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  The new offerings are aimed at helping service providers get the most out of their 5G infrastructure investments. Cisco on Tuesday announced a  series of new software and hardware products  aimed at helping service providers get the most out of their 5G infrastructure investments. The new offerings include new Cloud Services stacks for mobility, residential and content delivery. The introduction of 5G services puts pressure on service providers to prepare for significant increases in mobile traffic, Cisco noted. According to the Cisco Annual Internet Report, there will be nearly 30 billion connected devices by 2023, and nearly half of those will be mobile.  First, Cisco is introducing the Cisco Cloud Services Stack for Mobility, a cloud-based mobile packet core solution. Cisco claims it should speed up the implementation of 4G and 5G mobility services while reducing overall network complexity. It offers a carrier-grade NFVI (Network Functions Virtualization Infrast...

  WordPress site owners who use commercial themes provided by ThemeGrill are advised to update one of the plugins that come installed with these themes in order to patch a critical bug that can let attackers wipe their sites. The vulnerability resides in ThemeGrill Demo Importer, a plugin that ships with themes sold by ThemeGrill, a web development company that sells commercial WordPress themes. The plugin, which is installed on more than 200,000 sites, allows site owners to import demo content inside their ThemeGrill themes so they'll have examples and a starting point on which they can build their own sites. However, in a report published yesterday, WordPress security firm WebARX says that older versions of the ThemeGrill Demo Importer are vulnerable to remote attacks from unauthenticated attackers. Remote hackers can send a specially crafted payload to vulnerable sites and trigger a function inside the plugin.

  Exclusive: FBI alerts US private sectors about attacks aimed at their supply chain software providers. The FBI has sent a security alert to the US private sector about an ongoing hacking campaign that's targeting supply chain software providers has learned. The FBI says hackers are attempting to infect companies with the Kwampirs malware, a remote access trojan (RAT). "Software supply chain companies are believed to be targeted in order to gain access to the victim's strategic partners and/or customers, including entities supporting Industrial Control Systems (ICS) for global energy generation, transmission, and distribution," the FBI said in a private industry notification sent out last week. Besides attacks against supply chain software providers, the FBI said the same malware was also deployed in attacks against companies in the healthcare, energy, and financial sectors. The alert did not identify the targeted software providers, nor any other victims. Instead, t...

  Shortly after Microsoft ended support for Windows 7 some users have started facing a bug that prevents their systems from shutting down. Microsoft Windows 7 has a bug which is preventing users from shutting down their PCs. Multiple Windows 7 users have reported this issue which can only be fixed with some tiresome workarounds. There's also no update on how the bug came up. Windows 7  systems affected by this bug are unable to shut down or reboot their PCs. Whenever users try to turn off their PC a message is flashed saying, "You don't have permission to shut down this computer." According to a report,  Windows 7 users  have been facing this issue for two days now. Some users on  Reddit  have shared workarounds on turning off PCs. One way is to create another admin account, log into that account and log back into the default admin account. Users should be able to shut down or reboot their systems after this. There's another workaround which is supposed to ...

  Newsrooms, political campaigns, and PR agencies panic as they lose access to one of their crucial media monitoring tools. A ransomware infection has brought down  TVEyes , a company that manages a popular platform for monitoring TV and radio news broadcasts, broadly used by newsrooms and PR agencies across the globe. TVEyes CEO David Ives told the ransomware attack took place after midnight on Thursday, January 30. The ransomware hit core server & engineering workstations inside TVEyes' network, primarily in the US, but also some systems located abroad. Ives told they have not yet identified the ransomware strain that infected the company's network, but they have already began recovery efforts. The TVEyes CEO says they don't intend to pay the ransom demand and are currently restoring from backups and rebuilding impacted infrastructure. In the meantime, the company's main product, the TVEyes Media Monitoring Suite (MMS), has been down for the past two days, sources...