Taking a flight on the best Boeing 757
Checking out Honeywell's airplane test bed, and Inmarsat's new satellite Internet service.
View ArticleSpaceX tries again to lift its heaviest payload ever to geostationary orbit
After the Intelsat 35e mission, SpaceX will slow its roll for about a month.
View ArticleAndroid ‘forensic’ app pulled from Google Play after vulnerability report
MITM, remote code execution If you use an app called eVestigator, billed as checking Android phones for compromise, delete it.…
View ArticleSBU claims Russia was behind NotPetya
So does ESET, which reckons the malware spread better than its authors expected Ukraine's security service, which last week called on international help to trace the “NotPetyardquo; outbreak, has upped...
View ArticleMedicare data leaks, but who was breached?
We care about your privacy... Medicare numbers in Australia became a lot less useful as a proof-of-identity, with the Australian Federal Police investigating how an unknown number of records ended up...
View ArticleGnuPG crypto library cracked, look for patches
Boffins bust libgcrypt via side-channel Linux users need to check out their distributions to see if a nasty bug in libgcrypt20 has been patched.…
View ArticleFor all the chaos it sows, fewer than 1% of threats are actually ransomware
It does a pretty good job of ruining everything Ransomware dominated the threat landscape last year even though file-encrypting nasties made up less than one in a hundred examples of different Windows...
View ArticleThe latest cyber attacks show why the cloud is safer
Computer systems from the Ukraine to the United States were affected last week by the Petya cyber attack.Itrsquo;s similar to the recent WannaCry ransomware attack last month.The WannaCry ransomware...
View ArticleGet started with the Windows Subsystem for Linux
Yesterday, I sat in a coffeeshop and installed two Linux distributions on my Windows development PC.They werenrsquo;t virtual machines or dual-boot systems, and I didnrsquo;t have to go through the...
View ArticleAutomobile Association under fire for car-crash handling of data breach
Motoring org denies sensitive information was exposed Breakdown and car insurance outfit AA has been scolded for its handling of a data breach that spilled customer email addresses and partial credit...
View ArticleThe first self-driving grocery delivery van
I got to experience the disruption of autonomous deliveries first-hand in Greenwich.
View ArticleNext iPhone might use 3D face-scanning tech instead of TouchID
Face-scanning tech is faster, more secure, less prone to annoyingly not working when you really need to log into your iPhone right now dammit.
View ArticleMinister says Oz Medicare breach was crims, not hackers
Well, that's all right then The fallout from Australia's Medicare card number leak continued yesterday afternoon, with Minister for Human Services Alan Tudge trying unsuccessfully to hose down the...
View ArticleUkraine authorities raid M.E. Docs in NotPetya investigation
Equipment seized to head off new attack, Cyberpolice says There's a new wrinkle to the NotPetya story: authorities in the Ukraine have seized equipment from M.E.Docs, the online accounting firm...
View ArticleIt’s an important ID, so why isn’t the Medicare card chipped?
Vulture South talks to Lockstep's Steve Wilson about privacy, identity, and loose APIs Australia's Medicare data leak certainly won't be the last such, so why are so many expressions of digital...
View ArticleNeanderthal DNA suggests yet another wave of human migration out of Africa
Evidence for this migration is scant, but growing.
View Article23% off FitBit Aria WiFi Smart Scale – Deal Alert
Fitbit's Aria WiFi smart scale is a great add-on for anyone using a Fitbit to track progress towards their fitness goals.The current 23% discount shaves a solid $30 off its regular $129.95 list price,...
View ArticleHeavily armed police raid company that seeded last week’s NotPetya outbreak
Operation that hit thousands was “thoroughly well-planned and well-executed.”
View ArticleCreate a user called ‘0day’, get bonus root privs – thanks, Systemd!
It's not a bug, it's a feature To obtain root privileges on a Linux distribution that utilizes systemd for initialization, start with an invalid user name in the systemd.unit file.…
View ArticleCreate a user like ‘0day’, get bonus root privs – thanks, Systemd!
It's not a bug, it's a feature...? To obtain root privileges on a Linux distribution that utilizes systemd for initialization, start with an invalid user name in the systemd.unit file.…
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