'Alien: Covenant' photo confirms James Franco is aboard – CNET
Here’s a picture of a bunch of people who are about to start running for their lives. Source: CNet
Read MoreHere’s a picture of a bunch of people who are about to start running for their lives. Source: CNet
Read MoreThe famed entrepreneur, rapper and author will invest in other entrepreneurs. When does he sleep? Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Java and Python runtimes fail to properly validate FTP URLs, which can potentially allow attackers to punch holes through firewalls to access local networks. On Saturday, security researcher Alexander Klink disclosed an interesting attack where exploiting an XXE (XML External Entity) vulnerability in a Java application can be used to send emails. [ 18
Read MoreSocial Cues: Also trending on Twitter are a riot in Sweden and deaths along Libya’s shore. Source: CNet
Read MoreThe store of the future might not have human cashiers, but people will be there to make sure your alcohol purchase is legal. Source: CNet
Read MoreInfrared sensors working with its front-facing camera could play a role in facial recognition or iris scans. Source: CNet
Read MoreYou… probably don’t want the front driveshaft disconnecting at speed. Source: CNet
Read More“Alexa, reassure me that buying this new gadget won’t harm the environment.” Source: CNet
Read MoreVerizon Communications will pay $350 million less for Yahoo after two major data breaches reported by the struggling internet pioneer. Verizon will pay about $4.48 billion for Yahoo’s operating business, and the two companies will share any potential legal and regulatory liabilities arising from two major data breaches announced in late 2016. The companies announced
Read MoreMicrosoft’s latest OneDrive roadmap shows Q2 2017 as the ship target for a long-awaited feature: Differential sync. Source: Microsoft
Read MoreMicrosoft sent an email to its largest customers on Monday, alerting them that Adobe Flash Player patches for Internet Explorer and Edge will be coming today. Apparently Microsoft’s announcement last week that it would delay February patches until March 14 didn’t tell the whole story. Yesterday’s email says in part: Microsoft is planning to release security
Read MoreAfter suffering a series of massive security breaches, Yahoo apparently wasn’t worth the original $4.83 billion price anymore. Source: CNet
Read MoreIt’s an open-source love fest: The Kubernetes container cluster manager is now generally available on Microsoft’s Azure Container Service. Source: Microsoft
Read MoreAt $651, the average price of an iPhone is already well above the $208 average cost of an Android smartphone. If Apple adds technology that costs a lot more money to produce, are you ready to foot the bill? Source: DIY IT
Read MoreDC’s “Justice League”, Disney’s Star Wars franchise along with many other films and TV shows are getting toy incarnations that are being shown off at the New York Toy Fair. Source: CNet
Read MoreCommentary: Fabled startup Magic Leap has stumbled in recent weeks, as its overpromising past catches up to its underdelivering present. Source: CNet
Read MoreRansomware is running rampant. The SonicWall GRID Threat Network detected an increase from 3.8 million ransomware attacks in 2015 to 638 million in 2016. According to a Radware report, 49 percent of businesses were hit by a ransomware attack in 2016. Quite often the attacker asks for some amount of cybercurrency – usually Bitcoin –
Read MoreImagine Lego blocks that connect to a computer and can be coded to do your bidding (sort of). Source: CNet
Read MoreOne of the biggest problems with security defenses is the lack of concrete data to measure the effectiveness of mitigations against threats. In almost any other industry, the dearth of data would be embarrassing. As I’ve noted before, every organization needs to develop a data-driven security defense. Such a defense uses a company’s own threat intelligence to
Read MoreOpen source is a wonderful thing. A significant chunk of today’s enterprise IT and personal technology depends on open source software. But even while open source software is widely used in networking, operating systems, and virtualization, enterprise security platforms still tend to be proprietary and vendor-locked. Fortunately, that’s changing. If you haven’t been looking to
Read MoreJust nine more months of hell to endure. Source: CNet
Read MoreA new agreement will see piracy websites kicked off the front page of Bing and Google search results in the UK. Source: CNet
Read MoreActor Josh Gad continues his Episode VIII interrogation. Source: CNet
Read MoreCar-hailing company plans to begin publishing diversity numbers for its workforce in the wake of charges of sexual harassment charges. Source: CNet
Read MoreBetter worry about the fate of your furious bladder, as this could be the longest film in the high-speed series. Source: CNet
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