Digital transformation in 2019: The big insights and trends

Many organizations have embarked on the journey of digital transformation over the past several years to sustainably reinvent themselves. The first lessons learned have been challenging to isolate and capture -- until recently. Here's what we know so far.

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Two SIM swappers arrested for CMCT hack

Suspects stand accused of stealing cryptocurrency worth $14 million from a California startup.

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Gigantic 100,000-strong botnet used to hijack traffic meant for Brazilian banks

Botnet redirects hijacked traffic to over 50 active phishing sites.

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If being customer first is so important, why don't companies do it?

Technology may help enterprises deliver better customer experiences, but there are a lot of things--notably culture--in the way.

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LG V40, Wear OS 2, Chromebooks, and privacy (MobileTechRoundup show #446)

Don't worry, there won't be any drinking for new devices as you listen to MobileTechRoundup show #446 with Kevin and I. There was still plenty to talk about though with October shaping up to be a big month for mobile.

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Mission impossible: Can you regain access after Twitter lockout?

If your Twitter is hacked, it could be gone permanently and Twitter may not help. Here is one user's sad story and how you can protect yourself.

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Apple iPhone XS Max OtterBox case roundup: Three options for adding rugged drop protection

The iPhone XS Max is Apple's most expensive smartphone yet and while it offers a high level of dust and water resistance, it is still susceptible to drops. OtterBox is known for protecting your phones and has 48 options in eight different series.

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Minimizing repair costs in cloud storage

Advanced error correction codes (ECCs) at the heart of modern storage are way beyond the RAID codes of the late 1980s. But today's codes force tradeoffs between reliability and repair costs. Can we have both reliability and low-cost data repairs?

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The next UX frontier: a simpler view of enterprise applications

Users want the ease of mobile and cloud apps at work, this requires stepping up the commitment to application design.

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Web inventor Berners-Lee creates a new privacy first way of dealing with the internet

First, Sir Tim Berners-Lee created the web, now he wants to save it.

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Telegram fixes IP address leak in desktop client

Telegram client leaks IP addresses by default, but it also leaked IPs during a privacy-hardened mode.

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UK Conservative Party conference app leaks MPs' personal details

MP members received prank calls, had their phone numbers and email addresses shared online.

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Nomad Horween leather cases for Apple iPhone XS Max: Functional, rugged, and attractive

The Apple iPhone XS Max is the most expensive smartphone currently available so spending $45 to $80 on a case seems like a reasonable investment for protection and function. Nomad makes some of the best leather options and we took two of them for a spin.

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Facebook says it detected security breach after traffic spike

Facebook says the vulnerability hackers exploited was actually a combination of three bugs.

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Key Oracle exec Thomas Kurian resigns

Kurian's departure reportedly comes after disagreements with Larry Ellison over Oracle's cloud strategy.

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​Linus Torvalds answers 5 questions in BBC letter

In an e-mail to the BBC, Torvalds comes over as a voice of reason in the heated Linux Code of Conduct fights.

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Microsoft is bringing the Robot Operating System to Windows 10

Microsoft is bringing ROS, a set of libraries and tools for building complex robots, to Windows and Azure.

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When chatbots are a very bad idea

Not every business problem can be solved by using chatbots. Here are some inappropriate uses for the AI tool.

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India's Supreme Court strips Universal ID scheme of its overreach but retains its essence

OPINION: While both the Congress and the BJP are claiming the judgement to be victories, critics hail it for ultimately reining in the aspirations of what they call a growing surveillance state.

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Ignite 2018: Microsoft steps up data platform and AI ambitions

​Microsoft unveils big-data-capable SQL Server 2019 and extended AI capabilities to power data-driven innovation.

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Six months with Apple Watch 3: I'm sold

I hadn't worn a watch for 20 years when I bought an Apple Watch Series 3 six months ago. Now I wear it every day. Here's why -- and what I don't like.

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Microsoft deprioritizes its touch-enabled Office Mobile apps for Windows

Microsoft is putting the mobile versions of its Office applications for Windows on the back burner, and is instead prioritizing development for the Win32 and web versions of those applications.

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Facebook discloses network breach affecting 50 million user accounts

Facebook said attackers exploited a vulnerability in its code that let them steal access tokens when users switched over to a public profile view via the "View As" feature.

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Intel says PC chip supply is on track to meet full-year revenue targets

In a letter to customers, Intel CFO and Interim CEO Bob Swan says the chipmaker is investing an extra $1 billion in its 14nm manufacturing sites.

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At Dreamforce, Einstein's new friend Siri was the biggest winner of all

It's officially known as Dreamforce, but in reality, it turned into Voiceforce, with Siri being the big beneficiary.

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Python is a hit with hackers, report finds

Imperva: Up to 77% of the sites we monitor were attacked by a Python-based tool.

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Salesforce's master plan through fiscal 2022 by the numbers

Salesforce's growth for the years ahead are pegged to multi-cloud customers as well as add ons to core services. Here's a look at the core figures.

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Processing time series data: What are the options?

Get your data from everywhere you can, anytime you can, they said, so you did. Now, you have a series of data points through time (a time series) in your hands, and you don't know what to do with it? Worry not, because there's a bunch of options.

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BlackBerry beats Q2 targets, cites growth in automotive vertical

Meanwhile, BlackBerry said handheld device revenue was $5 million, down from $8 million last quarter.

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Here's how much it costs to charge a smartphone for a year

How much does the electricity needed to charge a smartphone over the course of a year cost? Under a dollar? A few dollars? Tens of dollars? Hundreds of dollars? Let's find out. Updated: September 2019.

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FBI solves mystery surrounding 15-year-old Fruitfly Mac malware

Fruitfly malware author used port scanning with weak or no passwords to identify potential victims.

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Apple Watch gets a watchOS 5.0.1 update

If you're a fitness fanatic, or your Apple Watch hasn't been charging, this watchOS 5.0.1 update is for you.

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Battle of the big smartphones: Apple iPhone XS Max vs Samsung Galaxy Note 9

Apple and Samsung recently released large flagship smartphones priced at $1,000+. They are close to the same size and have the latest specs, but there are also some significant differences that will lead you to one over the other for your business needs.

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Here's how Apple, Google, and Microsoft can stop robocalls

In the war against telephone spam, only superior firepower will win. But it will require cooperation between the competing tech superpowers and their clouds in order to do it.

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​Microsoft Office 365 for business: Everything you need to know

Microsoft's multitude of Business and Enterprise editions -- licensed as monthly or annual subscriptions -- offer more advanced feature sets than the Home and Personal editions, with collaborative applications and management tools designed for meeting enterprise security and compliance challenges.

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iPhone XS Max: How much profit does Apple really make on each one sold?

An iPhone XS Max with 256GB of storage is yours for $1,249. But how much does it cost Apple to build? That's a tough question to answer, and that that only Apple really knows the answer to. But don't worry, because Apple is likely making a good $500 profit from it no matter how you cut it!

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Meet Torii, a new IoT botnet far more sophisticated than Mirai variants

The evolving IoT botnet is able to compromise an impressive array of architectures.

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Teenage Apple hacker avoids jail for 'hacky hack hack' attack

The self-proclaimed Apple fan stole roughly 90GB of confidential data from the iPad and iPhone maker.

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Desperate for a win in social, Google app 'Neighbourly' lures urban Indians

Google has put a lot of time and effort into its new crowdsourcing app, which has thoughtful privacy features and uses India as its launchpad. Yet a graveyard of failed products and formidable competitors in the space means that success will not be easy.

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AI is relatively easy, until the enterprise gets involved

As AI matures within enterprises, the emphasis shifts from labor replacement to enterprise-building.

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US sentences to prison its first ATM jackpotter

Argenys Rodriguez got 12 months and a day in prison for making ATMs spit out cash.

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SEC sues Elon Musk over "misleading tweets"

The SEC's complaint seeks to bar Musk from serving as an officer or director of a public company.

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AWS rolls out new EC2 high memory instances, tailored for SAP HANA

The deployment of in-memory databases is becoming more common as enterprises process more real-time data.

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Rimini Street takes Oracle to the Supreme Court over litigation costs

After the high court agreed to consider a technical legality in Oracle v. Rimini Street, both sides made clear there's no love lost between the two companies.

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FBI warns companies about hackers increasingly abusing RDP connections

Millions of RDP endpoints remain exposed online and vulnerable to exploit, dictionary, and brute-force attacks.

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Microsoft is ready to shut down Skype 7 'Classic' in November

Microsoft officials said they have added some of the most requested features to Skype 8, and are now ready to drop Skype 7 Classic in November.

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Here are the best tech deals on eBay's site-wide coupon sale

From smartphones to smartwatches, you can save 15 percent on hundreds of electronics during eBay's site-wide PICKSOON promo code sale. Here's a selection of the best deals we've spotted so far.

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​Linux now dominates Azure

The most popular operating system on Microsoft's Azure cloud today is -- drumroll please -- Linux.

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Microsoft and Salesforce race to offer a single view of customers' data

Microsoft, Adobe and SAP aren't yet revealing technical details of the Open Data Initiative they announced this week. But Azure Data Lake and the Microsoft CDM seem to figure prominently.

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​Pulsar graduates to being an Apache top-level project

The Apache Pulsar open-source, distributed messaging system is destined to be used in many real-time and big data programs.

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Port of San Diego suffers cyber-attack, second port in a week after Barcelona

Cyber-attacks have now been reported at three ports in the last two months

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Most Microsoft Surface laptops regain recommendations from Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports is restoring its 'recommended' designation for the Surface Laptop, Pro and Book 2, but is not awarding it to the Surface Go.

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Google launches VirusTotal Enterprise

Google takes aim at the enterprise incident response market with newly launched tools.

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Kardia EKG after Apple Watch: AliveCor's future of remote patient care

Apple may be bringing electrocardiograms (EKG or ECG) to the masses with Watch Series 4, but EKG innovator AliveCor has more tricks up its sleeve with remote patient monitoring and machine analytics to detect other conditions besides Atrial Fibrillation.

