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Introduced to amuse tourists, the monkeys pose a public health risk, scientists warn.

Now that microcode and patches are starting to ship, a clearer picture is emerging.

Sorry, make that, exiting IT boss The outgoing head of the Defense Information Systems Agency, which handles computer security for the US Department of Defense, has warned a massive cyber-attack is "looming" at the American military's door.…

Customers say PCs and servers reboot a lot after fixes. Meanwhile, AMD’s admitted to Spectre problems Intel’s warned that the fix for its Meltdown and Spectre woes might have made PCs and servers less stable.…

Open source has officially been a thing for 20 years now.

Did anyone notice?No, really.

For something as revolutionary as open source, you’d think it would have changed the way all software is developed, sold, and distributed. Unfortunately for thos...

People once made requests for hybrid cloud because of the perception of flexibility. Now they make multicloud requests, for the same reasons. Multicloud is just part of a cloud architecture that uses more than two clouds, private and/or public. Howe...

Google’s Play Store fails again Researchers have found a batch of over 60 malware-carrying apps in Google's Play Store designed to rob mobile users or show them pornography, all with a kid-friendly theme.…

CES was dominated by smart assistants, but we found diamonds in the rough.

Become the ruler of all you survey Security people talk of an attack surface to describe exposure to malware and hacking.

The bigger the attack surface, the more at risk you are.…

Easy as A, B, CTRL+P Security shortcomings in Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) create a means for miscreants to bypass login credentials on corporate laptops.…

Streaming services and film studios try to stop free access to shows and movies.

It's not like a recall is possible, says chip security expert Analysis Processor security experts – including one cited in the Meltdown paper – are split on whether the resolution of the Spectre vulnerability may need to involve hardware modifications...

Version 1.6 of Elixir, a dynamic functional language that uses Erlang VM, will have improvements for code formatting and compiler diagnostics. The production version should be avaliable in late January.Intended for the development of easily scalable...

Data remains a foundational element of computing. Recently, Hadoop and big data have been a central part of data progression, allowing you to capture data at scale.

But companies now look to the expanding use of cloud computing and machine learning ...

House reps approve bill requiring vuln disclosure reports The US House of Representatives this week approved a bill that, given further legislative and executive branch support, will require the American government to account for its handling of softwa...

Shared hosting oversight bites free SSL/TLS certificate org Let's Encrypt – a SSL/TLS certificate authority run by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) to programmatically provide websites with free certs for their HTTPS websites – on...

A quick catch-up on infosec stuff beyond what we've already reported Roundup The security world is still feeling the aftereffects of last week's CPU design flaw disclosures, which continued to dominate the news this week, even amid the noisy CES jambo...