BrandPost: Wonder What’s in that Hot Dog? Data Analytics Has Your Answer
Could data analytics make for a safer, more transparent food supply? Maria Fernandez Guajardo, VP of Products at Clear Labs, answered that question with an unequivocal “Yes!” when she presented at the...
View ArticleVirus (cough, cough, Petya) goes postal at FedEx, shares halted
TNT Express systems blown up by, er, yeah, you get the idea FedEx has suspended trading of its shares on the New York stock exchange after admitting that its subsidiary TNT Express has been hit by "an...
View ArticleKaspersky Lab US staff grilled by Feds in nighttime swoop
Also, update your Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server – before you get hacked Several employees of Russian security vendor Kaspersky Lab got an unpleasant surprise on Tuesday night when FBI agents popped...
View ArticleAmerica throws down gauntlet: Accept extra security checks or don’t carry...
Peeps flying into US face 'enhanced screening' Folks flying into America must endure extra security checks if they want to bring their laptops into airplane cabins.In a press conference on Wednesday,...
View ArticleDon’t panic, but Linux’s Systemd can be pwned via an evil DNS query
PS, Alpine users, you need to get patching, too – for other reasons Systemd, the Linux world's favorite init monolith, can be potentially crashed or hijacked by malicious DNS servers. Patches are...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: What can be uncovered when big data meets the...
As defined by the World Economic Forum (WEF), “Blockchain technology allows parties to transfer assets to each other in a secure way without intermediaries.It enables transparency, immutable records,...
View ArticleEdgar Wright’s new film Baby Driver is the perfect antidote to the Fast and...
Visceral action, witty dialogue, and more old iPods than you've seen in years.
View ArticleSecurity bug bounty programs are a nice little earner for hackers
Safe to assume the money will keep getting better Some security-conscious organizations award hackers up to $900,000 a year, according to what's touted as the biggest bug bounty industry report to date.…
View ArticleSpies do spying, part 97: The CIA has a tool to track targets via Wi-Fi
Thanks, WackyLeaks The latest cache of classified intelligence documents dumped online by WikiLeaks includes files describing malware CIA apparently uses to track PCs via Wi‑Fi.…
View ArticleWindows 10 will restrict data access to authorized apps to combat ransomware
But how to protect files from users who have access to those files remains tricky.
View ArticleShadow Brokers hike prices for stolen NSA exploits, threaten to out ex-Uncle...
Also starts mysterious VIP service for $130,000 The Shadow Brokers is once again trying to sell yet more stolen NSA cyber-weapons, raising the asking price in the process.And the gang has threatened to...
View ArticleIt’s the thought that counts: Illinois emits ‘no location stalking’ law
No phone tracking without asking for permission that you probably already granted The US state of Illinois is about to pass a law that makes it illegal to track a phone's location without the owner's...
View ArticleStarCraft Remastered devs unveil price, explain how much is being rebuilt
Dev team admits losing old code and assets, needing to “eyeball everything.”
View ArticleManagement bug can crash Cisco IOS, IOSnbsp;XE
Nine SNMP MIBs vulnerable Cisco's been caught out by the venerable Simple Network Management Protocol, turning up nine bugs in IOS and IOSnbsp;XE that appear in all SNMP versions.…
View ArticleUber: Discovery shows Waymo has “zero evidence,” plays blame game
New documents foreshadow a trial's key question: What did Uber know?
View ArticleEuropol, FBI, UK’s NCA ride out to Ukraine’s cavalry call
Security service calls NotPetya an 'act of cyberterrorism' The Ukraine, hardest hit by this week's “NotPetyardquo; ransomware/havoc-ware, has called for help from Europol, the FBI, and England's...
View ArticleGitHub flub spaffs 8Tracks database, 18 million accounts leaked
Passwords were salted, so there's some comfort A staffer of social music streaming site 8Tracks is having a really bad day: a bit of GitHub carelessness has leaked 18 million user accounts.…
View ArticleNotPetya developers obtained NSA exploits weeks before their public leak
Evidence ties people behind massive malware attack to mysterious Shadow Brokers group.
View ArticleTrump to sign executive order creating a national space council
The council is needed to modernize the nation's approach to spaceflight.
View ArticleIn attempt to achieve YouTube stardom, woman accidentally kills her boyfriend
According to Pedro Ruiz' aunt, her late nephew told her: "We want to get famous."
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