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The long road to an electric airplane motor

A coming wave of electric aviation could open up new "middle mile" travel and delivery sectors

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Phorpiex worm pivots to infect the enterprise with GandCrab ransomware

Internet-facing endpoints are exposing businesses worldwide to a botnet which is now being used in targeted ransomware campaigns.

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Rebel Alliance expands services to Cloudflare CDN

The big cloud vendors are using their breadth and pricing strategies to lock in customers. But there's a growing rebel alliance that now offers zero transfer fees for distributing files. Here's the deal.

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IBM updates Cognos Analytics with automation, more intuitive features

With features like natural language processing, the goal is to make business intelligence more accessible for businesses of all sizes.

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Will there be an October Apple event? Signs point to yes

Once again, David Gewirtz puts on his mystical prognostication hat (okay, fine, he launches Excel) to delve into Apple announcement history. Will we see new Macs, iPads, and whatnot in October? There's a pretty good chance, and we'll even tell you what dates to write in your calendar.

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How automakers are tackling connected vehicle vulnerability management

A new report suggests that front-end security in smart vehicles is improving but the back-end is a different story.

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Uber launches new app and digital wallet in Brazil

The company is making additional investments to increase penetration in its second largest market.

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Fancy Bear LoJax campaign reveals first documented use of UEFI rootkit in the wild

The exploit can be used to patch and tamper with firmware in targeted attacks.

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Researchers find vulnerability in Apple's MDM DEP process

Vulnerability could lead to attackers enrolling malicious devices in enterprise networks, researchers say.

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Cobalt threat group serves up SpicyOmelette in fresh bank attacks

The Cobalt Gang has been connected to the theft of millions of dollars from financial institutions worldwide.

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M1 receives $1.4B buyout offer from current shareholders

M1 shareholders Keppel Corp and Singapore Press Holdings have made a joint offer to buy out the remaining shares in the Singapore telco for an estimated S$1.91 billion (US$1.4 billion).

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Amazon's new retail store is stocked with the site's top rated items

Called Amazon 4-star, the store will only feature items that are rated four stars or above by Amazon's online buyers.

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Mozilla rolls out recovery key option for Firefox accounts

Mozilla added support for TOTP two-factor authentication earlier in May.

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Save 40% on this super tiny and modern Bluetooth earbud

Want an affordable alternative to Apple's AirPods, but don't want to get a dorky-looking Bluetooth headset? Then check out this modern Bluetooth earbud, which is 40 percent off for a limited time.

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New Tobii Pro tool brings eye tracking to UX design

Retailer H&M is using the new Tobii Pro Sprint to better understand how online shoppers navigate their website.

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Over half of consumers want businesses to text them back

The majority of consumers and small business owners prefer to text each other more often, according to a recent survey.

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Chegg to reset passwords for 40 million users after April 2018 hack

Chegg says it discovered the hack last week and that hackers didn't access financial or SSN data.

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Bad bots are stealing data and ruining the customer experience

To protect your company from bad bots, you must first understand what kinds of bots are attacking your firm.

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Oculus launches Quest standalone VR headset, eyes mixed reality future

Using Oculus Quest in a mixed reality demo, Facebook showed off a workplace scenario where real world objects are integrated into VR.

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Uber to pay $148 million in settlment over 2016 data breach and cover-up

The nationwide settlement agreement also requires Uber to implement better data protection policies.

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Don't weep for the founders who took Zuckerberg's money

The creators of WhatsApp and Instagram are held up as heroes once they leave the Facebook fold. Heroes? Or calculators?

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​What happens if you try to take your code out of Linux?

Linux-savvy legal experts from the past and present weigh in on this knotty, open-source licensing matter.

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Password managers can be tricked into believing that malicious Android apps are legitimate

Password managers from Keeper, Dashlane, LastPass, and 1Password found to be vulnerable, study finds.

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Which Amazon Echo to buy? How to pick the best Alexa device for your needs

Amazon now has an entire army of Echo devices. Some listen to you. Some also watch you. Which should you choose? We help you decide.

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Samsung's S Pen is fantastic, but Bixby is another good reason to buy the Galaxy Note 9

Bixby is more than you may think, once you understand what its real purpose is.

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Apple vs Samsung phones: We compare the Galaxy S series and the iPhone XS

Should you buy the latest Apple or Samsung device? And which size? This guide breaks down the factors that matter most to business buyers and consumers alike.

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Google's DeepMind teams with leading 3D game dev platform Unity

Partnership seeks to build ultimate simulator to test artificial intelligence agents

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SMBs face costs of up to $2.5 million after a data breach

Over half of SMBs have now had a taste of how disastrous the consequences of a data breach can be.

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Europe's greenest supercomputer: Why energy-efficient HPC is on the rise

MareNostrum 4 Power9 is Europe's greenest supercomputer but it has nothing to do with being situated in a 19th-century church.

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Android spyware in development plunders WhatsApp data, private conversations

The malware's code hosts a variety of surveillance functions and is available to the public.

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Infinite Campus DDoS attack impedes access to student data

The latest DDoS wave to strike the system is "50 times greater" than previous attacks.

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Vivaldi browsers adds synchronisation and speed in the upgrade to version 2.0

The most configurable "power user" web browser just got a lot better with the launch of version 2.0. The main attraction is synchronisation with end-to-end encryption, but long-term users may also enjoy dramatically faster start-up speeds.

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Ex-NSA employee gets 5.5 years in prison for taking home classified info

Former NSA employee suspected to be at the heart of the NSA-Kaspersky saga sentenced today.

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Monero bug could have allowed hackers to steal massive amounts of cryptocurrency

Bug was discovered after a user posted a theoretical question on Reddit.

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Square's payroll service now has a mobile app

The app complements Square's overall suite of small business services, especially for its customers that operate a mostly mobile business.

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New Linux 'Mutagen Astronomy' security flaw impacts Red Hat and CentOS distros

Red Hat team provides mitigations, promises kernel updates.

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Who will win the future of payments?

The commerce experiences of tomorrow will revolutionize the payments landscape, making payments the invisible, invaluable part of a customer-first experience.

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Deal alert: Get Ring Video Doorbell 2 with Chime and 1-year of cloud recordings for $150

Watch over your home office from your phone, tablet, or PC with Ring Video Doorbell 2. It's now available via a discounted bundle at Costco Wholesale for $149.99. There's also a similar deal on a refurbished Ring Video Doorbell 2. Here's what you need to know about both sales.

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Google proposes data privacy framework ahead of US Senate hearing

Google posits that companies should be transparent about the types of personal information collected and comply with appropriate limits to data collection.

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​Fedora Linux 29 beta rolls out

The latest version of Fedora Linux is coming out.

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​Linus Torvalds and Linux Code of Conduct: 7 myths debunked

No, protesting programmers are not removing code from Linux; there are no purges of politically incorrect Linux kernel developers. And Linus Torvalds is coming back.

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uBlock Origin gets option to block all JavaScript execution by default

New ad blocker update boosts users' privacy and security with JS execution master switch.

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LinkedIn launches Talent Insights for HR analytics, talent planning

LinkedIn's target market is HR folks to talent and acquisition managers. The data is designed to be quick, actionable and real-time.

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New Apple connection problem? iPhone XS users report subpar cell and Wi-Fi reception

Eight years after Apple's iPhone 4 Antennagate fiasco, we are seeing complaints from iPhone XS and XS Max users that Wi-Fi and cellular reception and performance isn't living up to expectations. FCC lab test results appear to lend credence to these concerns.

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Rachio 3 Smart Sprinkler becomes first to add Apple HomeKit support

Smart sprinklers are a great way to save money watering, help the environment, and ensure you have the optimal care for your yard. The Rachio 3 now has Apple HomeKit support so you can control it with Siri.

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Salesforce, AWS plot more private connections, integration points

The partnership between Salesforce and AWS is evolving to give mutual customers more private connection points for analytics and data sharing.

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Security researcher fined for hacking hotel WiFi and putting passwords on the internet

Tencent security researcher hacks hotel without authorization and publishes a blog post about it containing unredacted information.

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Amazon computing device satisfaction fares well, Dell falls, Windows gains, says ACSI

The American Consumer Sentiment Index highlights a bevy of moving parts in the PC industry, but overall Microsoft's frequent update approach to Windows is paying off.

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FinancialForce pumps Einstein Analytics into latest platform update

The company detailed the new features as part of its Fall 2018 release during Salesforce's Dreamforce event being held in San Francisco this week.

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Salesforce launches Customer 360, aims to integrate all your data, applications

Salesforce's idea to provide a 360 degree view of the customer isn't exactly new, but the company maintains its execution will be different. Here's the master plan.

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Symantec accountancy audit uncovers customer transaction recorded as revenue

Symantec says that some previous financial results will need to be revised.

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Man gets two years in prison for sabotaging US Army servers with 'logic bomb'

Server sabotage resulted in 17 days of delay in US Army Reserve pay.

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Vulnerable open source component adoption skyrockets in the enterprise

Researchers say that despite high-profile breaches caused by irresponsible open-source software use, the enterprise is still failing to control corporate network security.

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Watch: Wall-crawling robot artist turns building into art

A group of Estonian technologists use a giant printer capable of producing images at building scale

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HERMES suitcases revive phone networks after natural disasters

The autonomous network can be transported to disaster-stricken areas in only two suitcases.

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UK issues first-ever GDPR notice in connection to Facebook data scandal

Canadian firm AggregateIQ, linked to the Facebook & Cambridge Analytica data scandal, is the first to be put on notice.

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Jaybird Tarah announced: $100 wireless waterproof earbuds for training and fitness

Today's smartwatches and GPS sports watches support offline music playback so a Bluetooth headset is required to workout without a phone. Most phones also no longer have a headset jack so wireless is the way to go.

