ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

White hats reported key Kaseya VSA flaw months ago. Ransomware outran the patch

(2021/07/08)

So close, and yet so far



Not a baaa-d idea: Embracing the eunuch lifestyle slows ageing – for sheep anyway

(2021/07/08)

Too big a price to pay for decelerating your epigenetic clock?



Tencent uses facial recognition to enforce China’s curfew on gaming kids

(2021/07/08)

Accounts held in grown-ups’ names targeted if they stay up late



The James Webb Space Telescope, a project dating back to the late 1900s, may launch this very century

(2021/07/08)

Europeans still hoping for Halloween lift-off



Three-dozen US states plus DC sue Google over Play Store's revenue cut, payment system, and more

(2021/07/08)

Chocolate Factory rolls its eyes at 'meritless' antitrust lawsuit



IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out

(2021/07/08)

Behind the curtain: Server crashes, thumbs down on Slack, staff compared to shoemaker's kids, and more



You've patched that critical Sage X3 ERP security hole, yeah? Not exposing the suite to the internet, either, yeah?

(2021/07/08)

Details of flaws now public for miscreants to exploit



Holistic cybersecurity governance yields resilient telco services in 5G world

(2021/07/08)

ZTE focuses on holistic security assurance to establish trust through transparency



Bogus Kaseya VSA patches circulate, booby-trapped with remote-access tool

(2021/07/08)

Phishing campaign aims to capitalize on slow fix deployment, it seems



Prime Minister says national security advisor will probe Chinese acquisition of UK's top chip maker

(2021/07/07)

Newport Wafer Fab sale to Wingtech goes under microscope



Amazon Lumberyard is dead, long live the permissively licensed Open 3D Engine

(2021/07/07)

Company donates the whole shooting match to the newly formed foundation, joins as founding member



Florida Man sues Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for account ban

(2021/07/07)

Golf fan has opinions on America's First Amendment and Section 230



Microsoft defends intrusive dialog in Visual Studio Code that asks if you really trust the code you've been working on

(2021/07/07)

'All the subtlety of a GDPR cookie banner and the charm of Clippy'



Microsoft struggles to wake from PrintNightmare: Latest print spooler patch can be bypassed, researchers say

(2021/07/07)

I pity the spool



NASA readies commands to switch on Hubble's back-up hardware

(2021/07/07)

Observatory might be able to spot distant stars, but it can't hear a bunch of engineers holding their breath



Oi! Our British Airways data breach compo sueball is still going, shouts rival law firm

(2021/07/07)

Yesterday's settlement was just one of the bigger firms



Wondering where your data is? It’s probably chilling on a hard disk

(2021/07/07)

70 years on, and the platters are still top of the storage charts



After 15 years and $500m, the US Navy decides it doesn't need shipboard railguns after all

(2021/07/07)

Pentagon feels it can counter Chinese electromagnetic projectiles with stuff it already has or will have shortly



Report shines light on REvil's depressingly simple tactics: Phishing, credential-stuffing RDP servers... the usual

(2021/07/07)

And those multimillion-dollar payouts



Boffins say they've improved on algorithm for dynamic load balancing of server workloads

(2021/07/07)

Not too soon, either. Levels of internet traffic seen in 2017 will have tripled by 2022



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Free yourself from negative influence. Negative thoughts are the old
habits that gnaw at the roots of the soul.
Moses Shongo, (Seneca)