Florida man’s latest worry: Killer herpes from wild monkeys
Introduced to amuse tourists, the monkeys pose a public health risk, scientists warn.
View ArticleHere’s how, and why, the Spectre and Meltdown patches will hurt performance
Now that microcode and patches are starting to ship, a clearer picture is emerging.
View ArticleBrace yourselves for the ‘terabyte (sic) of death’, warns US army IT boss
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...
View ArticleIntelrsquo;s Meltdown fix freaked out some Broadwells, Haswells
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...
View Article20 years on, open source hasn’t changed the world as promised
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...
View ArticleDon’t fall for the ‘pluggable cloud’ siren call
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...
View Article‘Mummy, what’s felching?’ Tot gets smut served by Android app
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...
View ArticleThe best PCs, gadgets, and wearables of CES 2018
CES was dominated by smart assistants, but we found diamonds in the rough.
View ArticleData protection is best managed from the centre
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.…
View ArticleIntel AMT security locks bypassed – research
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.…
View ArticleNetflix, Amazon, and major studios sue maker of “free TV” box
Streaming services and film studios try to stop free access to shows and movies.
View ArticleBoffins split on whether Spectre fix needs tweaked hardware
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...
View ArticleWhat’s new in the Erlang VM-based Elixir language
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...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Dawn of intelligent applications
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...
View ArticleFeds may have to explain knowledge of security holes – if draft law comes...
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...
View ArticleLet’s Encrypt plugs hole that let miscreants grab HTTPS web certs for...
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...
View ArticleIntel puts security on the todo list, Tavis topples torrent tool, and more
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...
View ArticleDid Twitter engineers just admit to shadow-banning conservatives? Nope
A engineer's plan to "ban a way of talking" didn't refer to conservatives.
View ArticleThe Usenet Deep Space 9 recapper that helped inspire modern TV criticism
If you watched DS9 and lived on the Internet in the ‘90s, you likely read Tim Lynch.
View ArticleThe detailed toys and rare collectibles that keep watch over our home offices
Including what one admittedly single Ars editor dubs his "forever alone" shelf.
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