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IBM launches pretrained Watson packs for industries

The aim is to prepackage and pretrain Watson for various verticals such as agriculture, real estate and manufacturing.

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Domain registrar oversteps taking down Zoho domain, impacts over 30Mil users

Domain registrar bungle takes down the website of one of the world's largest companies.

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SHEIN fashion retailer announces breach affecting 6.42 million users

Hack took place somewhere in June, but the company only discovered the breach in late August.

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Walmart implements IBM's blockchain for food traceability

The aim is to track food from farm to store in near real time using blockchain's distributed ledger system.

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Microsoft to bring multi-user virtualization to Windows and Office with Windows Virtual Desktop service

Microsoft's new Windows Desktop Virtualization service will allow enterprise subscription customers to run Windows, Office and third-party apps in Azure virtual machines.

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US ISP RCN stores customer passwords in cleartext

Company is investigating the issue with customer support representatives having access to users' passwords in cleartext.

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Slack buys Astro, eyes tighter email integration on its platform

Astro makes the popular Astrobot plugin that lets users check their email and calendar from directly within Slack.

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It's not about devices for Amazon and Alexa, it's about attention

The new devices got all the attention at last week's event, but Amazon is more interested in getting your attention.

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Apple MacOS Mojave zero-day privacy bypass vulnerability revealed

The latest update of the Mac operating system is expected to hit today -- potentially alongside a zero-day bug which circumvents OS privacy controls.

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Microsoft starts rolling out Office 2019 for Windows and Mac

Microsoft is starting to roll out Office 2019, its on-premises Office suite for Windows and Mac, and will be delivering the Office 2019 servers within the coming weeks.

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Apple completes Shazam purchase, takes app ad free

Shazam's models are likely to make Apple's services smarter in areas behind music.

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Microsoft tries again to win developers with new Cortana Enterprise Skills Kit

Microsoft is working on a new enterprise-focused skills kit for Cortana, based on its Bot Framework, which can be used to build skills and agents for business use.

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How to decide: Picking the 2018 iPhone that's right for you

This year, Apple is selling a ton of iPhone models. The differences between all those models is less than obvious. In our 2018 edition of our iPhone decider article, we'll help you choose.

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Apple Watch's Walkie-Talkie is practically useless

It's a great idea, but the implementation is just plain awful.

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​Amazon's Hindi website shows how badly e-commerce needs India's non-English-speaking shoppers

Having squeezed the last drops from the country's English speakers, e-commerce outfits in India now realise that it is Indian language users who will provide the bulk of the boom that is yet to come.

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iPhone XS launch: 3 days in the life of an Apple store

To observe the atmosphere in an Apple store at launch time, I went to the same store three days in a row at the same time. The people-watching was sublime.

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Salesforce, Apple forge iOS mobile app development partnership

Salesforce's mobile app for CRM will be revamped with native features for Apple's iOS platform.

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Adobe launches AI Assist, weaves it through analytics, clouds

AI Assist took three years of development with the aim of bringing quality insights across multiple Adobe clouds.

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Microsoft readies previews of Azure Digital Twins, Azure Sphere secure-edge service

Microsoft is starting to test a new Azure digital-twinning service, while also making generally available its Azure Sphere and Microsoft IoT Central services.

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What's next for Teams, Microsoft's 'fastest growing business app' in company history

Microsoft is building more industry-specific and role-based features into Teams, as well as adding more meeting capabilities and AI-powered options to the anchor of its Office 365 suite.

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Microsoft to unify search across Windows 10, Office 365 and Bing with Microsoft Search

Microsoft is both refining and expanding its unified search mission, so as to deliver a single smart search box across Windows 10, Office, Bing, Edge and more.

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Microsoft staggers rollout of Surface Hub 2, with hardware in 2019; new software in 2020

Microsoft's new plan is to launch Surface Hub 2 in two phases, with the new conferencing system hardware coming in Q2 2019 and the new system software for it in 2020.

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The big data odyssey of SQL Server 2019, and more data and AI news from Microsoft Ignite

Ignite, Microsoft's annual IT Pro and Developer confab kicks off today, with a slew of news in the data, analytics and AI areas of the company's stack, both in-cloud and on-premises.

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Can cloud storage replace your onsite storage?

Cloud providers offer lots of different storage services, but none of them are ideal for most applications - which is keeping enterprise storage vendors in business. Will cloud vendors ever be able to replace on-site storage for critical apps?

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Pennsylvania Senate Democrats paid $700,000 to recover from ransomware attack

Microsoft was paid $703,697 to help Pennsylvania Senate Democrats rebuild IT systems after 2017 ransomware incident.

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What Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Google believe about themselves can explain a lot

The stories these companies tell themselves are the key to understanding how they behave.

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YubiKey 5: First multi-protocol security keys with FIDO2 support

Replace weak, outdated password-based methods with strong hardware-based authentication.

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Samsung Galaxy Watch: How to adjust settings and configure your personal preferences

The Samsung Galaxy Watch is a fantastic smartwatch and to get the most out of it you have to dive into the settings and configure the watch to your preferences. We are going to help you out in this article.

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Two Japanese space robots land on asteroid 200 million miles away

The Hayabusa 2 mission is using ion engines and other tech straight out of sci fi to explore an astroid

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How easy is it to break the new Apple iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max?

While the new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max seem to be tougher than the iPhone X, glass is still glass.

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Freelance workers targeted in new malware campaign

Malicious macros are being spread in a campaign targeting job seekers on freelance and casual work platforms.

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Siemens launches innovation center for livestock in Brazil

A world-first for the company, the facility will focus on technologies supporting meat production processes.

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Woman pleads guilty to hacking police surveillance cameras

A chase around Europe led to the extradition of a 28-year-old who infected police equipment with ransomware days before Trump's inauguration.

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The biggest insights and trends in digital transformation for 2019

Many organizations have embarked on the journey of digital transformation over the last several years to sustainably reinvent themselves in modern terms. The first crop of lessons learned should now be evident but have been challenging to isolate and capture until recently. It's also clear that those lessons learned have been hard won, so we must build on them. Here's what we know so far.

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Adwind Trojan circumvents antivirus software to infect your PC

A spam campaign spreading the RAT uses a number of tricks to fool signature-based antivirus solutions.

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Western Digital resolves year-old password bypass bug in My Cloud NAS devices

The vulnerability can be exploited to give unauthenticated hackers full access to a device.

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Telstra and Optus call for clarity in anti-encryption laws

The big telcos don't want their operations disrupted. They want more consultation, and protection for their downstream customers.

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Singapore fines Grab-Uber $9.5M over anti-competitive merger

Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore says the ride-sharing operator adopted anti-competitive actions following its merger with Uber's regional operations, and fines each company more than S$6 million for the infringement.

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Google secretly logs users into Chrome whenever they log into a Google site

Browser maker faces backlash for failing to inform users about Chrome Sync behavioral change.

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Firefox bug crashes your browser and sometimes your PC

Bug affects Firefox on Mac, Linux, and Windows, but not Android.

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The race to ruin the internet is upon us

Australia versus China versus Europe: It's a potent combination of ineptness and maliciousness, and the internet is about to change.

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Apple Watch 4, Amazon Echo devices, Google rumors (MobileTechRoundup show #445)

Apple's new iPhones and watches are now available, Nintendo Switch Online is up, Amazon announced a ton of new devices, and Google is launching new devices soon.

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Google Pixelbook Chrome OS tablet, aka Nocturne, likely coming in October

Google is holding a hardware event in October and in addition to the rumored Pixel 3 devices we are likely to see some kind of Chrome OS device or two. Kevin Tofel did some digging and made some intriguing discoveries.

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There is no one role for AI or data science: this is a team effort

'How code-to-cash works in in any ERP is not something that you can teach a data scientist in in two days.'

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I tried to buy a sweater on H&M's site, Firefox told me to stop

You think all your favorite retail sites are secure? It appears they might not be.

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Wendy's faces lawsuit for unlawfully collecting employee fingerprints

Restaurant chain faces class-action lawsuit in Illinois for breaking BIPA state law.

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Hacker gets a whopping 14 years in prison for running Scan4You service

Ruslan Bondars run a "VirusTotal-for-crooks" operation from 2009 to 2017.

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Twitter notifies developers about API bug that shared DMs with wrong devs

Twitter said the API bug was active between May 2017 and early September 2018, for nearly 16 months.

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New Virobot ransomware will also log keystrokes, add PC to a spam botnet

Virobot will use locally installed Outlook instances to spam other users and spread a copy of itself.

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iPhone XS and XS Max reveals some battery surprises

A teardown of Apple's new iPhone XS reveals a battery that's smaller than in last year's iPhone X.

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Thousands of WordPress sites backdoored with malicious code

Malicious code redirects users to tech support scams, some of which use new "evil cursor" Chrome bug.

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Best accessories for your iPhone XS or XS Max

Here are the very best accessories to help you get the most from your new iPhone.

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AI: The view from the Chief Data Science Office

It's challenging to get data scientists where you need them. And if you're managing an AI project, better be prepared for handling moving targets. These are some of the results of a survey of chief data scientists and analytics officers that we recently concluded.

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The Death of the Gods, book review: Power in the digital age

Demos researcher Carl Miller details how the internet has brought about profound power shifts that reach into every aspect of our lives.

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After riches and jail, Belarusian ex-hacker's life lesson? 'Don't steal from Americans. Ever'

ZDNet talks to a former infamous hacker whose "mostly true" book offers a glimpse into the minds of Eastern Europe's cybercriminals.

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Small, flexible plaster uses ultrasound waves to monitor blood pressure inside your body

The readings might be more accurate, too, considering how our blood pressure tends to rise in the doctor's office.

