Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster is not a real religion, court rules
aaditya sood Inmate Stephen Cavanaugh A Nebraska inmate who has professed his allegiance to the divine Flying Spaghetti Monster lost his bid demanding that prison officials accommodate his...
View ArticleCritical VMware bug needs patching ASAP
Oh irony of ironies: The vSphere web client needs a fix just as HTML5 versions emerge Patch now, vAdmins: that's the message from VMware after it revealed a "critical security issue in the VMware...
View ArticleBlue Coat Integrating Elastica Technology to Expand Cloud Security
Blue Coat integrates cloud access security broker technology it gained from its purchase of Elastica with its gateway. Last November, Blue Coat announced the $280 million acquisition of cloud access...
View ArticleAfter “pepper spray incident,” UC Davis spent $175,000 to boost image online
Doctor Popular The University of California, Davis has spent at least $175,000 to hire companies that would try to “expedite the eradication of references to the pepper spray incident in search...
View ArticlePartners, Security Experts Worry New Encryption Bill Will Harm Business
Solution providers and security experts say they are worried a new bill designed to give law enforcement "backdoor" access into encryption technologies will seriously hurt their businesses --...
View ArticleApple stops patching QuickTime for Windows despite 2 active vulnerabilities
If your Windows computer is running Apple's QuickTime media player, now would be a good time to uninstall it. The Windows app hasn't received an update since January, and security researchers from...
View ArticleWhat’s this about Canada reading your BlackBerry texts?
What we knew in 2010, 2012 and 2014 we still know in 2016 Reg Water Cooler – What's this about the Canadian Mounties hacking millions of BlackBerry messages or some crazy moose doodie like that? It's...
View ArticleMore than 45,000 sign petition against U.S. encryption-breaking bill
More than 45,000 people have signed a petition against proposed U.S. legislation that would require tech companies to break into their users' encrypted data when ordered to by a judge. The proposal,...
View ArticleUninstall QuickTime for Windows now!
Apple has failed to warn its customers, but Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative issued a call to action and last night the US-CERT team confirmed: If you have QuickTime on your Windows system, uninstall...
View ArticleReport: Canadian Police Have BlackBerry Encryption Key
The key only works on consumer devices, not BlackBerry Enterprise Service devices, according to reports. If the FBI needs help cracking a BlackBerry handset, they should call the Royal Canadian...
View ArticleApple Ends QuickTime for Windows Support Despite Zero-Day Risks
Windows users are left stranded and vulnerable from "true" zero-day vulnerabilities, exploits for which there is no patch and none coming either. Typically, software vendors provide users with some...
View ArticleLizard Squad back to blast Blizzard’s gaming hub
Wants props for World of Warcraft attack too Lizard Squad has hit gaming firm Blizzard’s servers with a massive DDoS attack. Blizzard's Battle.net services were left intermittently unavailable as a...
View ArticleOut-of-date apps put 3 million servers at risk of crypto ransomware infections
Dr F.Eugene Hester, U.S.Fish and Wildlife ServiceMore than 3 million Internet-accessible servers are at risk of being infected with crypto ransomware because they're running vulnerable software,...
View ArticleSwedish air controllers debunk cyber attack disruption theory
Solar storms blamed for outage Sweden's civil aviation administration (LFV) has concluded that radar disruptions that affected services in Stockholm and Malmö last November were down to the effects of...
View ArticleWebroot SecureAnywhere AntiVirus (2016)
By Neil J. Rubenking Most people have at least a vague idea of how an antivirus product works.It calculates some kind of fingerprint of a file, checks that against its list of bad files, and raises...
View ArticleSan Francisco wants to collect over $3.3M each year from Uber, Lyft drivers
Sergio Ruiz Attention, Uber and Lyft drivers! San Francisco wants to rake in money from you. On Friday, the treasurer for the City and County of San Francisco announced that he had begun mailing out...
View ArticleBeware of Fraudsters as Tax Day Nears
As millions of Americans rush to file their tax returns by the April 18 deadline, opportunistic hackers are rushing to attack. Tax filing-related fraud schemes are on the rise this year, with attackers...
View ArticleRunning QuickTime on Windows? Uninstall Now
Using this unsupported software will leave your machine more susceptible to viruses and other security threats. Heads up, Windows users: If you have Apple's QuickTime media player on your machine, you...
View ArticleFeds to Car Makers: Make Sure You're Ready to Battle Hackers
"We can't play catch up.Assume the worst" about car hacking, a DOJ official warned recently. If 2015 was the year that car hacking became a media sensation, then 2016 is the year it becomes a...
View ArticleObama supports cable box competition and—surprise—cable lobby is angry
President Obama and FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.White House President Obama today pledged support for the Federal Communications Commission effort to give cable TV customers a greater choice of set-top...
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