Passwords were salted, so there's some comfort A staffer of social music streaming site 8Tracks is having a really bad day: a bit of GitHub carelessness has leaked 18 million user accounts.…
Lees meerSecurity service calls NotPetya an 'act of cyberterrorism' The Ukraine, hardest hit by this week's “NotPetya” ransomware/havoc-ware, has called for help from Europol, the FBI, and England's National Crime Agency to investigate who was behind it.…
Lees meerSoftware update adds traction control to protect rover's wheels After 18 months of testing, NASA's pushed a patch to the Mars Curiosity Rover – to extend its wheels' life, and eliminate over-exuberant climbs causing “wheelies”.…
Lees meerNine SNMP MIBs vulnerable Cisco's been caught out by the venerable Simple Network Management Protocol, turning up nine bugs in IOS and IOS XE that appear in all SNMP versions.…
Lees meerAnother day, another botched government contract Australia's derailed outsourcing of its National Cancer Registry is the latest project red-flagged by the Australian National Audit Office.…
Lees meerNo phone tracking without asking for permission that you probably already granted The US state of Illinois is about to pass a law that makes it illegal to track a phone's location without the owner's consent.…
Lees meerAlso starts mysterious VIP service for $130,000 The Shadow Brokers is once again trying to sell yet more stolen NSA cyber-weapons, raising the asking price in the process. And the gang has threatened to out one of the US spy agency's ex-operatives t…
Lees meerIt was 10 years ago today that Steve Jobs announced the long-rumored iPhone to a crowd of tech lovers excited to a fever pitch. We’ve already looked at the history of the iPhone going back to the Newton, but 10 years of iPhone have brought us more …
Lees meerStable for up to 10x the distance from Earth to Moon A team of physicists claims to have created the world's sharpest laser, with a line width frequency of only 10 millihertz – opening up the possibility of improving the accuracy of optical clocks a…
Lees meerThe new operating system isn’t rife with shiny new features, but it brings enhancements under the hood designed to speed up devices. More importantly, they help future-proof Apple’s technology, from its first new file system since the early days of…
Lees meerMSI heeft twee nieuwe muizen in de Clutch-serie aangekondigd: de GM70 en GM60. De muizen van de Taiwanese fabrikant beschikken over rgb-verlichting, Omron Gaming-switches en verwisselbare thumb rests.
Lees meerHang on, there's a tech angle in here somewhere... IoT, right? Fad-crazed parents have something new to worry about, as reports suggest that fidget spinners can pose a fire risk.…
Lees meerBrendan Carr will be a reliable vote against net neutrality as an FCC commissioner President Donald Trump has nominated Brendan Carr, the FCC's general counsel, to fill the last remaining Republican commissioner slot at America's telco watchdog.…
Lees meerThanks, WackyLeaks The latest cache of classified intelligence documents dumped online by WikiLeaks includes files describing malware CIA apparently uses to track PCs via Wi‑Fi.…
Lees meerStichting Brein waarschuwt dat aanbieders van inbreukmakende mediaspelers in het vervolg rekening moeten houden met een schikking van een veelvoud van tienduizend euro en mogelijke aangifte. Ook de aanbieder van Filmspeler heeft inmiddels geschikt.
Lees meerSafe to assume the money will keep getting better Some security-conscious organizations award hackers up to $900,000 a year, according to what's touted as the biggest bug bounty industry report to date.…
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