Month: May 2021

Acer Announces Another Tsunami of Hardware Products

At its virtual 2021 event today, Acer announced new Concept3D, Predator, Chromebook, Swift, and TravelMate hardware products. There’s a lot to unpack here, so rather than regurgitating everything that Acer announced, I will instead point you at the 2021 website and point out what I feel …

Mexico walls off national lottery sites after ransomware DDoS threat

Access to Mexico’s Lotería Nacional and Pronósticos lottery websites are now blocked to IP addresses outside of Mexico after a ransomware gang threatened to perform denial of service attacks. Lotería Nacional is the government-run national lottery system of Mexico, operating under Mexico’s Ministry of Finance. Pronósticos …

Mozilla: Update Firefox to avoid Netflix, Hulu streaming issues

Mozilla advises Firefox users to update to the latest released version to avoid experiencing video streaming issues after Google updates the Widevine digital rights management (DRM) on May 31. The Firefox web browser uses the Widevine plugin to play DRM-protected videos streamed via Netflix, Amazon Prime, …