Car-share biz GoGet became data share biz after 2017 hack attack
Kept heist secret until cops cuffed bloke. Now suggests – gulp – super-pwned Equifax for the afflicted Australian car sharing company GoGet today admitted to a June 2017 data breach that includes...
View ArticleDrug companies submerged WV in opioids: One town of 3,000 got 21 million pills
The state has the highest rate of overdose deaths in the country.
View ArticleUnsanitary Firefox gets fix for critical HTML-handling hijack flaw
Versions 56 through 58 need patching, pronto Mozilla has patched a nasty security bug in Firefox, affecting versions 56, 57 and 58, and their point updates.…
View ArticleI’ll torpedo Tor weirdos, US AG storms: Feds have ‘already infiltrated’...
Sessions sets up task force for dopes' dope dope crack down The US Attorney General has set up a task force of FBI agents and tech nerds to further smoke out online peddlers of illegal opioids.…
View ArticleTo hack Australia and learn its secrets, buy second-hand furniture
Secret cabinet documents found in filing cabinet sold because someone lost the key The Australian government has suffered what must as one of the most ridiculously embarrassing security breach in its...
View ArticleResilient plc granted significant patent enabling multiple GSM numbers on a...
London, 31st January 2018 - Resilient plc today announced that it has been granted a patent by the UK Intellectual Property Office for techniques used within its leading mobile call recording and BYOD...
View ArticleTerror law expert to UK.gov: Why backdoors when there’s so much other data to...
We leave huge digital paper trails, but biz can still do more End-to-end encryption is a desirable fact of life that governments should stop trying to break, especially as there's plenty more data to...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: The best workloads for containers: All of them...
I was recently asked which types of applications are best suited for containers. My response: All of them.With few exceptions—and I mean very few exceptions—developers can use containers for every...
View ArticleBrandPost: Relational Database Services – Not Quite as Simple as They Seem
Of all of the various ways in which companies can leverage cloud computing, establishing a cloud-based relational database would seem to be among the most straightforward. While companies may choose...
View ArticleIoT garage opener now more open, a year after customer firestorm
Founder says Ars "reaffirmed consumers' concerns about true ownership of IoT devices.”
View ArticleTesla continues to press ahead for direct sales in Nebraska, Wisconsin
Tesla lawyer: "The law shouldn't be used to block new companies."
View ArticleNew click-to-hack tool: One script to exploit them all and in the darkness...
Auto-pwn code glues device search engine Shodan to Metasploit weapons cache Python code has emerged that automatically searches for vulnerable devices online using Shodan.io – and then uses...
View ArticleWindows Defender will strap scareware to its ass-kicking machine
Doomed: Junkware claiming it can rid PCs of viruses, clean up the Registry, etc Microsoft will tighten the screws on scummy developers who use scare tactics to frighten people – particularly non-tech...
View ArticleAre we already warmer than any time since the Ice Age ended?
New record of past climate paints a slightly different picture.
View ArticleGood news, everyone: Ransomware declining. Bad news: Miscreants are turning...
Screw asking for digi-coins. Just craft 'em on victims' computers For the past few years, ransomware has been a bane of computer users.These software nasties infect PCs, scramble files, and demand...
View ArticleNintendo confirms Mario Kart Tour, launch window for Switch Online service
Investor call also reaffirmed plans for 3D-animated Super Mario film, other details.
View ArticleWho can save us? It’s 2018 and some email is still sent as cleartext
Out of the phone booth comes the IETF in lycra - with the power of STANDARDS! The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has emitted another small advance in its program to protect as much of the...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Driving innovation by increasing developer...
Think about the last time you had to collaborate with another team at your company—does it bring back feelings of anxiety and stress?I remember a time at a previous company where I found a bug that...
View ArticleRed Dead Redemption 2 pushed back to October
Latest delay could shake up the rest of the year's holiday lineup.
View ArticleMicrosoft extends Windows 10 support period, but makes cuts to Office 2019
The moves are supposed to make it easier to migrate to the Semi Annual release Channel.
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