ehackingnews.com - In view of increasing cyber attacks on government agencies specially on financial institutions, home minister Rajnath Singh asked agencies on Tuesday to keep check on cyber menace and strengthen surveillance and legal structure for to fight against cyber crimes. On Tuesday a high level meeting...
science.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from BBC: Scientists have engineered an antibody that attacks 99% of HIV strains and can prevent infection in primates. It is built to attack three critical parts of the virus -- making it harder for HIV to resist its effects. The work is a collaboration betwee...
apple.slashdot.org - AmiMoJo shares a report from Mac Rumors: Over the last day or two, several Mac users appear to have been locked out of their machines after hackers signed into their iCloud accounts and initiated a remote lock using Find My iPhone. With access to an iCloud user's username and password, Find My iP...
hardware.slashdot.org - The International Trade Commission has ruled that American companies are being hurt by cheap solar panels from overseas, providing an opportunity for President Donald Trump to tax imports from countries like China. The Verge reports: Today's unanimous decision ruled that the companies SolarWorld...
blog.knowbe4.com - Cyber extortion is a very profitable criminal business model. Now, as if it was inevitable, someone has added a new, perverse twist: demanding naked photographs instead of Bitcoin, apparently so that the victim can be blackmailed multiple times. Researchers at <u>MalwareHunterTeam </u>sp...
linux.slashdot.org - Billly Gates writes: Microsoft and Canonical's relationship is getting closer besides Ubuntu for Windows. Azure will soon be offering more customized Ubuntu containers with a MS optimized kernel. Uname -r will show 4.11.0-1011-azure for Ubuntu cloud based 16.04 LTS. If you want the non MS kernel...
tech.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader writes from a report via Bleeping Computer: The Project Zero team at Google has created a new tool for testing browser DOM engines and has unleashed it on today's top five browsers, finding most bugs in Apple's Safari. Results showed that Safari had by far the worst DOM engine...
cnet.com - Transportation regulators refused to renew Uber's operating license in London. Leon Neal/Getty Images Uber's new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi appears to be doing things a bit differently than his predecessor, Travis Kalanick. London transportation regulators on Fridayrefused to renew Uber's operating ...
cnet.com - After a giant leak, a huge reveal, and a full week with Apple's new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, you'd think we'd know everything about the company's latest phones. But new details keep trickling out. (Did you can charge fasterwith a USB-C cable?) Now, we're seeing the first teardown experts rip ...
theregister.co.uk - Doesn’t stop them trying to put the frighteners, tho DerbyCon Security vendors are inserting language into their products' terms and conditions that attempt to silence critics, folks attending this year's DerbyCon conference were told on Friday.…
news.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Verizon Wireless is giving a reprieve to some rural customers who are scheduled to be booted off their service plans, but only in cases when customers have no other options for cellular service. Verizon recently notified 8,500 customers in 13...
bleepingcomputer.com - According to Avast, the database where the CCleaner hackers were collecting data from infected hosts was deleted on September 12, meaning information on previous victims is now lost to investigators and the number of computers infected with the second-stage backdoor payloads may be larger than in...
yro.slashdot.org - New submitter Rick Schumann writes: Walmart has a new marketing idea: "Going to the store? No one has time for that anymore," Walmart says. They want to partner with a company called August Home, who makes smart locks, so a delivery service can literally deliver groceries right into your refriger...
cnet.com - Take a look behind the scenes at CNET to get to know some of our staff members better and learn what they do to make our site a success. Hello, CNET readers and members! Here I am with another Get to know the CNET family installment --this time coming directly to you from Down Under. I have wi...
cnet.com - Facebook dropped Mark Zuckerberg's plan to restructure the company's voting shares. James Martin/CNET Facebook is dropping a plan to restructure its stock, which would have allowed CEO Mark Zuckerberg to retain control of the company even as he planned to sell his shares for philanthropic causes...
theregister.co.uk - ...And here's how DerbyCon A sprinkle of code and an understanding of the Windows digital certificate process is all that's needed for a miscreant to sneak malware past Microsoft's application whitelist within a corporate environment.…
it.slashdot.org - A member of Adobe's Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) accidentally posted the PGP keys for PSIRT's email account -- both the public and the private keys. According to Ars Technica, "the keys have since been taken down, and a new public key has been posted in its stead." From the rep...
