Ticketscript-database gaf toegang tot data kwart miljoen concertbezoekers

Ticketscript had een database met daarin persoonlijke gegevens van naar schatting 250.000 bezoekers van concerten en andere evenementen achter een standaard 'admin'-wachtwoord staan. Zo waren namen, telefoonnummers en e-mailadressen van kaartjeskope…

Oracle exec quits over co-CEO Safra Catz's promise to assist Trump

Left-aligned chap says Big Red should not be 'with' president-elect's divisive policies An Oracle employee and anti-Donald-Trump activist has quit the company over co-CEO Safra Catz's decision to join president-elect Donald Trump's transition team a…

EU says UK surveillance laws are illegal and not ‘justified within a democratic society’

iStockNow tells you which Apple Stores have AirPods in stock right now

 One of the best things about Apple’s retail strategy is that when it comes to inventory, they don’t ignore their brick-and-morter stores like some other retailers do. So while the initial inventory of a product like AirPods may sell out online with…

NASA explains how 'Spiders' grow on Mars

Keep your wig on, Ziggy. This is about erosion features. Not our new arachnid overlords NASA thinks it has found an explanation for the “spiders” it's spotted on Mars.…

Soylent supplier severs ties with the company over gastrointestinal smear campaign

Facebook has stopped SHA-ring, a year later than it promised

The Social Network™ revoked its SHA-1 certs in November, but promised to stop serving traffic with the algo last year Facebook's quietly taken its SHA-1 certificates out behind the data centre with an electrified degaussing machine.…

Strong non-backdoored encryption is vital – but the Feds should totally be able to crack it, says House committee

We want to have our cake and stuff our faces with it A bipartisan House working group on encryption has today come to the conclusion that encryption is vital to US national interests, even as it seeks to mitigate the problem the technology can pose …

Wassenaar weapons pact talks collapse leaving software exploit exports in limbo

Some progress, but it's glacial Security researchers face continued uncertainty after talks broke down between US negotiators and 40 other countries over the state of exploit exports.…

HPE says 3PAR problem that broke Australia was a one-off. Probably

Crack team trying to figure out what went wrong at the tax office Hewlett Packard Enterprise says the 3PAR Storage SNAFU that took the Australian Taxation Office offline for a week does not appear to be a systemic problem.…

HPE says 3PAR problem that broke Australia was a one-off. Probably

Crack team trying to figure out what went wrong at the tax office Hewlett Packard Enterprise says the 3PAR Storage SNAFU that took the Australian Taxation Office offline for a week does not appear to be a systemic problem.…

China gives America its underwater drone back – with a warning

Should have thrown in a dictionary, too, for Trump The Chinese government has handed back to America the US Navy underwater drones it stole last week.…

No Soylent for Santa after key ingredient supply is choked off

Toilet pebbledashing not our fault, says TerraVia If you were planning to leave out cookies and a glass of Solyent for Santa, you may need to hoard your stocks for yourself. A key supplier has announced it is cutting off the gruel fan-fiction maker.…

Report: Apple’s Mac team gets a lot less attention than before

Divided efforts and an iOS emphasis could explain the Mac’s diminished profile.

Literally sticking Apple AirPods in your ear is one way to stop them from falling out

You won’t be able to fix Apple AirPods yourself and you probably shouldn’t try

 When it comes to headphones — particularly those of the in-ear variety — DIY repairs are generally a no-go. If it’s a frayed wire shorting out, sure, grab your soldering iron and get to tinkering… but if it’s anything more complicated than that, yo…

Apple begint verkoop LG UltraFine 5k-monitor voor 1049 euro

Apple is begonnen met de verkoop van de LG UltraFine-monitoren. Het 27"-model met een resolutie van 5120x2880 pixels kost 1049 euro. Dat is een tijdelijke prijs, die geldt tot eind maart. Het 21,5"-model met 4k-resolutie gaat in de verkoop voor 561 …

Ad-slinger Turn caught with its hand in Verizon's 'supercookie' jar

Biz settles to end alleged illegal web stalking gripe Advertising biz Turn Inc, which allegedly illegally tracked people online, has settled with US trade watchdog the FTC.…

Testing times: Can your crypto-code survive the Google gauntlet?

Mount Wycheproof pinpoints mistakes in software libraries Google has unleashed Project Wycheproof, a set of security tests to check cryptographic libraries for susceptibility to known weaknesses.…

You can now buy refurbished Apple Watch models for as little as $229

Kingpin in $1m global bank malware ring gets five years in chokey

Cyber-crim nabbed after he used home IP address to empty victims' accounts A villain at the heart of an organized crime network that stole £840k ($1m) from victims' online bank accounts has been jailed.…