apple.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader shares a report: Movie studios are considering whether to ignore the objections of cinema chains and forge ahead with a plan to offer digital rentals of films mere weeks after they appear in theaters, according to people familiar with the matter. Some of the biggest proponents...
schneier.com - I have successfully gotten the fake LinkedIn account in my name deleted. To prevent someone from doing this again, I signed up for LinkedIn. This is my first -- and only -- post on that account: My Only LinkedIn Post (Yes, Really) Welcome to my LinkedIn page. It looks empty because I'm never here...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - <b>The ISBuzz Post</b>: This Post It’s 2017: Do You Know Where Your Telecommuting Security Policy Is? appeared first on Information Security Buzz. The idea of working remotely is nothing new — businesses have increasingly allowed employees to telecommute over the last two decades, with some com...
blog.knowbe4.com - Earlier in August, one of the worlds largest cable manufacturers Leoni AG publicly confessed that it had fallen victim to a classic CEO Fraud attack that has cost the company a whopping 44 million dollars. Following two weeks of intensive investigations, new details surfaced and the thieves turne...
it.slashdot.org - New submitter joshtops writes: A developer accidentally three-month of his work. In a post, he described his experience, "I had just downloaded VScode as an alternative and I was just playing with the source control option, seeing how it wanted to stage -- five thousand files -- I clicked discard...
cnet.com - Mark Zuckerberg is taking two months of paternity leave. John Macdougall / AFP/Getty Images Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking two months for paternity leave. He'll split the time between the first month of his new daughter's life, and the month of December, he said in a post F...
blogs.cisco.com - Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we’ve observed between August 11 and August 18. As with previous round-ups, this post isn’t meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we’ve observed by highlighting key behavior characterist...
it.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader shares a report: When staff at CyberKeel investigated email activity at a medium-sized shipping firm, they made a shocking discovery. "Someone had hacked into the systems of the company and planted a small virus," explains co-founder Lars Jensen. "They would then monitor all e...
bleepingcomputer.com - At a recently concluded security conference, experts from an Israeli university have presented new research that describes a possible attack scenario which leverages replacement parts to carry out attacks on smartphones and other smart devices.
nakedsecurity.sophos.com - Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Concern at number of girls studying computing There’s been a lot of focus on how to improve the representation of women in the tech industry in the wake of concerns about the culture at companies such as Uber, and many experts agree t...
cnet.com - The annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance is a great place to find some of the rarest and most interesting cars in the entire world. It's also a place where you can find a mattress mogul's bright fuschia McLaren 720S. McLaren used the Pebble Beach Concours to show off its latest bespoke creati...
cnet.com - Don't pay? Play anyway. Matt Elliott/CNET Spotify has a treat for those who use the music-streaming service for free. Starting now, free users will be able to enjoy and control music through a Google Home device, just as premium subscribers have been able to do since the launch of the home hub,...
krebsonsecurity.com - Last week, security firm DirectDefense came under fire for over-hyping claims that Cb Response, a cybersecurity product sold by competitor Carbon Black, was leaking proprietary from customers who use it. Carbon Black responded that the bug identified by its competitor was a feature, and that cust...
politics.slashdot.org - President Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon left his position on Friday (alternative source) as the newly minted chief of staff John Kelly sought to bring order to a White House riven by infighting and power struggles, more than a dozen news outlets report. Maggie Haberman, reporting f...
ehackingnews.com - A notorious hacking group has compromised the social media account of the Time Warner-owned cable network, HBO, on Wednesday night. The hacking group is called OurMine, and they took whole control of the main HBO’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as their network's shows including Ga...
ehackingnews.com - A publishing firm in India’s national capital, New Delhi has fallen victim to the WannaCry ransomware, that crippled 48,000 computer systems in India and hundreds of thousands of computers across 150 countries back in May. The ransomware attack in May was listed as one of the world's largest cybe...
search.slashdot.org - Microsoft said this week that Bing is "bigger than you think" and provided some numbers that will could be a surprise to many. The company claims that fully one-third of searches in the US are powered by Bing, either directly or through Yahoo or AOL (both of which provide results generated by Mic...
cnet.com - Tesla will occasionally dish out software updates in small bites, offering slight tweaks to existing functions while adding others. This latest update brings parity to all models featuring the newest Autopilot hardware. Tesla's 2017.32 over-the-air software update, which was made available for A...
bleepingcomputer.com - While the week was dominated by small little ransomware creations, we did have some interesting news. First, we have had a resurgence of Locky variants, then a constant stream of GlobeImposter variants variants, and finally the SynCrypt ransomware that utilizes an interesting distribution method.
cnet.com - If you're going to buy a set of wheels for your $260,000 supercar, why not ball out and buy a set of carbon fiber wheels that cost as much as an economy car? Porsche announced Friday that it is the first automaker in the world to offer carbon fiber wheels that use a unique braiding process. The ...
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader shares an article: Next month e-commerce will change forever thanks to Amazon. September 12 marks 20 years since Amazon filed for their 1-Click patent. This means that the patent will expire and the technology behind it will be free to be used by any e-commerce site. Starting ...
cnet.com - "Galaxy Quest" is getting a reboot on Amazon. Getty Images If you've been holding out for that Amazon television series reboot of the 1999 cult movie "Galaxy Quest," there's good news— the show has a new writer, Hollywood Reporter said Friday. Paul Scheer will be taking over from Robert Gordon...
v3.co.uk - Scam disguises SMS message as an iMessage A new scam is running around the iPhone market, trying to take advantage of the less tech-savvy users out there. Of course, if you're on V3 then that's probably not you - but you should still read this and be aware of the fraud. If nothing else, warn y...
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader shares a report: Kit Kat's maker Nestle has been accused of copying Breakout, the 1970s computer game, in a marketing campaign. Atari, the company behind some of the most popular early video games, has filed a suit alleging Nestle knowingly exploited the game's look and feel. ...
v3.co.uk - In its heyday, Locky made its controllers around 20m in the UK alone Security researchers at Malwarebytes have warned about two new variants of Locky, a form of ransomware based on the Dridex banking Trojan, which had been particularly vigorously distributed throughout 2016. Indeed,Locky h...
