4o after GPT 5.2 started to live up to expectations. “On February 13, 2026, alongside the previously announced retirement⁠ of GPT-5 (Instant and Thinking), we will retire GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini from ChatGPT. In the API, there are no changes at this time,” OpenAI said in a statement. GPT-4o is a special model because it felt more…

Read More

Why you can trust Android Central Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. When I learned that Motorola was making a new smartwatch, I was cautiously optimistic. The Moto Watch isn’t running Wear OS, meaning we still don’t have a true Moto 360 successor, but the company’s partnership with Polar seemed promising, as Polar makes some impressive fitness smartwatches. Surely Motorola would make the best use of this to turn this relatively affordable smartwatch into something worth picking up?Unfortunately, my time…

Read More

The recent attack on Poland’s power grid, believed to have been conducted by Russian threat actors, targeted communication and control systems across roughly 30 sites and in some cases resulted in permanent industrial control system (ICS) damage, according to industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos. In a report published this week, the security firm, which has been involved in responding to the incident, described it as the first major operation specifically targeting distributed energy resources (DER). The attackers gained access to operational technology (OT) systems at combined heat and power (CHP) plants and renewable energy dispatch centers for wind and solar facilities,…

Read More

Apple refreshes certificates to maintain iMessage, FaceTime, and account functionality past 2027Updates do not include new features or traditional security fixesiOS 16 updates did not renew certificates, leaving some users uncertainApple has unexpectedly released updates for some versions of iOS which are more than 10 years old, including iOS 12 and iOS 15.These updates do not add new features or fix security flaws in the traditional sense, instead, they update the security certificates that allow iMessage, FaceTime, and Apple account sign-ins to continue functioning past January 2027.A similar update was also released for iOS 18.7.4, which is unsurprising given that…

Read More