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Brazilian mobile market slows in H1 2018

Factors ranging from the diesel crisis to the dollar hike prompted a consumption slowdown, says IDC

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With bionic mouse, robots fulfill ultimate destiny: Playthings for cats

Sure it's gimmicky (so was the Roomba when it debuted) but it just might be the next home robotics category to take off

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SingHealth data breach reveals several 'inadequate' security measures

Investigation into the July 2018 incident reveals tardiness in raising the alarm, use of weak administrative passwords, and an unpatched workstation that enabled hackers to breach the system as early as August last year.

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Cisco releases fixes for remote code execution flaws in Webex Network Recording Player

The bugs could be weaponized to hijack vulnerable software and cause untold damage to victim machines.

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Google Zero Day team discloses unpatched Microsoft Jet RCE vulnerability

Exploit of the security flaw can lead to the remote execution of malicious code.

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Singapore to offer bug bounty, set up Asean cybersecurity centre

Singapore government will launch a bug bounty initiative by end-2018, when local and international hackers will be invited to test systems for vulnerabilities, as well as a cybersecurity hub next year to facilitate collaboration and training efforts amongst Asean country members.

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Alibaba looks to arm hotels, cities with its AI technology

Chinese internet giant is touting the use of artificial intelligence technology to arm drivers with real-time data on road conditions as well as robots in the hospitality sector, where they can deliver meals and laundry to guests.

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AdGuard resets all user passwords after credential stuffing attack

Attackers gained access to some AdGuard accounts but company can't tell how many.

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Canadian retailer's servers storing 15 years of user data sold on Craigslist

NCIX did not wipe or encrypt servers when it closed down and filed for bankruptcy in 2017. Their customers' data is now peddled online by Richmond-based individual.

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Bug hunters fail third year in a row to get top prize in Android hacking program

Bug hunters earned over $3 million in rewards for security flaws found in the Android OS since 2015.

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Microsoft is adding 'commercial' LinkedIn revenues to its 'Commercial Cloud' tally

Microsoft's self-defined 'commercial cloud' bucket just got bigger, with the inclusion of a significant portion of LinkedIn revenues added to the metric.

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Meet Amazon's new Echo devices and Alexa hardware: Prices, features, release dates

Amazon has announced several -- and we do mean several -- new Alexa devices for you to consider. Here's what you need to know, including what they can do and when you can buy them.

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Adobe buys Marketo for $4.75 billion

The deal is Adobe's largest ever and puts the company in more direct competition with Oracle and Salesforce.

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Skype calling coming to Amazon Alexa devices later this year

Microsoft and Amazon are working together to bring Skype calling to Alexa-powered devices, which brings into question, again, where Microsoft is going with Cortana.

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Yes, Amazon, I've always wanted to talk to my 1980s microwave

Some of Amazon's newest gadgets are wonderfully iinfantilizing, showing humans just how useless we are.

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Microsoft's Windows Admin Center graphical management tool version 1809 is generally available

Microsoft's latest version of its Windows Admin Center, designed for managing the coming Windows Server 2019 release, is already available for download.

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Vonage buys contact center software firm NewVoiceMedia

Vonage sees the acquisition as a way to forge stronger integrations and go-to-market relationships with CRM providers, namely Salesforce.

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French cyber-security agency open-sources CLIP OS, a security hardened OS

CLIP OS 4 and CLIP OS 5 now available to everyone on GitHub, not just French cyber-spies.

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Walmart deploys 17,000 Oculus Go headsets to train its employees

Walmart said it is using the headsets to train within three key areas: new technology, compliance, and soft skills like empathy and customer service.

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Cloudflare ends CAPTCHA challenges for Tor users

Company launches new Cloudflare Onion Service. Only Tor Browser 8 and Tor Browser for Android users will see less or no CAPTCHAs.

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This desk organizer has a sexy Qi secret, and it's on sale

Organize your pens and scissors...check. Charge your phone...also check!

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Amazon poised to roll out more Alexa-enabled hardware today

The new devices include more home gadgets like a microwave.

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Alexa's next move: Amazon unwraps its latest devices

At Amazon headquarters in Seattle, the tech giant is debuting new products and features related to its device business.

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Intel, Alibaba launch a joint edge computing platform

The announcement was one of several ways Intel is partnering with the Chinese cloud giant, which has growing global ambitions.

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Chinese police arrest hacker who sold data of millions of hotel guests on the dark web

Hacker was selling 141.5GB of data from Huazhu Hotels Group. He also attempted to blackmail the hotel chain to pay for its own data.

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Mophie 30-day wireless challenge: Staying powered up without a cable connection

Mophie makes a number of products to keep your device charged up and available for use all the time. It has a few options to provide wireless charging and for the last couple of months I've tried to only use wireless to keep my smartphones powered up.

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This Russian botnet mimics your click to prevent Android device factory resets

Black Rose Lucy has turned up as a new offering in the Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) space.

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Remove yourself from people search sites and erase your online presence

Here is a step-by-step guide to reducing your digital footprint online, whether you want to lock down data or vanish entirely.

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Medical marijuana: How IT can spark the budding cannabis industry

This fast-growing but difficult-to-navigate vertical needs IT providers. But how many will cater to a $20 billion industry that the feds consider illegal?

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Harvesting marijuana with robots is hard. Here's how one company figured it out.

The legal hemp industry is booming. Like many commercial ag sectors, automation is coming.

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NSS Labs files lawsuit over alleged CrowdStrike, Symantec, ESET product test conspiracy

The antitrust case claims that the cybersecurity vendors have conspired to prevent independent, unbiased tests of their antivirus products.

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Adobe releases patch out of schedule to squash critical code execution bug

The vulnerabilities resolved in the update impact both Microsoft Windows and Apple MacOS systems.

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Equifax fined £500,000 over customer data breach

If the security incident had taken place after GDPR came into play, the fine may have been far higher.

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Privacy advocates have failed to engage on My Health Record

Many of the concerns about Australia's centralised digital health records are real, but the abstract, hand-wavey arguments aren't persuading people outside the digital privacy bubble.

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Asean countries to establish framework for cybersecurity collaboration

All 10 Asean members concur on the need for a formal cybersecurity mechanism to facilitate coordination efforts across the region, outlining cyber diplomacy, policy, and operational issues.

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Google releases final developer preview of Flutter

Flutter aims to help developers build native app interfaces for both iOS and Android.

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Google Cloud rolls out security feature for container images

The new Container Registry vulnerability scanning feature should bring more stability to the early stages of the CI/CD process, Google says.

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Hackers swipe card numbers from local government payment portals

FireEye report confirms previous rumors of Click2Gov portal hacks.

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EmTech MIT: How AI and biomedical innovations are transforming health care

Emerald's little wireless box that can monitor movement and physiological signs wirelessly even through walls was just one of several medical innovations at this year's conference.

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Red Hat reports mixed second quarter results

The company missed revenue estimates and its guidance fell below Wall Street targets.

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Zaif cryptocurrency exchange loses $60 million in recent hack

The Osaka-based cryptocurrency exchange discovered hack two days ago, and is working to secure funds to reimburse affected users.

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Google Home Mini was the most popular smart speaker in Q2

Apple's HomePod didn't break into the top five, but it was the Q2 market leader in terms of revenue.

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Zero Trust technology works; excuses don't

Security implementation has never been a technology problem -- it's a management, leadership, and ownership issue.

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Salesforce intros Einstein Voice, an AI voice assistant for enterprises

With Einstein Voice, users will be able to verbally talk to the Salesforce platform to perform a range of administrative tasks, such as note dictation and data entry.

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Access to over 3,000 backdoored sites sold on Russian hacking forum

Researchers blow the lid on MagBO, a marketplace for selling access to hacked sites

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With Einstein Voice, conversational CRM is about to go mainstream

With Dreamforce around the corner, Salesforce jumps into the voice assistants race with Einstein Voice.

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Jack Ma: Time for manufacturing to undergo 'new' transformation

Industry will need to brace itself for upcoming threats as well as opportunities, and focus on delivering "experiences" so skills won't be replaced by machines, says Alibaba's co-founder Jack Ma.

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Bug in Bitcoin code also opens smaller cryptocurrencies to attacks

Simple denial of service bug can crash unpatched Bitcoin network nodes and may also affect many Bitcoin-based cryptocurrency offshoots.

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iOS 12 CarPlay saved my marriage with Google Maps

Apple's latest operating system update for iPhone fixes an important long-standing issue on CarPlay. But it needs to go further.

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Knowledge graphs beyond the hype: Getting knowledge in and out of graphs and databases

What exactly are knowledge graphs, and what's with all all the hype about them? Learning to tell apart hype from reality, defining different types of graphs, and picking the right tools and database for your use case is essential if you want to be like the Airbnbs, Amazons, Googles, and LinkedIns of the world.

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Fitbit launches Fitbit Care platform for health care plans, expands Humana partnership

The effort is ​a big move into recurring revenue and using ​Fitbit's data to become more of a software provider in the health care ecosystem.

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Magecart claims another victim in Newegg merchant data theft

Researchers have found another example of Magecart's covert activities only 24 hours after the last incident concerning the prolific hacking group.

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Sapho aims to use machine learning to save employees more time navigating systems

Sapho's Employee Experience Portal plans to use machine learning to monitor how an employee uses business applications and then dish out the most relevant information to them.

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Qualcomm advances IoT strategy in Brazil with lab launch

The Sorocaba-based facility is currently working on a first project focused on public security.

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Moment anamorphic lens and photo case for Samsung Galaxy Note 9: Make cool movies with your phones

Smartphone cameras today are all great, but to get to the next level there are some advanced camera accessories you should consider. Moment's newest lens helps bring out your cinematic creativity and may lead to serious filmmaking with just a smartphone.

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Buying an Apple Watch 4 now for EKG and AFib features may leave you heartbroken

Don't confuse announcing with shipping.

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Should I install iOS 12 on my old iPhone or iPad?

iOS 12 supports devise going all the way back to the iPhone 5S and iPad Air, both released at the end of 2013. But does iOS 12 put a spring in the step of these old devices, or will it just slow them down to the point of making them essentially obsolete?

