Mark Dearnley was in charge of Europe's biggest public sector IT project HMRC IT chief Mark Dearnley walked away from his £185,000-a-year job because the private sector paid better, MPs heard yesterday.…
Lees meerMacOS, iOS task threading was open to hijack When Apple shipped its security bug-fixes earlier this week, one patch mostly passed under the radar.…
Lees meerMaking devices secure by design requires more effort than vendors currently allow At the end of April my home was broken into by a professional who silently and systematically looted my residence of all my portable wealth while I slept.…
Lees meerNo phone? No worries Paypal has patched a boneheaded two factor authentication breach that allowed attackers to switch off the critical account control in minutes by changing a zero to a one.…
Lees meerPopular RC protocol pwned PacSec Security researcher Jonathan Andersson has developed a tidy hardware module capable of fully hijacking a variety of popular drones and remote control gear running over the most popular protocol.…
Lees meerARM vs. x86 can wait as first decent Xeon alternatives in ages pressure Chipzilla AMD has deployed a team of folks to charm enterprise server users ahead of the debut of its Zen designed-from-scratch x86 processor microarchitecture and the message t…
Lees meerIt's ALIVE: Juno back online after reboot NASA's Juno space probe has successfully rebooted after a recent Jupiter fly-by was disrupted by an unexpected “safe-mode” event.…
Lees meer'Don't buy rubbish Webcams', carrier tells customers StarHub in Singapore is the latest large network to get hammered with attacks on its DNS infrastructure – apparently by compromised kit owned by its customers.…
Lees meerBut it did beat the street as vSphere sales held, new products grew, cloud strategy worked, desktops drooped a bit If VMware is a legacy software company soon to be killed by cloud, you may want to find more more legacy companies in which to invest*…
Lees meerBuffer overruns, remote code execution, you know the drill LibTIFF has three bugs that let booby-trapped files pwn a target - and only two of them have been patched.…
Lees meerDNS really needs to be fixed if it can be taken out by 100,000 home devices With more time to analyse its logs, DNS provider Dyn reckons about 100,000 Mirai-infected home web-connected gadgets knocked it out last Friday.…
Lees meerBorked two factor authentication also fixed Joomla! has revealed it's patched twin critical flaws allowing attackers to bypass rules and create elevated privilege accounts.…
Lees meerAnd Paint 3D, the emoji killer After sitting through two hours of presentations, Microsoft has let journalists loose on the new kit it has announced, and the results are surprisingly good – at least from a hardware perspective.…
Lees meerIndexedDB API 2.0 spec has reached draft form. Contain yourself, and your data The Indexed Database API 2.0 has arrived in draft form, promising a variety of improvements in the way developers of web applications can store data in browsers.…
Lees meerChildren will die, companies will shout 'sue me then,' and you'll still be using Facebook IoT World Congress The future of personal data sharing is that “everything will become as-a-service” and nobody will own any property outright ever again, a g…
Lees meerChocolate Factory's chat app goes dark Google says it has now resolved the issues that caused its Hangouts meeting service to go down earlier today.…
Lees meerNew study: You'll get better LTE connections with Qualcomm-equipped mobes Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus come with one of two cellular modems, Qualcomm's MDM9645M modem or Intel's XMM7360 modem, depending upon the associated mobile carrier.…
Lees meerHits the road to sell the last BlackBerry-BlackBerry The more BlackBerry explains its phone strategy, the more people insist there will never be another BlackBerry. Which must be annoying. Headlines a month ago that the company had “hung up on its h…
Lees meerWindows users already under threat from malware attacks Adobe is advising users to update Flash Player, after the internet's screen door once again fell victim to a zero-day exploit.…
Lees meerCyber defense overall must be prioritized, says Intel Security’s Raj Samani Cybercriminals are spreading into the healthcare sector even though the price per stolen medical record remains lower than for comparable financial account crime.…
Lees meerAmbitious pledges ahead of Article 50 negotiations Universities and science minister Jo Johnson has promised that the UK government will not "dip into the ringfence" of the allocated science budget to underwrite EU funding following the UK's departu…
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