Daily Tech News 27 August 2022

• The hackers who attacked Twilio recently also gained access to 93 Authy accounts. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Authy is a two-factor authentication app - like those hardware keys that give you a random number that changes every 30 seconds, but it runs on your phone.
  
  So if this was a targeted attack and those users were already victims of other security breaches, they were rendered defenseless. Still, it they hadn't had Authy, the original security breach would have done that, with much less warning.
  
  
  
• The Twilio hack was part of a broader campaign that affected over 130 companies. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Oddly enough, the group investigating this attack originated in Russia, and the attack itself is suspected to be by a US-based group.

• After four years in development the adventure game Malasombra has been announced - for the NES. (Vintage is the New Old)
  
  Or your preferred emulator, I guess. There must be a good number of working NESes still out there, though the oldest working console I own is a Nintendo 64.
  
  
  
• You can finally edit your tweets. (WCCFTech)
  
  All you have to do is pay Twitter five bucks a month.
  
  I can't blame them for doing this seeing as how I suggested it as the only feature anyone would be willing to pay for. But nor am I going to pay them one thin dime unless and until Elon Musk takes them over and purges their ranks with fire and sword.
  
  
  
• Nvidia's RTX 4060 Ti is expected to match the RTX 3080 in performance. (WCCFTech)
  
  Leaked numbers for the raw hardware performance (in TFLOPs) put it slightly ahead, and synthetic benchmarks slightly behind.
  
  That's not bad at all if pricing and availability are solid. We shall see.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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