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-Most sophisticated- Torii botnet targeting IoT devices

Avast's threat labs team has discovered “the most sophisticated botnet that they have ever seen” and it is targeting IoT devices.

The new IoT malware strain/botnet, that the firm has codenamed Torii, has spread over poorly secured telnet services with the attack stemming from Tor exit nodes.

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According to Avast, the infection chain

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Why VPN adoption will grow and how it&ll keep pace with demandWhy VPN adoption will grow and how it’ll keep pace with demand

A virtual private tunnel, better known as a VPN, is comprised of two components: a VPN client, which is installed on your desktop or mobile device and a VPN Server, which is hosted and managed by your organization or your VPN provider. 

Its main functionality is to create a secure and private tunnel between your device and the VPN server through

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Amazon Fire TV Cube on sale for best price everAmazon Fire TV Cube on sale for best price ever

For just today and tomorrow, Amazon is selling its newest Fire TV device, the Fire TV Cube, for the lowest price it's ever been. And unlike the Amazon Fire TV dongle deal we saw earlier this week, you don't even have to be an Amazon Prime member to get this price.

The cube is a hybrid between a smart speaker and a streaming media player, with

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Amazon Alexa is getting a dedicated 'whisper' modeAmazon Alexa is getting a dedicated 'whisper' mode

Artificially-intelligent digital assistants like Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and the Google Assistant are slowly but surely taking over the world, appearing in myriad devices ranging from phones to speakers to TVs to cars and, as of last week, even kitchen appliances like microwaves.

If you’re a frequent user of any of the above assistants, t

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Here are all of the Easter eggs for Google's 20th anniversary & and the Google DoodleHere are all of the Easter eggs for Google's 20th anniversary & and the Google Doodle

Believe it or not, we've been telling people to 'Google it' for twenty years this month and, in that time, a lot has changed when it comes to how we search for things.

You're no longer trying to find out what in the world "Gettin' Jiggy wit it" means, or pondering "What is Y2K" All of those late 90s search queries have been replaced.

Of course,

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Oculus Connect 5: the 10 best games we saw at Oculus' developer event

Oculus' annual developer event, Oculus Connect, kicked off on September 26 with a huge announcement: Project Santa Cruz is ready for the world. 

The headset, now called Oculus Quest, fills in the middle of the Oculus portfolio. It's not as a powerful as a PC-based headset but with 6DoF tracking it's far more immersive than the 3DoF Go headset

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