Bloke takes over every .io domain by snapping up crucial name servers
Want to control over 270,000 websites? That'll be $96 and a handover cockup, please A blunder during a handover of the .io registry allowed a security researcher to potentially take control of more...
View ArticleTwo-factor FAIL: Chap gets pwned after ‘ATT falls for hacker tricks’
This is getting stupid now – time to dump SMS and switch to code-generating apps or tokens A software developer says a thief siphoned cash from his PayPal account – after a dumbass ATT rep handed...
View ArticleDealmaster: All the best Amazon Prime Day deals going live right now
Live now: Amazon's 30-hour sale for Prime members, continually updated.
View ArticleTrump election commission stops collecting personal voter data—for now
“We request that you hold on submitting any data,” commission tells states.
View ArticleRansomware-slinging support scammers hire local cash mule in Oz
75 year-old chap funnelled more than AU$1m offshore Police in the Australian State of Queensland have arrested a man they say set up bank accounts to collect ransoms from victims of tech support scams,...
View ArticleSamba slip-up smackdown: HPE stops NonStop Server bugs
If SambaCry escaped your notice in June, get busy HPE NonStop users running Samba need to get busy applying workarounds to a pair of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities.…
View ArticleCloud Foundry had a privilege escalation bug
Mitigate if you must, patch if you can Open source devops platform Cloud Foundry has disclosed a potentially nasty bug in its User Account and Authentication server software.…
View ArticleTwo energy powerhouses join together to make big, grid-tied batteries
Companies are betting storage will play a major part in a world with more renewables.
View ArticleMicrosoft will help ISPs bring wireless Internet to 12 US states
Microsoft invests in white space networks, offers royalty-free access to patents.
View ArticleRussia, China vow to kill off VPNs, Tor browser
New laws needed because today's censorship not good enough, apparently Russia and China are banning the use of virtual private networks, as their governments assert ever greater control over what...
View ArticleATT joins net neutrality protestmdash;despite suing to block neutrality rules
ATT joins net neutrality “Day of Actionrdquo; but wants to overturn Title II rules.
View ArticleIt’s July 2017 – and your expensive HoloLens can be pwned over Wi-Fi
Augmented Reality bites. Plus: Update Windows boxes, Flash ASAP Patch Tuesday Microsoft's HoloLens may only be in the hands of developers, but that hasn't stopped researchers from finding major...
View ArticleKaspersky under scrutiny after Bloomberg story claims close links to FSB
CEO: “This story is BS brewed on political agenda.”
View ArticleGoogle Pixel 2 leak shows slimmer bezels, huge camera lens, squeezable sides
Googlersquo;s LG-built smartphone looks a lot like the LG G6.
View ArticleDid you hear the one about a monkey suing a photographer for infringement?
“Monkey see, monkey sue is not good law.”
View ArticleNews industry decries Facebook’s “digital duopoly,” wants government help
Newspapers “forced to surrender their contentrdquo; want to team up and negotiate.
View ArticleUncle Sam says ‘nyet’ to Kaspersky amid fresh claims of Russian ties
Security biz maintains it has no 'inappropriate ties' with Kremlin as software blocked by officials Kaspersky Lab is facing new restrictions from the US government to go along with a fresh round of...
View ArticleTrump Hotels left orange faced: Hackers plunder systems for credit cards
Guests' names, possibly email and home addresses viewed, too, via Sabre intrusion Trump Hotels has become the latest accommodation group to put its hands up as a user of the compromised Sabre SynXis...
View ArticleFBI didn’t need warrant for stingray in attempted murder case, DOJ says
Prosecutors: “signals emitted from a phone arehellip; not by their nature private.”
View Article14 MEEELLION Verizon subscribers’ details leak from crappily configured AWS...
US telco giant insists only infosec bods saw the info Updated Another day, another leaky Amazon S3 bucket.This time, one that exposed account records for roughly 14 million Verizon customers to anyone...
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