Research finds faster cracking flaw. Apple is brewing a fix to patch an iOS password flaw that allows credentials to be stolen from backups.…
Lees meerCrims are so keen to chat they respond to random hipsterisms and send legit discount codes Brian Weinreich has been trolling spammers for two years using a bot that fires realistic and ridiculous replies to the pervasive online salespeople.…
Lees meerTime for competition authorities to take a hard look at Nominet UK domain name holders are being overcharged while the company behind it wins contracts by undercutting the market in what may be illegal market abuse.…
Lees meerIntel software speeds HPC distributed file work DataDirect Networks has upgraded its EXAScaler array to run the latest version of Intel’s Lustre software.…
Lees meerHTML5 all the way. But nor for ads, so keep those malware shields up, people Yahoo! has joined the flood of companies flushing Adobe's Flash.…
Lees meer'Obscene songs' also get the ban-hammer in the Australian State of Victoria Buttnote Public service announcement: if you're going on a bender in the Australian city of Melbourne, do not indulge in the practice of “mooning”, because you could end up…
Lees meer600 Gbps traffic flood overwhelmed CDN Google has provided free distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) mitigation services to security publication Krebs on Security, stepping in after Akamai withdrew support.…
Lees meerAndre Leibovici's out of time, so it's your turn to step up Virtualisation identity Andre Leibovici has open-sourced his desktop virtualisation (VDI) infrastructure calculator.…
Lees meerPen testers, devs, and other infosec bods with all skills wanted The antipodean spy agency the Australian Signals Directorate is seeking cleaning staff information security personnel for offensive and defensive operations.…
Lees meerIt's time to make Layer 2 scaleable again Interview It's way too easy to get past a firewall, map out an enterprise's network, and start tapping IP addresses looking for vulnerable machines – so why are we using Layer 3 addressing as the basis of t…
Lees meerWhat were they smoking? Good e-commerce strategy: couriers are nicer to tellies than pushies Ditch bicycle company VanMoof has found that disguising its products as televisions leads to lower rates of damage in transit.…
Lees meerMust do better: still lagging Telstra in the TITSUP stakes Vodafone has moved to reassert its once-dominant position in the Australian network outage stakes, suffering a seven-hour TITSUP (Total Inability To Support Usual Performance) on Sunday even…
Lees meerRemember kids: don't light what comes out of the tailpipe The US Air Force says a strong tailwind is behind the runway fire that's grounded yet another of its F-35 fighter aircraft.…
Lees meerHave the makers SEEN the rates of street crime here? An Estonian robotics company is trailing six-wheeled delivery robots that can trundle through San Francisco delivering goods to the local population.…
Lees meerCanonical on OpenStack dev You’ve heard of hyperscale, but now “Big Software” is the new big thing over at Canonical, and the open source outfit is keen to promote anything that fits with its vision of how massive, hyperscale infrastructure is going…
Lees meer'We are well aware of these websites' says black-shirted Border Force Australian authorities say they can detect dark net transactions.…
Lees meerClass-action lawsuit in California expected to be first of many in the US Just two days after Yahoo! admitted hackers had raided its database of at least 500 million accounts, the Purple Palace is being dragged into court.…
Lees meerInvestigations team probed rocket debris and data from 1 September explosion A large breach in the liquid oxygen tank of Space X’s Falcom 9 rocket likely caused the explosion during a test at the start of this month, investigators have said.…
Lees meerLarry, Mark and Safra's pay packet $46.5m lighter in fiscal '16 It still pays to run Oracle, just not as much as it used to - top executives’ packages shrank by double digits in fiscal ’16 as the software titan continued to desperately seek out clou…
Lees meer'New 'soft closers' good, but the acrylic panels make the bogs look like a CDT project Smelly toilets, smoking outside and questions as to who is the best Kardashian: these were just some of the issues Virgin Media top brass were grilled on in Q&A w…
Lees meerNa shledanou Česká republika, dobry den Czechia! The British government will start referring to Czechia rather than the Czech Republic, following advice from an official committee.…
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