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Alibaba to launch own AI chip next year

​Chinese internet giant sets up a semiconductor company and unveils plans to release its own artificial intelligence processor, as it looks to boost support for its cloud and Internet of Things businesses.

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For Ford's developer ecosystem, the rubber is about to hit the road

After spending five years building an automotive developer ecosystem, Ford is about to see its open source SmartDeviceLink platform put to the test.

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Hackers peddle thousands of air miles on the Dark Web for pocket money

Underground sellers are offering stolen air miles for a fraction of their true cost to the detriment of their true owners.

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Credential stuffing attacks cause heartache for the financial sector

Over 30 billion login attempts using this attack technique have been recorded in less than a year.

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Mirai botnet authors avoid prison after "substantial assistance" to the FBI

Mirai botnet authors go from black hats to white hats.

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State Department reveals data breach, employee information exposed

The data breach took place due to a compromised email system belonging to the department.

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This Windows file may be secretly hoarding your passwords and emails

A little-known Windows feature will create a file that stores text extracted from all the emails and plaintext-files found on your PC, which sometimes may reveal passwords or private conversations.

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IBM launches tools to detect AI fairness, bias and open sources some code

Bias detection and black box transparency is limiting AI deployments at scale, argues IBM.

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Alibaba Cloud, IOC launch Olympic Broadcasting Services Cloud

The Alibaba, IOC effort revolves around scaling content distribution across multiple channels.

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Google gives admins more insight into employees' G Suite use

In addition to rolling out Work Insights, Google on Tuesday announced the general availability of the investigation tool in the G Suite security center.

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​Linus Torvalds is doing a good and brave thing

Linus Torvalds, Linux's creator, has decided he needs to change his ways and how the Linux community works together. Now, if only other technology leaders would follow his lead.

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Microsoft adds two more Dynamics 365 AI apps to its roadmap

Microsoft is adding new Dynamics 365 AI-infused applications, plus two mixed-reality Dynamics 365 applications, to the family with the coming October 2018 Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP releases.

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Twitter brings back chronological timelines

Some Twitter users have complained about seeing "the best" tweets in a Facebook-style timeline and want to return to the old days when they were in chronological order. Twitter now offers that option, and plans to make it easier to switch between the two views..

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Symantec offers free website spoofing protection for US midterm elections

After Microsoft and Facebook, now Symantec, too, offers free security tools for election officials and midterm candidates.

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Scorecard: Humans vs. Robots, which species is winning?

Make no mistake, the robots are keeping score. Here's the latest tally in the robots v. humans matchup.

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Expandable ads can be entry points for site hacks

Researcher finds XSS vulnerabilities in iframe busters, scripts that power expandable ads that grow and cover a large area of the page.

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Broadcaster ABS-CBN customer data stolen, sent to Russian servers

Payment skimmers are reportedly stealing information belonging to customers of the ABS-CBN store and a familiar hacking group may be to blame.

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iPhone XS smartphone beauty really is only skin deep

So, you bought a beautiful new iPhone XR or iPhone XS Max. Are you planning to use it without a protective case? Then you're living dangerously.

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iOS 12 tells you everything - well, almost everything - you need to know about your iPhone's battery

iOS 12 offers you much more information about your iPhone or iPad's battery than previously available, but there are still gaps that could do with filling.

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It's not the jobs AI is destroying that bother me, it's the ones that are growing

There are tragedies in a new list prepared by LinkedIn. Some of them, you might think, are in the section that shows which jobs have grown in the AI era.

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WiFi anywhere, anytime - traveling internationally with Skyroam's Solis

Practical experiences with a 4G hotspot that got me online anywhere there was any cellular signal

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Mozilla releases Firefox Reality, its web browser for VR

The browser is now available in the Viveport, Oculus, and Daydream app stores.

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NetApp buys StackPointCloud, launches Kubernetes as a service

The move gives NetApp more of a DevOps spin on multi-cloud deployments.

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"Lawful intercept" Pegasus spyware found deployed in 45 countries

At least ten operators of Pegasus spyware have deployed the malware outside their country's border, new Citizen Lab report finds.

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MongoDB server leaks 11 million user records from e-marketing service

Database has now been secured. Server was also ransomed by a criminal group back in June.

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Bizarre botnet infects your PC to scrub away cryptocurrency mining malware

The peculiar botnet, based on Satori, compromises your devices for the sole purpose of cleaning them up.

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Lawyers on the automation chopping block as AI gets its JD

This early stage startup's AI platform reads, writes, problem solves, and reasons like a lawyer

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GovPayNow payment portal may have exposed over 14 million customer records

Names, addresses, and financial data were reportedly compromised due to lax security practices.

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Facebook can block hate speech, even if it's not illegal, court rules

Although an anti-immigrant comment doesn't break German law, Facebook can still delete it.

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Salesforce's Quip adds Slides, a collaborative spin on that deck no one is reading

Quip's Slides rounds out the Salesforce's productivity play. A familiar interface with multiple collaboration tools may make those internal decks a bit more functional.

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Cloudflare IPFS Gateway boosts decentralized website development

The new solution enables developers to create websites which are based on peer-to-peer, distributed technologies.

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UK watchdog has not issued any GDPR data breach-related fines yet

UK official says ICO has been receiving 500 calls a week to the agency's breach reporting line since May 25, the day the new GDPR regulation entered into effect.

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900,000 Australians opt out of My Health Record

Fewer people are opting out of Australia's centralised digital health record system than expected, but critics are still slamming the "poorly controlled" and rarely used access rules.

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Amazon reportedly plans to roll out more Alexa-enabled hardware

The new devices include more home gadgets like a microwave, according to CNBC.

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US lawmakers introduce bill to fight cybersecurity workforce shortage

Report claims US public and private sectors had over 300,000 cybersecurity-related job openings between April 2017 and March 2018.

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Facebook bolsters security protections for candidates, elected officials

A new ​pilot program offers upgraded cybersecurity protections to accounts associated with candidates and elected officials.

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New XBash malware combines ransomware, coinminer, botnet, and worm features in deadly combo

New XBash malware strain targets both Linux and Windows servers

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​Linux adds a code of conduct for programmers

In the aftermath of Linus Torvalds apologizing for how he's been running the Linux kernel community, Linux has adopted a new code of conduct. But some now claim this means Linux is being taken over by social justice warriors.

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Oracle delivers mixed Q1 results

The company beat targets for EPS but missed on revenue.

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Apple iOS 12 security update tackles Safari spoofing, data leaks, kernel memory flaws

The iPad and iPhone maker's iOS 12 launch is accompanied by a slew of security updates for various products.

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Stripe extends its infrastructure to in-person shopping

With Stripe Terminal, online businesses will be able to accept in-person payments

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Amazon launches Storefronts portal to court SMBs

Storefront will feature a curated selection of more than one million products from nearly 20,000 US-based small businesses.

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Microsoft Managed Desktop plan turns Windows 10 device management over to Microsoft

The rumors were true: Microsoft's MMD service, which officially starts rolling out today, is a subscription service via which Microsoft provisions, deploys and manages companies' Windows 10 devices.

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iOS 12 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch is out, but should you install it?

Today is the day that Apple releases iOS 12. Within hours this will be running on millions of iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices, but should you rush out to install it or wait for those inevitable patches to land?

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Microsoft is bringing Cosmos DB to Azure Stack and Azure Sphere

Microsoft is planning to bring its Cosmos DB NoSQL database to its hybrid-computing and secure microcontroller platforms as part of its 'intelligent cloud, intelligent edge' strategy.

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Delivery app Rappi becomes latest Latin tech unicorn

The company is estimated to have reached a valuation of $1.1 billion following a new funding round.

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Facebook bolsters bug bounty program with rewards for user token exposure

If you submit a valid case of Facebook user access token leaks, you are eligible for a financial reward.

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iOS 12 features you should try today

If you're brave enough to download and install iOS 12 today, here are some of the new features that you should check out and explore.

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Hackers hijack surveillance camera footage with 'Peekaboo' zero-day vulnerability

The previously unknown security flaw in Nuuo software is thought to impact hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide.

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Infor buys Vivonet to bolster hospitality portfolio

Vivonet supplies point-of-sale software to a range of businesses in the hospitality space.

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Ordinary WiFi devices can be used to detect suspicious luggage, bombs, weapons

Researchers turn ordinary WiFi devices in rudimentary scanners that can identify potentially dangerous objects hidden inside bags or luggage.

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Apple's first iPhone XS ad is a grand illusion, or is it a deception?

See if you can spot what's artfully concealed in Apple's first push for its exciting new phones.

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What to do with the data? The evolution of data platforms in a post big data world (Part 2)

Thought leader Esteban Kolsky takes on the big question: What will data platforms look like now that big data's hype is over and big data "solutions" are at hand? This is the second part beckoning.

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Microsoft provides preliminary report on its September 4 cloud outage

Microsoft will be crediting customers affected by its September 4 cloud outage and will work to improve its cloud storage resiliency, according to its preliminary analysis of the incident.

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Salesforce outlines Financial Services Cloud roadmap, single view of customer test bed

Salesforce's Financial Services Cloud aims to bridge various integration points and technology and business silos to give customers a unified experience.

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The awesome 500GB Samsung T5 portable SSD drops to $100

Previously $190, the T5 drive is down to its lowest price ever.

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Juniper unveils Contrail Edge Cloud for managing services at the edge

The new orchestration product is designed to address the physical and power constraints of the network edge.

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iOS 12: How to get your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch ready for the biggest update yet

Here's what you need to do to ensure that your upgrade to iOS 12 goes as smoothly as possible and you don't lose any data.

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How the Windows EternalBlue exploit lives on and why it refuses to die

Cryptojacking, endless infection loops, and more are ensuring that the leaked NSA tool continues to disrupt the enterprise worldwide.

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Self-driving grocery delivery gains ground ... in Oklahoma?

