Google says it won’t Google jurors in upcoming Oracle API copyright trial
Shawn Collins It was just days ago when the federal judge presiding over the upcoming Oracle v.Google API copyright trial said he was concerned that the tech giants were already preparing for a...
View ArticleThere are ways the FBI can crack the iPhone PIN without Apple doing it for them
Not that kind of crack.Geoff Parsons Apple's encryption battle Feds: New judge must force iPhone unlock, overturning ruling that favored Apple Amazon will restore Fire OS‘ encryption support in the...
View ArticleSupreme Court won’t tinker with ruling giving copyright to the Batmobile
Chad HorwedelThe US Supreme Court is letting stand a lower court ruling that the Batmobile is protected by copyright.The high court's move is a blow to Gotham Garage, the maker of Batmobile replica...
View ArticleTenable Helps Customers Comply With NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Fresh off a $250M round of funding, Tenable CEO Ron Gula discusses how his company's technology is evolving and adding new options to its platform. Tenable CEO Ron Gula is in an enviable position.The...
View ArticleSentry MBA Uses Credential Stuffing to Hack Sites
Shape Security warns of the growing threat of the hacking tool, which is able to bypass many modern IT defenses. Cyber-attackers use a lot of different tools, but one in particular is becoming...
View ArticlePatent battle over LARPer’s foam arrows heats up
A collection of foam-tipped weapons used for LARPing.Two rivals in the unusual business of selling foam arrows have failed to settle their dispute over patents and trademarks, and the lawsuit between...
View ArticleHeartless hackers break into Florida cancer clinic network – 2.2 million...
Oncology patients' diagnoses, treatment details slurped US cancer clinic 21st Century Oncology has admitted that a breach on its systems may have exposed private information on 2.2 million patients and...
View ArticleCothority to Apple: Let’s make secret backdoors impossible
Tim EllisCothority, a new software project designed to make secret backdoored software updates nearly impossible, is offering to help Apple ensure that any secret court orders to backdoor its software...
View ArticleMan accused of jamming passengers’ cell phones on Chicago subway
Undercover officers have arrested a 63-year-old Chicago man on accusations that he used a handheld jamming device to disrupt mobile phone service on the subway. Enlarge / Photo from Reddit of the...
View ArticleDDoS protection biz Incapsula knackers its customers’ websites
An unwelcome PITSTOP Glitches at distributed denial-of-service mitigation biz Incapsula left the websites it defends offline twice on Thursday. Incapsula blamed "connectivity issues" for the global...
View ArticleA typo costs bank hackers nearly $1B
Making a typo in a tweet that then gets retweeted is bad enough, but imagine how dumb these hackers feel. Reuters reports that hackers broke into Bangladesh's central bank in February and started...
View ArticleDam you! Justice Dept. to indict Iranians for probing flood control network
The gate to the Bowman Avenue Dam facility in Rye Brook, NY is locked, but the cellular modem used for its controls wasn't.Google In 2013, someone gained access to the operations center for the Bowman...
View ArticleOne of the greatest art heists of our time was actually a data hack
An image taken from the Nefertiti Hack 3-D scan, whose provenance is now more mysterious than ever.Nefertiti Hack Last month, two artists grabbed headlines across the world by announcing that they had...
View ArticleFeds tell court: Apple ‘deliberately raised technological barriers’ to thwart...
US DoJ files fresh objections to iGiant's refusal to cooperate The US Department of Justice has filed fresh claims against Apple in the ongoing battle over whether the FBI can force the iGiant to help...
View ArticleReport: U.S. to Blame Iranian Hackers for NY Dam Cyber Attack
It's just the latest "name and shame" effort by the U.S. to publicly denounce (and indict) foreign hackers. The Justice Department is allegedly working on an indictment for Iranian hackers who...
View Article0day remote code exec holes in mobile modems can read SMS and HTTP
Or that mobile USB dongle could let an attacker take over your PC! Hooray! Nullcon Russian security tester Timur Yunusov has found critical vulnerabilities in routers and 3G and 4G modems from Huawei,...
View ArticleHardsploit: The handy hacker help for hapless hopeful hardware hacks
Like Nessus, for Things.Because there's password gold in them thar chips Nullcon Penetration testers Julien Moinard and Gwénolé Audic have produced a security testing framework to automate...
View ArticleJustice Department slams Apple's 'corrosive' rhetoric in its latest court filing
In a conference call Thursday afternoon, Apple's SVP and chief legal counsel Bruce Sewell said, "The tone of the brief reads like an indictment," and in 30 years he's never seen a brief trying so hard...
View ArticleIObit Malware Fighter 4 Pro
ByNeil J. Rubenking Many antivirus vendors release new model year editions each fall, just the way the automakers do. Others schedule their new versions independently of the season, waiting until there...
View ArticleThe Best Parental Control Apps for Your Phone
The Internet is a scary place.Trust me, I work there.And if the dangers of cyberspace can rattle an adult, imagine how they might traumatize an innocent child.Installing a parental control tool on your...
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