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Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re looking at three signs that your device may be infected with crypto malware. Has your computer been acting strange lately? Has the performance tanked out of nowhere, and are you experiencing overheating issues even though you’re not running any particularly demanding tasks at the moment?

This policy setting determines if RPC clients authenticate with the Endpoint Mapper Service when their call includes authentication data. The Endpoint Mapper Service on Windows NT4 (all service packs) is unable to process authentication data provided in this manner. Disabling this policy means RPC clients won’t authenticate with the Endpoint Mapper Service, but they can still communicate with it on Windows NT4 Server. The recommended state for this setting is: Enabled.

We are more, but we are the same. Ekran System Inc. is happy to announce that our company changes its name from Ekran System to Syteca. Following over a decade of continuous development and growth, we see that it’s now the time to expand our product and adjust its perception accordingly. In October 2024, we will take the first steps of transforming into Syteca by releasing a significant expansion of our core platform and changing our website domain from ekransystem.com to syteca.com.

Are you looking to try a new service to transfer large files of up to 50GB? Then there’s a new player in the file-sharing market that may interest you — Rakuten Drive. In February 2024, Rakuten announced the commercial launch of Rakuten Drive, a file storage cloud service based in Japan. Rakuten Drive allows individuals and enterprises to send large files with customized access controls, store, and edit Microsoft documents.

Real-world malware 100% protection with zero false positives Elastic Security has achieved remarkable results in the recent AV-Comparatives Malware Protection Test, with a protection rate of 100% and no false positives against real-world malware samples. This independent assessment underscores our commitment to providing world-class malware protection, with zero false positives and zero user impact.

Research has revealed that since 2021 there has been a material increase in QR code phishing (or ‘quishing’), as cybercriminals continue to exploit available technology and their widespread familiarity. The once rare payload is nearly fourteen times more common in 2024 than it was three years ago, accounting for only 0.8% of attacks in 2021. This figure jumped to 1.4% in 2022, a staggering 12.4% in 2023, and has plateaued at 10.8% from January to March 2024.

The 2024 Red Hat Summit in Denver was a whirlwind of innovation, collaboration, and networking. The show kicked off with a great turnout for the Community and Red Hat OpenShift Days. The focus here was on Case Studies from and by End Users with production deployments of OpenShift sharing their use cases, insights into their workloads and lessons learned along the way.

On May 27, 2024, Check Point released hot fixes for an information disclosure vulnerability being leveraged by threat actors to target Check Point VPNs. This vulnerability was labeled as CVE-2024-24919 and is rated as high severity, as a remote threat actor can exploit the vulnerability to access information on Gateways connected to the Internet, with IPSec VPN, Remote Access VPN or Mobile Access enabled.

Eleven years ago, the White House issued Executive Order 13636, which tasked the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with the creation of a cybersecurity framework (CSF) that would help better protect the nation’s critical infrastructure.