Far from the testing beds of the California Bay Area, a local grocery chain and an autonomous delivery company ink a major deal

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How scooters jumpstarted the city of LA's new developer initiative

When Uber and Lyft hit the streets, US cities weren't quite ready for it. Now, cities like LA are honing their digital skills to be ready for the second wave of mobility-as-a-service.

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Shared spectrum: What's next and why it matters for businesses

The FCC is making progress on opening up the Citizens Broadband Radio Service, which can give enterprises more secure, reliable service.

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GAW Miners CEO earns prison time for defrauding customers of $9 million

The company operated a Ponzi scheme under the guise of cryptocurrency mining.

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Amazon investigates claims staff sold customer data, wiped poor reviews for a fee

Reports allege that Amazon employees are accepting bribes in exchange for confidential customer and sales information.

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​Linus Torvalds takes a break from Linux

Linux's creator is stepping back from his Linux kernel work.

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Ransomware attack blacks out screens at Bristol Airport

Airport officials decline to pay ransom demand and manually restore all affected systems. Functionality has been restored to all screens after two days.

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Three new iPhones and an Apple Watch, e Foundation OS, Pixelbook 2 leaks (MobileTechRoundup show #444)

Apple held its annual iPhone event this past week and as a result Kevin and I spent most of the podcast talking about the three new iPhones and the Apple Watch Series 4.

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EmTech MIT: Making factory robots smarter and safer

Move fast and break things doesn't work so well on the factory floor. Startup Veo Robotics is trying a different approach, using tested technologies to add perception to existing industrial robots.

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Critical infrastructure will have to operate if there's malware on it or not

Retired US Air Force cyber-security expert shares his thoughts on the future of critical infrastructure security.

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Why all three new iPhones will be a success

Apple has cleverly positioned each of its new iPhones for a particular mindset. And new research shows just how little movement there is these days away from a particular brand.

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Nvidia researchers generate synthetic brain MRI images for AI research

The research could provide a way to generate larger data sets for training AI systems that analyze brain tumors.

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Nasty piece of CSS code crashes and restarts iPhones

Vulnerability most likely affects any iOS and macOS app that uses the WebKit rendering engine to display web pages. Apple is investigating.

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EmTech MIT: Tackling "tough tech"

A start-up accelerator founded at MIT is working to make sure that the innovative work being done at universities makes it out of the lab.

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Six steps to DevOps success, analyzed

Getting to the ultimate state of DevOps -- automated delivery processes and self-service -- is a rocky road, not a superhighway.

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EmTech MIT: Giving machines common sense

We have lot of AI technologies, but no real artificial intelligence. MIT's Josh Tenenbaum leads a moonshot effort to close this gap by reverse engineering how children learn.

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Strata NYC 2018: AI, data governance, containers and the production-ready data lake

Another Strata Data Conference in NYC has come and gone. Here's a roll-up of the news from and during the show, organized by the themes that emerged.

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FragmentSmack vulnerability also affects Windows, but Microsoft patched it

FragmentStack can drive CPU usage up through the roof, jamming servers bombarded with malformed IP packets. Just the ideal vulnerability for DDoS attacks on Windows servers.

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Online sports are about to get actual real-time streaming

When you watch football, soccer, baseball, or any sport with online streaming, you're actually watching video that's seconds behind. Limelight thinks it has the answer to this annoyance.

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US loses extradition battle with Russia for Bitcoin kingpin

Around 95 percent of all ransomware payments were laundered through Vinnik's BTC-e platform.

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HP eyes custom orthotics market to push 3D printing systems

HP has teamed up with Go 4-D, a player in the medical orthotics industry, to distribute its FitStation platform around North America.

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Thomson Reuters seeks tech startups in Brazil

The company is looking for ventures working on artificial intelligence and blockchain applied to the tax and foreign trade segments.

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Blockchain betting app mocks competitor for getting hacked. Gets hacked four days later

Hacker steals roughly $125,000 from blockchain-based online gambling app by exploiting vulnerability in EOS smart contract (game's source code).

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iPhone XS mocked by Huawei for being so very boring

You can always guarantee that some brand will follow an iPhone unveiling with derision.

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Apple Watch 4 vs Samsung Galaxy Watch vs Polar Vantage: Comparing their heart monitoring capabilities

Today's newest watches employ advanced heart rate monitoring and analysis to help us better understand our hearts and obtain early warnings of possible serious health issues.

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​Ansible Tower 3.3 arrives to make DevOps easier than ever

This new version features more control, greater scalability, better container support, and can now be run on Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform.

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Data breaches affect stock performance in the long run, study finds

Study finds that stocks from 28 companies that suffered large breaches had underperformed on the stock market.

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Apple products you should not buy (Updated September 2018 edition)

Now that the new iPhones, along with the Apple Watch Series 4, have landed, you're a go to buy new a some shiney new Apple stuff. But there are plenty of other Apple products you should avoid.

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iPhone XS: Here's what it needed, and what we got

Ahead of the iPhone XS unveiling I compiled a wishlist of what the iPhone needed to stay ahead of the flagship Android smartphones. Let's take a look at what we got, and what we didn't.

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Harvesting marijuana with robots is hard. Here's how one company figured it out.

The legal hemp industry is booming. Like many commercial ag sectors, automation is coming.

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North Korea claims hacker responsible for WannaCry outbreak does not exist

The country insists the indictment of the hacker is nothing more than a smear campaign.

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Sly malware author hides cryptomining botnet behind ever-shifting proxy service

Botnet author appears to be successful at hiding cryptocurrency mining botnet behind reverse proxy network used by enterprises and the developer community.

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Millions think the new iPhones are worth going into debt for

Millions of people have wanted to own an iPhone for over a decade, and the demand still appears strong, regardless of its high cost.

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Siri, Apple is just not that into you

Apple put on its big event heralding the newest iPhones and Apple Watch Series 4, but in nearly two hours of product updates, Siri was only mentioned once for eight seconds.

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Adobe beats Q3 earnings targets

The Photoshop maker reported third quarter revenue of $2.29 billion, up 24 percent from the same period last year.

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Microsoft buys AI startup Lobe

Lobe makes a visual platform on which users can build, train and ship custom deep learning models with little to no code writing.

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Security flaw can leak Intel ME encryption keys

Intel has released updates for Intel ME, SPS, and TXE firmware to address encryption key-spilling flaw.

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Apple finally moves beyond the shadow of Steve Jobs with a truly life-changing product

Some industry watchers believed that Apple couldn't move out of the shadow of Steve Jobs and carve out for itself a new and different direction. Yesterday, under the leadership of Tim Cook, Apple proved them wrong.

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Galaxy Note 9 or iPhone XS Max? Compare before you upgrade

Samsung's Galaxy Note 9 is a business productivity powerhouse that the consumer electronics giant desperately wants to go mainstream. Whether you upgrade depends on whether you're more about work or play. Here's how it compares to the iPhone XS Max.

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Facebook unveils tool to automatically fix bugs

The tool, called SapFix, has been used to ship stable code updates to millions of devices using the Facebook Android app.

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We compare Samsung Galaxy Watch vs Apple Watch Series 4: Best doesn't always win

Apple just announced its latest Apple Watch about a month after Samsung revealed the Galaxy Watch. Both are excellent smartwatches with a focus on health and fitness, and while one is a better value, the other is likely to sell millions more.

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Google talks up APAC cloud support as Alibaba intensifies gameplay

Amid Alibaba's increased efforts to build up its cloud footprint, Google also is beefing up its coverage in Asia-Pacific where it says it will operate seven cloud regions by early-2019, up from just one region two years ago.

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New iPhones don't support Apple Pencil: Samsung Note 9 still best for stylus users

There were rumors that the new Apple iPhones might support the Apple Pencil and challenge Samsung's Galaxy Note 9. That did not occur so Samsung still offers a unique feature with the S Pen.

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LinkedIn open sources TonY, its framework to run TensorFlow on Hadoop

The core idea is to run TensorFlow jobs as reliably and flexibly as other first-class citizens on Hadoop.

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Windows support scam uses evil cursor attack to hijack Google Chrome sessions

Partnerstroka uses an "evil cursor" attack to hijack the mouse of Google Chrome browser users.

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Two billion devices still vulnerable to Blueborne vulnerabilities a year after discovery

Countless devices are still vulnerable to the set of Bluetooth-based security flaws 12 months after being made public.

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Apple, Amazon, Google, others called to testify on consumer privacy protections

Apple, Amazon, AT&T, Charter, Google, and Twitter called to testify in front of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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What to do with the data? The evolution of data platforms in a post big data world

Thought leader Esteban Kolsky takes on the big question: What will data platforms look like now that big data's hype is over and big data "solutions" are at hand?

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Apple Watch Series 4: What's next for telemedicine and health clouds?

The new capabilities of Apple's flagship wearable device will be further enhanced by allowing healthcare providers to directly interact with patients using telemedicine and to review and analyze their data in the cloud.

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Windows and Linux Kodi users infected with cryptomining malware

Kodi media player users who installed add-ons from the Bubbles, Gaia, and XvBMC repositories might have been infected with a coinminer.

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IBM Cloud Private for Data preps Red Hat OpenShift certification, queryplex search tool

IBM Cloud Private for Data is building out features and tools to query data sources across multiple clouds.

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Speck Presidio cases for Samsung Galaxy Note 9: Multi-layer drop protection with no-slip grip

The Galaxy Note 9 has a high level of dust and water resistance, but it is still made of glass panels and isn't made to be dropped. Speck released a couple of cases that satisfy the Designed for Samsung requirements.

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Salesforce launches new low-code app building tools

The new tools are built for converting spreadsheets into apps and creating automated business processes.

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Kernel exploit discovered in macOS Webroot SecureAnywhere antivirus software

The severe memory corruption flaw permitted attackers to execute malware at the kernel level.

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Lenovo, NetApp forge data center partnership, joint venture in China

Lenovo gets to ramp its storage portfolio using NetApp software. In addition, the two companies will form a joint venture in China to target the local cloud service market.

