Watch out for Microsoft Word DDE nasties: Now Freddie Mac menaced
Calm down over KRACK, good ol' Office malware has biz workers in its sights again Malware exploiting Microsoft Word's DDE features to infect computers has been lobbed at US government-backed mortgage...
View ArticleIn 3-1 vote, LA Police Commission approves drones for LAPD
ACLU: new policy “fails to take into account public mistrustrdquo; of police surveillance.
View ArticleMicrosoft never disclosed 2013 hack of secret vulnerability database
Database contained details required to carry out highly advanced software attacks.
View ArticleuBlock Origin ad-blocker knocked for blocking hack attack squawkings
Block all the things! No, wait, not the XSS security alerts Top ad-blocking plugin uBlock Origin has come under fire for being a little too eager in its quest to murder nasty stuff on the internet: it...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Why cloud platforms should invest in the promise of...
According to the 2017 Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey, Python has emerged as the language developers want to use more than any other this year for building data-intensive projects, which can...
View ArticleGmail on iOS might get what Android already had—third-party email support
Google invited users to test the new feature on iOS 10 or higher.
View ArticleDomino’s Pizza delivers user details to spammers
I’ll have a garlic bread, a Supreme and a side of privacy breach by slack partners Domino's Pizza's Australian outpost has blamed a partner for a security breach, after angry customers went online...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Do you know the one secret to successful digital...
Devops and cloud are the inescapable words of the decade for IT professionals, and with good reason: making the shift to digitally transform under these models can result in a business-defining...
View ArticleFirst floating wind farm, built by offshore oil company, delivers electricity
Anchored, floating turbines allow offshore wind installations in deep waters.
View ArticleNew neural network teaches itself Go, spanks the pros
This time, the Go-playing algorithm didnrsquo;t need any human players to help it.
View ArticleGoogle Play apps with as many as 2.6m downloads added devices to botnet
Your periodic reminder: Google is chronically unable to detect untrustworthy apps.
View ArticleJudge shocked to learn NYPD’s evidence database has no backup
All data would be lost if PETSrsquo; DB2 server went down or data corrupted.
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Maturing devops practices: what you don’t yet know
Striving to be an agile shop that is successful in devops isn’t a new goal for most organizations.All teams want to deliver better apps faster.Even if this isn’t a new objective, however, and teams...
View ArticleWhat’s new in Microsoft .Net Framework 4.7.1
With Microsoft’s release of .Net Framework 4.7.1 this week, the development platform gains critical improvements to garbage collection, security, and application configuration. To boost memory...
View ArticleNew cloud-friendly Lightroom has 1TB of photo storage, same UI across desktop...
For the time being, the desktop-based Lightroom Classic will continue to be developed.
View ArticleActivision’s patented method to drive microtransactions with matchmaking
Unused system could push newbies to "emulate the marquee player" in pairings.
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: 5 key observations on cloud-native security
While the term “cloud” used to be the main topic of discussion in the technology industry, “cloud-native” is taking its place—and with it, “cloud-native security.” There are many elements to keep in...
View ArticleYou’re doing open source wrong, Microsoft tsk-tsk-tsks at Google: Chrome...
Redmond wags its finger A few weeks ago, Google paid Microsoft $7,500 after Redmond's security gurus found, exploited and reported a vulnerability in the Chrome browser – a flaw that would allow...
View ArticleNintendo Switch tiptoes toward letting users back up their data
Latest system update also enables video capture for... four games. Yes, four.
View ArticleSonos One review: A better sounding smart speaker
Sonos may have undercut Apple's HomePod before it even launches.
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