cnet.com - Is the Apple Watch that bad? Did Apple do enough with the Apple TV 4K? Are the new iPhone 8 and 8 Plus boring? We take a deep dive into Apple's latest product line with the man who reviewed them for CNET, Scott Stein.
bleepingcomputer.com - The big news this week is a new variant of the Locky ransomware and its distributors continuing to use massive spam campaigns to distribute it. In other news, we had some small variants that will never make it into distribution or are jokes, but have an interesting
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hacker News: Login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking have leaked online, potentially exposing the personal data and vehicle details of drivers and businesses using its service. Jus...
bleepingcomputer.com - A new variant of the BTCWare ransomware was discovered by ID-Ransomware's Michael Gillespie that appends the .[email]-id-[id].wyvern extension to encrypted files. The BTCWare family of ransomware is distributed by the developers hacking into remote computers with weak passwords using Remote Deskt...
cnet.com - Intel made waves last August with Project Alloy, a truly wireless VR headset with no cords, controllers or need for a separate PC. You'd just walk around a room naturally, and reach out with your hands to interact. But it seems like those waves didn't travel very far, because Intel has decided ...
developers.slashdot.org - rastos1 writes: Oracle has announced the general availability of Java SE 9 (JDK 9), Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 (Java EE 8) and the Java EE 8 Software Development Kit (SDK). JDK 9 is a production-ready implementation of the Java SE 9 Platform Specification, which was recently approved toge...
tech.slashdot.org - A new project is aiming to bring bees online by putting them in tiny "backpacks" so that scientists can track the threatened insect's behaviour and help its survival. From a report: Bees in Manchester initially will be connected to the internet using technology from Cisco to help researchers trac...
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schneier.com - The Flannery family have caught four giant squid, two this year. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here....
cnet.com - Facebook reportedly settled a lawsuit over Mark Zuckerberg's voting power. James Martin/CNET Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was expected to take the stand Tuesday in a high-profile investor lawsuit. But there's apparently no need for that now, because the social network has settled the suit, accor...
news.slashdot.org - Nestle, the world's largest food and beverage company, has been bottling water since 1843 and has grown into the largest seller of bottled water. But a detailed report on Bloomberg uncovers the company's operation in Michigan, revealing that Nestle has come to dominate in the industry in part by ...
cnet.com - The seventh edition of Motor Trend's "World's Greatest Drag Race" is here, and as it turns out, electric cars are nowhere near as boring as many thought they would be. That said, if you've seen any other drag race videos featuring a Tesla, you'd have a good idea of how this one pans out. Tesla's...
tech.slashdot.org - Alex Hern, writing for The Guardian: A "category one" cyber-attack, the most serious tier possible, will happen "sometime in the next few years", a director of the National Cybersecurity Centre has warned. According to the agency, which reports to GCHQ and has responsibly for ensuring the UK's in...
blog.knowbe4.com - Bleepingcomputer posted: "Reports are coming in from multiple security researchers and security firms about increased activity from one of the groups spreading the Locky ransomware. These spam waves have started on September 18 and are pushing the new Locky ransomware variant that encrypts file...
nakedsecurity.sophos.com - I've been writing about technology, careers, science and health since 1995. I rose to the lofty heights of Executive Editor for eWEEK, popped out with the 2008 crash, joined the freelancer economy, and am still writing for my beloved peeps at places like Sophos's Naked Security, CIO Mag, Computer...
cnet.com - Russ and Jeff record the last regular version of the show discussing the reviews of the new Apple Watch, iPhone 8, what to expect from the iPhone X and whether or not Nintendo will make enough SNES Classic Editions for everyone.
cnet.com - Launching on September 29th for $79.99, we finally have our Super NES Classic in house. So far out of the box we're happy to report the included SNES controllers have longer, six-foot wires as opposed to last year's disappointing NES controller length. Other than that it's a pretty standard affai...
news.slashdot.org - Maciej Ceglowski, a Polish-American web developer, has demolished a news story from earlier this week in which a British outlet Channel 4 suggested that Amazon's algorithm-driven suggestions were helping people find items that are required to make bombs. Multiple credible news outlets picked the ...
