Unplug the Bitcoin miner and do us all a favour: Antminer has remote shutdown flaw

‘Antbleed’ attack could crock 70 per cent of all mining. Time to try another flavour? A new branded bug (sigh) has landed, specific to an ASIC-based Bitcoin miner: dubbed “Antbleed”, it allows remote shutdown of hardware sold by a company called "Bi…

Homebrew crypto SNAFU on electrical grid sees GE rush patches

Boffins turned up hard-coded password in ancient controllers General Electric is pushing patches for protection relay bugs that, if exploited, could open up transmission systems to a grid-scale attack.…

FTP becoming Forgotten Transfer Protocol as Debian turns it off

Distro download servers are too hard to run and users ignore them anyway Debian's decided to shut down its public File Transfer Protocol (FTP) services, because hardly anybody uses them any more and they're hard to operate and maintain.…

Australia' Smart meter leaders lag in securing devices

Centre for Internet Safety calls for consumer safeguards Default passwords, unpatched firmware, unencrypted traffic: according to a report from a Canberra University research organisation, Australia's smart electricity meter rollouts are characteris…

FTP becoming Forgotten Transfer Protocol as Debian turns it off

Distro download servers are too hard to run and users ignore them anyway Debian's decided to shut down its public File Transfer Protocol (FTP) services, because hardly anybody uses them any more and they're hard to operate and maintain.…

Chipotle may have banished E coli, but now it has a new infection

Another reason to feel queasy when leaving – bank-card-stealing malware The last quarter has been a trying one for Mexican fast-food chain Chipotle. People are returning to its restaurants after the great 2015 E coli outbreak, but now customers are …

Linux kernel security gurus Grsecurity oust freeloaders from castle

No more test patches without a subscription Linux users, the free lunch is over. Pennsylvania-based Open Source Security on Wednesday decided to stop making test patches of Grsecurity available for free.…

HPE kills off its entire OpenSDN line, pulls plug on customer demos

ISPs told they'll have to find another vendor Exclusive  Hewlett Packard Enterprise has quietly axed its OpenSDN suite, effective immediately.…

HPE kills off its entire OpenSDN line, pulls plug on customer demos

ISPs told they'll have to find another vendor Exclusive  Hewlett Packard Enterprise has quietly axed its OpenSDN suite, effective immediately.…

Beware of geeks bearing gifts: Evil game guides infect 2 million Androids

Google Play scanners asleep at the switch while morons tap away their security Ad-displaying malware in nearly 50 apps on the Google Play Store has infected nearly two million phones.…

Components drive record Samsung profits as mobile sales slide

FCC's Pai: I am going to kill net neutrality in US

Comms watchdog boss opens can of worms, sticks partisan head in The head of America's telecoms regulator, the FCC, has vowed to kill off his nation's net neutrality safeguards.…

Oprichter Siri: mensen gaan herinneringen uploaden via kunstmatige intelligentie

Mensen gaan in de toekomst herinneringen opslaan en doorzoekbaar maken via kunstmatige intelligentie. Dat zegt Tom Gruber, een van de bedenkers van Siri. Gruber verkocht Siri in 2010 aan Apple, die het al jaren gebruikt op zijn apparaten.

Try to sell stuff through Facebook Marketplace and get locked out for 72 hours – nice one, Zuck

Bug of the week, perhaps? Netizens trying to sell items in Facebook Marketplace for the first time were completely locked out of the social network for 72 hours this week.…

Don't install our buggy Windows 10 Creators Update, begs Microsoft

We'll give it to you when it's ready – and it is not Microsoft has urged non-tech-savvy people – or anyone who just wants a stable computer – to not download and install this year's biggest revision to Windows by hand. And that's because it may well…

Video toont Moto Mods voor onder meer Lego-steentjes en printer

Er is een video verschenen waarin ogenschijnlijk Lenovo diverse concepten laat zien van toekomstige Moto Mods. Zo is er een mod met gaatjes voor het bouwen van dingen met Lego en eentje die zowel de telefoon als accumods draadloos kan laden.

Amazon presenteert speaker met camera en functie voor kledingadvies

Amazon heeft de Echo Look gepresenteerd, een speaker met ingebouwde camera. Met de camera kunnen gebruikers foto's en video's nemen en op basis van algoritmes advies krijgen over welke outfit het beste staat.

Yeah, keep buying those SSDs, grins Seagate: Your data will be on our disks eventually, muaha

Beating flash on $/TB in nearline drives a core strategy Seagate made a canine evening meal of its third 2017 fiscal quarter – with flattish revenues on the annual compare greeted by a disappointed Wall Street expecting more and marking the shares d…

Yeah, keep buying those SSDs, grins Seagate: Your data will be on our disks eventually, muaha

Beating flash on $/TB in nearline drives a core strategy Seagate made a canine evening meal of its third 2017 fiscal quarter – with flattish revenues on the annual compare greeted by a disappointed Wall Street expecting more and marking the shares d…

The Pope gave a TED Talk and asked tech companies to do better

Reddit schaft custom css voor subreddits af

Website Reddit maakt het onmogelijk voor moderators om subreddits met custom css aan te passen. In plaats daarvan komen er tools om thema's te maken voor subreddits. Moderators op Reddit lijken niet blij met de stap.