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Jaxx wallet phishing campaign aimed to steal user cryptocurrency

Phishing emails and poisoned search results may have allowed the spread of the cryptocurrency-stealing scam.

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BEC scam artist ordered to pay back $2.5 million, lands hefty prison sentence

A Nigerian man has paid dearly for scamming victims out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Kelihos botnet operator jailed for account theft, ID trading in the Dark Web

Prosecutors say the man lived comfortably by selling stolen credentials harvested through the botnet's activities.

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Polar announces Vantage V and Vantage M: Multisport watches with advanced heart rate monitors

It's been a couple of years since we have seen a high end GPS sports watch from Polar and the Vantage V looks exciting. Polar also revealed a new mid-level device for the casual athlete.

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New cold boot attack affects "nearly all modern computers"

Security researchers find a new way to disable current cold boot attack firmware security measures to steal sensitive data from high-value computers.

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Scareware scheme operator thrown behind bars for targeting US media

Visitors of the Minneapolis Star Tribune found their computers infected with malware and were exposed to fake Windows support messages.

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iPhone XS/iPhone XS Max/iPhone XR: Here's everything you need to know (in pictures)

Here's everything from the September 12 launch event that you need to know about the iPhone XS, the iPhone XS Max, and the iPhone XR. Here I've captured details of the camera, battery life, the new A12 Bionic processor, launch dates, as well as the all-important price of these new devices.

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Nvidia outlines inference platform, lands Japan's industrial giants as AI, robotics customers

The news highlights Nvidia's traction in AI and the data center.

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In latest Windows test builds, Microsoft discourages alternate browsers

In a new test build for an upcoming Windows 10 feature update, Microsoft appears to be testing a warning dialog box that will discourage users from installing third-party browsers. The feedback has been less than kind.

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Report: Nearly half of US mobile connections will be on 5G by 2025

Meanwhile, the mobile industry's economic contribution in North America should reach $1.1 trillion by 2022, according to the GSMA.

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​EU smacks internet in the face with link tax and upload filter laws

In one of the dumbest technology regulation moves since the US's FCC destroyed America's net neutrality, the European Union's copyright law overhaul promises to wreck today's internet.

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Brave browser files GDPR breach complaints against Google in the EU

Google and fellow ad tech firms accused of violating GDPR during the "bid request" process used in behavioral ads.

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Apple tries to wipe AirPower from the history books

A year after teasing us with the AirPower all-in-one wireless charger for the iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods, Apple has now erased all references to AirPower from its website

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I experienced Apple's iPhone event in these 300 words

There were a lot of words. Here's what you need to know, at least as far as I'm concerned.

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State Department shamed for poor adoption of multi-factor authentication

Senators demand answers after government report finds that only 11 percent of the Department of State's devices use multi-factor authentication.

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iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR tech specs

Let's take a tour of the key features of Apple's new iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR, and see how they differ.

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Meet Apple's iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR: Prices and specs

Apple has finally unveiled the long awaited follow on to the iPhone X -- the iPhone XS, its bigger brother, the iPhone XS Max, and the 'budget model' iPhone XR.

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One less thing: No new Macs

Short and sweet, the Apple event was Apple Watch and iPhone only. If you wanted new Macs, there's no news for you.

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iPhone XR? What kind of name is that?

Apple enters a new world of monikers for its new (slightly) budget phone. Does R stand for "Regular"? Or perhaps something else?

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Apple details new immersive AR experiences coming in ARKit 2

Apple's new A12 bionic chip is key to powering new immersive AR experiences, which we can expect to see a lot more of in iOS 12.

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Sprint chairman: US can't win 5G race without Sprint, T-Mobile merger

Marcelo Claure, executive chairman of the board of Sprint Corporation, said the combined company has the spectrum assets and financial strength to move the US ahead in 5G.

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Apple iPhone XS event: By the numbers

Facts and figures about how Apple's hardware and software ecosystem is faring.

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Uproar after Adobe winds down Magento rewards-based bug bounty program

Adobe announces plans to integrate Magento bug bounty program into existing vulnerabilities disclosure platform that offers no monetary rewards to bug hunters.

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A question of security: What is obfuscation and how does it work?

With off-the-shelf malware becoming increasingly popular, hackers need to use a variety of techniques to disguise their activities.

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Feedify becomes latest victim of the Magecart malware campaign

Magecart crew strikes again! This time they infect the infrastructure of a website push notification service.

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Gartner predicts SaaS revenues to reach $85 billion in 2019

Globally speaking, Gartner predicts that by 2021, cloud revenues will total $278 billion.

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Facebook backs new Brazil-Argentina submarine cable

The undersea link is expected to start operations in 2020.

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Okta partners with Yubico to offer free security keys

Okta will give away two free Okta-branded YubiKey Experience Packs to every Okta customer organization using Okta MFA and Okta Adaptive MFA.

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After Windows 10 upgrade, do these seven things immediately

You've just upgraded to the most recent version of Windows 10. Before you get back to work, use this checklist to ensure that your privacy and security settings are correct and that you've cut annoyances to a bare minimum.

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Windows file sharing comes to Chromebooks

Starting in October, Chromebook users will be able to access files natively on Windows PCs and Windows and Samba file servers.

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Cornerstone OnDemand buys Workpop, aims to bolster recruiting suite

The acquisition of Workpop will result into Cornerstone Frontline, a recruiting tool to help customers find entry-level employees.

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iPhone XS event: Five things to look out for

We're hours away from Apple unveiling the new crop of iPhones. But don't get too distracted by shiny new things, because you might miss important clues as to where the industry is headed.

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OpenSSL 1.1.1 out with TLS 1.3 support and "complete rewrite" of RNG component

TLS 1.3 brings speed improvements and better cryptography to OpenSSL, the most popular open source cryptography library on the market

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Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3NX: The best flash drive for business users

Business users looking for a USB flash drive that offers built-in encryption and a broad range of storage capacities, all at an affordable price need look no further.

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Train a robot with Virtual Reality (no coding required)

The convergence of VR & robotics is one of the most important early use cases for mixed reality in the enterprise

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Intel: UK's digital skill gap is a serious issue

Intel says the UK is not turning out enough tech grads but, like other multinationals, the company is doing its bit to help.

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Data management firm Veeam mismanages own data, leaks 445m records

The server was reportedly available for anyone to access and lacked any form of protection against intrusion.

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Adobe patch update tackles six critical vulnerabilities in ColdFusion

The worst vulnerabilities lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Publication of PoC in popular WordPress plugin leads to scans for vulnerable sites

WordPress security firm Defiant reports "very noticeable uptick" in scans for vulnerable plugin installations.

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Judge rules cryptocurrency ICO scam case falls under securities law

Judge rules that initial coin offerings are "securities" and SEC can go after ICO scammers for securities fraud under US securities laws.

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FCC says it needs more time to review Sprint, T-Mobile merger

The federal agency told the mobile carriers that it's hitting pause on the "shot clock" so it can review newly-submitted materials from the two carriers.

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Microsoft patches recent ALPC zero-day in September 2018 Patch Tuesday updates

Microsoft engineers patch 62 vulnerabilities, including 17 rated 'Critical'

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​Nextcloud 14 rolls out with two major security features

Want a full-featured, easy-to-run, open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud to call your own? Check out the latest version of Nextcloud.

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eBay open sources HeadGaze, computer vision tech based on ARKit

The technology tracks a user's head motion so they can navigate a smartphone screen without their hands.

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Arizona's top prosecutor reportedly investigating Google

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is probing Google's location tracking practices, according to a report.

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Hurricane Florence: Get your tech ready for the coming storm

Another serious hurricane is headed for the US, bringing with it the potential to cause "massive damage" to parts of the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States. Technology can keep your informed, and helping to keep you and your family safe.

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Here's what the iPhone XS needs, but probably won't get

We're hours away from the unveiling of the next iPhone, so that leaves time for a last-minute wish-list. But I wouldn't hold your breath for any of these features -- if you need many of these features, the smartphone you need is probably Samsung's Note 9.

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Twilio acquires contact center software maker Ytica

The acquisition lines up with Twilio's push into the contact center market

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First IoT security bill reaches governor's desk in California

California IoT security bill criticized by security researcher. Expert says bill "is based upon an obviously superficial understanding of the problem."

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How to watch Apple's September 12 iPhone event

Not invited to Apple's September 12 iPhone unveiling? Here's how you can grab a front-row seat.

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T-Mobile, Ericsson sign $3.5 billion 5G agreement

T-Mobile and Ericsson rival Nokia also ​announced a $3.5 billion 5G deal back in July.

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The past, present, and future of streaming: Flink, Spark, and the gang

Reactive, real-time applications require real-time, eventful data flows. This is the premise on which a number of streaming frameworks have proliferated. The latest milestone was adding ACID capabilities, so let us take stock of where we are in this journey down the streamor river.

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How 9/11 Changed My IT Consulting Career

It felt great to have full command of one's destiny, to report to no-one. To not have to climb any ladders or engage in corporate politics. It was invigorating to be one's own man and my own boss. I was an independent consulting badass.

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Online security 101: Tips for protecting your privacy from hackers and spies

This simple advice will help to protect you against hackers and government surveillance.

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Alexa's land-and-expand strategy is racking up the numbers

While Google is outselling Amazon in global units of smart speakers, other numbers show Amazon is doing just fine in expanding Alexa's reach and usage

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'Father of Zeus' Kronos malware exploits Office bug to hijack your bank account

The $7000 malware shows there is serious money to be made in the banking Trojan market.

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Here's the next iPad Pro Apple should build: Specs and speculation

Apple's third-generation iPad Pro is likely to have important but incremental improvements over its predecessor and include technologies introduced in the iPhone X.

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Get a 1-year Staples Plus membership for $29

Normally $49, it bags you a variety of discounts and free next-day delivery.

