Apple Patches iOS To Stop Jailbreaking
Apple's blunder didn't go unnoticed and earlier this month, a security researcher named Pwn20wnd released a public exploit based on Williamson's bug that could be used to jailbreak up-to-date iOS...
View ArticleIs RISC V Going Carbon-Nano
The key insight by the researchers behind the new chip was that certain logical functions are less sensitive to metallic nanotubes than others and they modified an open source RISC design tool.
View ArticleexFat Headed To Linux
While Microsoft isn’t open-sourcing exFAT it is making sure anyone building with Linux can use it.
View ArticleDid A Massive DDoS Attack Strike Wikipedia Last Week
That's as detailed as the post goes, although the German Wikipedia Twitter account confirmed that it was "paralysed by a massive and very broad DDoS hit". That's how Google Translate frames it anyway,...
View ArticleUber Getting Into Helicopter Rides At JFK
Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc is entering air space New York City where users with a little cash to spare will soon be able to book helicopter flights to John F. Kennedy International...
View ArticleLinux Gets Locked Down
This is one of the biggest commitments to security in Linux for some time, and when activated will even block access to root users.
View ArticleShould Users Be Concerned About Microsoft’s Dominance
At the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference, Torvalds agreed that Vole wanted to control Linux, but he is not too worried about it. The reason is that Linux, by its very nature and its GPL2 open-source...
View ArticleFitbit Teams Up With Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance On Irregular Heart...
Fitbit Inc is working on creating a method to detect irregular heart rhythm in time through a partnership with Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance, as the wearable device maker looks to match a...
View ArticleIs Apple Bowing to China Censorship Demands
The order shows Apple’s problems in competing in a market which is supposed to prop up its other sales. If Apple TV produces a meaningful documentary about Tibet, for example, it could harm the sales...
View ArticleAre Hackers Keeping Cybersecurity Analyst Busy
This may be due to a lack of faith in the industry’s ability to solve the key shortage, rather than a belief that doing so is of little importance. Again, regulation and compliance are not seen as a...
View ArticleUber Appears To Be Making Hackers Sign Certain Agreements
US attorney for Northern California Dave Anderson told CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave this in an exclusive interview. Anderson, who investigated the hack, said there's "no way to know...
View ArticleIs Google Moving Toward A Linux Kernel
As of February 2018, the Android common kernel (which OEMs make additional changes to) has over 32,000 insertions and over 1,500 deletions compared to mainline Linux 4.14.0.
View ArticleAnother Exploit Impacts Android Banking Data
Promon said the research built upon that carried out by Penn State University in 2015, which found aspects of the flaw and disclosed it to Google, but the search giant dismissed the vulnerability's...
View ArticleApple Macs Appear To Have More Malware Than Windows
The Tame Apple Press says that this is not a problem at all as it just proves that Macs are now popular and hackers can now be bothered spending some time writing malware. They also claim that in 2018,...
View ArticleiPhone Jailbroken With Android
Checkra1n does some dirty tricks like interrupting USB transfers mid-way, and there's no user-level API for that.
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