Eurocrats prep white-box crypto capture-the-flag

ECRYPT WhobOx Challenge opens May 15 Defender or attacker, it's less than a fortnight away from the WhibOx Challenge, a capture-the-flag (CTF) competition operated by the EU-supported ECRYPT.…

AWOL Payroll outfit Plutus says it's very solvent, but can't say when it will pay workers

Also won't say why

LG’s new 42.5-inch monitor can display four inputs at once

Pen-tester gets past Microsoft VB macro barriers

Outlook Forms aren't macros, after all - but is it a bug or a feature? A bunch of white-hat researchers have turned up a nasty new vector for attacking Microsoft Outlook: a forms creation feature that bypasses macro rules so attackers can get to the…

Up Wolf Creek without a signal: outback cable cut disconnects top end TPG, Optus customers

Truck hauls up Nextgen fibre, the fix is in once repair crews can find the break A cut to a Nextgen Networks fibre is cutting off Northern Territory Optus and TPG customers north of Katherine.…

Up Wolf Creek without a signal: outback cable cut disconnects top end TPG, Optus customers

Truck hauls up Nextgen fibre, the fix is in once repair crews can find the break A cut to a Nextgen Networks fibre is cutting off Northern Territory Optus and TPG customers north of Katherine.…

Trump trumps US Digital Service with order to establish American Technology Council

'Americans must transform and modernize its information technology' but Silicon Valley hasn't been invited to help United States president Donald Trump has issued an executive order to establish an “American Technology Council” and given it a job to…

Jenkins admin? Get buzzy patching, says Cloudbees

DevOps types are going to have to prioritise Ops for a bit to quash Java, login vulns Cloudbees's Jenkins needs a patch against a Java deserialisation vulnerability.…

Cisco slurps Viptela to bolster SD-WAN management

US$610 million shaves a third from last year's valuation Cisco has just paid $US610 million to buy an software-defined WAN outfit founded and managed by former Cisco execs.…

What's a 'good' quarter at AMD these days? Throwing $73m on a fire

Don't worry, baby, it'll be really great in the second quarter AMD is optimistic about its chances of getting back into black ink after what it felt was a strong quarter to start the year.…

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s first DLC pack adds new outfits and a hard mode

What's driving people out of tech biz? Unfair treatment, harassment

Bosses must pay attention to fixing workplace culture Analysis  Among the reasons people leave jobs in the technology industry, the most common, according to a study released last week, is unfair treatment.…

That antique shaving brush could give you face anthrax

Net neutrality blowback: Cities say no. Court says whoa. Trumpster blames Canada for not going slow

Remember how awful it was last time around? Just you wait Blowback from the decision to reopen net neutrality rules in America is continuing, with cities, the Washington courts and presidential advisors all piling in.…

Confirmed: Intel patches remote execution hole that's been hidden in its chips since 2008

AMT/ME vulnerability found in March, now fix is coming Developing  Intel's Management Engine – which can be used to remotely administrate, control and update systems over a network – can be exploited by miscreants to silently hijack vulnerable compu…

Wetenschappers ontwikkelen mobiele 3d-printrobot voor maken van gebouwen

Wetenschappers van MIT hebben een 3d-printrobot ontwikkeld die in staat is om de basisstructuur van een gebouw te printen. Het systeem is mobiel en moet volgens de onderzoekers in staat zijn om in de toekomst geheel autonoom gebouwen op bijvoorbeeld…

Netgear confirms: Intel's wobbly Puma 6 in fast broadband modems is super-easy to choke out

No fix ready yet for DoS-able home gateways Netgear has warned customers about the trivial denial-of-service vulnerability discovered in its Intel-powered gigabit cable modems.…

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is in de VS de snelst verkopende Mario Kart-game ooit

Nintendo heeft bekendgemaakt dat Mario Kart 8 Deluxe voor de Nintendo Switch de snelst verkopende Mario Kart-game in de geschiedenis van de serie is. De game is op 28 april, de eerste dag van de verkoop, in de VS in totaal 459.000 keer over de toonb…

What is this bullsh*t, Google? Nexus phones starved of security fixes after just three years

That's one way to boost new handset sales Google has published timelines for when it will kill off security patches for its Nexus-branded Android line.…

Netgear ReadyNAS 6.7.1

Netgear heeft ReadyNAS versie 6.7.1 uitgebracht. Deze software draait op de diverse nas-apparaten van Netgear, zoals de met een arm-processor uitgeruste RN102, RN104, RN202, RN204, RN212, RN214 en RN2120, en de met een x86-processor uitgeruste RN312…

Elon Musk wil ondergronds 3d-tunnelnetwerk creëren door smalle tunnels te boren

Elon Musk, de topman van SpaceX en Tesla, heeft op de TED-conferentie gezegd dat hij voor het creëren van een 3d-netwerk van ondergrondse tunnels voor auto's de kosten van het boren wil beperken door relatief smalle tunnels te laten boren.