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Panasonic Toughbook FZ-L1: A versatile 7-inch rugged Android tablet

Workers in warehouses or customer-facing environments are the target for this relatively compact, lightweight Android tablet.

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Apple's iPhone XS: 9 things you need to know before the keynote

Apple's iPhone XS and siblings are about to launch -- along with Apple Watch and an iPad Pro update. Here's a between-the-lines reading of the developments.

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How to steal a Tesla Model S in seconds

An attack technique has been revealed which allows threat actors to unlock a Tesla vehicle in no time at all.

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25,000 robots and counting: Welcome to the fastest-growing segment of industrial automation

The good times are rolling in automation, but milestones like this may be bellwethers for some very human challenges ahead

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Renesas acquires IDT in $6.7bn deal to boost self-driving car chip business

The Japanese firm says the deal is a crucial component of long-term strategy in the autonomous vehicle space.

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British Airways breach caused by the same group that hit Ticketmaster

Security researchers find clues connecting the Magecart group to the breach at British Airways.

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Singapore payments vendor takes app global with UnionPay partnership

Network for Electronic Transfers of Singapore (Nets) has inked an agreement with China's UnionPay to enable consumers to scan and pay for purchases at 7.5 million participating merchants worldwide.

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Beleaguered telecom has made content red hot in India

Content providers are making hay while telecom companies are yet to figure out a monetisation model.

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Tech support scammers find a home on Microsoft TechNet pages

Security researchers finds over 3,000 TechNet pages flooded with tech support scams pushing shady phone numbers for cryptocurrency exchanges and social media platforms.

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Shared services catch on, but need to scale to digital proportions

At the IT level, services are shared more than ever, thanks to cloud.

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Microsoft details for the first time how it classifies Windows security bugs

The Microsoft Security Response Center publishes two documents detailing internal procedures used by its staff to prioritize and classify security bugs.

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Google Cloud hires CMU Dean Andrew Moore as next AI chief

Moore will succeed Fei-Fei Li, who will return to her professorship at Stanford.

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Intel acquires NetSpeed Systems for SOC design tools

NetSpeed's network-on-chip (NoC) tool should help Intel more quickly and cost-effectively develop and test new SoCs.

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Why do people want a new iPhone? This research gives a fascinating clue

It's often the assumption that people simply crave what's new. Not necessarily.

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Microsoft rebrands, repositions Visual Studio Team Services as Azure DevOps

Three months after acquiring GitHub, Microsoft is rebranding and repositioning its VSTS coding collaboration service as 'Azure DevOps,'

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Adobe brings new voice analytics capabilities to Experience Cloud

The voice analytics capabilities analyze voice-activated searches through AI assistant platforms including Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana, Google Home, and Amazon Alexa.

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iPhone hope and dread: In its game of phones, what beloved features will Apple kill off next?

Will Apple get rid of the Home button and Touch ID across the iPhone product line? The company does have a track record of removing the useful in favor of the whiz-bang.

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Exploit vendor drops Tor Browser zero-day on Twitter

A company that sells exploits to government agencies drops Tor Browser zero-day on Twitter after recent Tor Browser update renders exploit less valuable.

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Government and schools boost Brazilian PC market

Pre-election rush to update equipment drove sales increase, according to IDC.

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Before the hurricane: Storm trackers and other survival tools for mobile and desktop users

Your tablet and smartphone can be invaluable tools to help you stay out of harm's way during hurricane season.

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LuckyMouse uses malicious NDISProxy Windows driver to target gov't entities

The hacking group is covertly infecting Windows machines with Trojans by way of stolen certificates belonging to a Chinese security company.

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One month with the Samsung Galaxy Note 9: Glorious S Pen functionality, long battery life, and reliable performance

I enjoyed the Galaxy Note 8, but there were a few things that kept me from complete joy. Samsung addressed those with the Note 9 and I think it's a phone made to exactly satisfy all of my needs and desires.

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Impossible Aerospace reimagines the electric airplane

"It's not so much an aircraft as it is a flying battery."

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Hortonworks unveils roadmap to make Hadoop cloud-native

Acknowledging the importance of cloud, Hortonworks is releasing a roadmap and partnering with IBM and Red Hat to transform Hadoop into a cloud-native platform. It's a journey that won't happen overnight.

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HP launches Metal Jet 3D printing, additive manufacturing system

HP's 3D printing efforts started with plastics but now are expanding to metals such as stainless steel. The big bet for HP is mass manufacturing.

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Cisco launches UCS system for AI, machine learning, deep learning

The system is powered by the latest Intel Xeons as well as Nvidia Tesla GPUs.

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How Apple Watch saved my life

I have always been a tolerant and loyal opposition user of Cupertino's products. Now I am committed to using them, forever.

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Researcher finds new malware persistence method leveraging Microsoft UWP apps

New malware persistence method works only on Windows 10 and abuses built-in UWP apps like the Cortana and People apps.

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These are the warning signs of a fraudulent ICO

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are part of the cryptocurrency Wild West, but how do you know what is fake and what is legitimate?

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Mirai, Gafgyt IoT botnets stab systems with Apache Struts, SonicWall exploits

The IoT botnets are back with a new arsenal containing a vast array of vulnerabilities.

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Popular VPNs contain code execution security flaws, despite patches

ProtonVPN and NordVPN contain severe bugs which impact Windows users and threaten their privacy.

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Australia's anti-encryption law will merely relocate the backdoors: Expert

If the Assistance and Access Bill becomes law as it stands, it could affect 'every website that is accessible from Australia' with relatively few constraints in the government's powers.

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OtterBox Samsung Galaxy Note 9 case roundup: Slim drop protection in various styles

The Galaxy Note 9 is Samsung's most expensive smartphone yet and while it offers a high level of dust and water resistance, it is still susceptible to drops. OtterBox is known for protecting your phones and has several options for the Note 9.

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Standard to protect against BGP hijack attacks gets first official draft

NIST and DHS project publishes first draft of new BGP Route Origin Validation (ROV) standard that will help ISPs and cloud providers protect against BGP hijack attacks.

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Do you have to wear those AirPods all the time?

What is it with people who insert Apple's bluetooth headphones and wear them all day? Is this the horror of the wearable future that Apple will be enhancing next week?

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Worries arise about security of new WebAuthn protocol

Cryptography experts point out that new WebAuthn protocol recommends or requires the implementation of old and weak algorithms known to be vulnerable to attacks for years

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Peeled onions and a Minus Touch: Verizon data breach digest lifts the lid on theft tactics

The 2018 report gives us a glimpse of tactics hackers are using today in the name of data exfiltration.

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More work required to understand the user in UX, survey shows

Superior user experience (UX) is both a qualitative and quantitative exercise.

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How to securely wipe the data off hard drives, SSDs, flash drives, iPhones and iPads, and Android devices

We live in an age where a little bit of paranoia is healthy and making sure that out personal information is safely and securely erased off devices we've used is a good thing. Here's a quick guide to securely wiping hard drives (HDDs), solid state drives (SSDs), flash drives, and even iOS and Android devices.

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iOS 12/watchOS 5/tvOS 12: Is your device supported?

iOS 12, watchOS 5, and tvOS 12 are days away from landing, but will your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or Apple TV be supported, or will the launch mean a trip to the Apple Store?

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Free up disk space, remove malware, and speed up your Mac with CleanMyMac X

All it takes is a single click to carry out a whole raft of basic maintenance tasks on your Mac with the new and updated CleanMyMac X.

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Bill that would have the White House create a database of APT groups passes House vote

US hopes that a name-and-shame strategy would deter foreign nation-state hacking groups to attack US infrastructure as often as now.

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Tens of iOS apps caught collecting and selling location data

Apps collect data such as GPS coordinates, WiFi network IDs and more, and pass all of it to advertising and monetization firms.

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Tor Project releases first alpha of Android mobile browser

After yesterday the Tor Project released Tor Browser v8, today, the organization had another surprise in store for its loyal fanbase —an Android mobile browser.

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Why don't more people over 60 have YouTube channels?

Why are people aged 60 and over not sharing their wisdom, knowledge, and insights on YouTube?

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Broadcom CEO defends CA purchase

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said the acquisition, which was widely panned by analysts, boils down to customers, revenue and future growth.

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Microsoft updates 'Your Phone' for Android with SMS support

Microsoft also rolled out to testers yet another new Fast Ring test build of its October 2018 Update.

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US Government releases post-mortem report on Equifax hack

GAO report takes us inside Equifax from March 2017 onward, showing how a few slip-ups led to one of the biggest breaches in US history

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Microsoft's October 2 Fall Event: What to expect

Microsoft's October 2 New York City event is expected to feature more than just a couple refreshed Surface devices. Windows, Office, Cortana and other software and services will likely get cameos, too.

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Top Mac anti-adware software in App Store steals your browsing history

A Mac app ranked in the top App Store tiers secretly sends the browsing history of users to a server in China.

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Infosys targets Southeast Asia growth with Temasek joint venture

Indian IT consulting vendor Infosys will own 60 percent of a joint venture with Singapore's state-own investment firm, Temasek Holdings, with the aim to offer IT services to businesses in the region.

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New and upcoming phones: iPhone XS, Pixel 3 and others we're expecting this fall

Most major flagship smartphones are now on a fairly regular release schedule and leaks are a part of this cycle. It is rare for a phone to be released today with any surprises, so let's take a look at what is coming soon.

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What new hardware will Apple unveil next week?

New iPhones? New Apple Watch? New iPad Pro with Face ID? New MacBooks and Mac Minis? That's a crowded lineup, even for a launch event that could span three hours. Something will give.

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Schneider Electric may have shipped USB drives infested with malware

The flash drives were "contaminated" during the manufacturing process.

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Crims not spooks dominate cybersecurity threats: Sophos CEO

Ransomware, the volume of customised malware, and its commercialisation are the biggest factors affecting cybersecurity today, says Kris Hagerman. Nation-state actors less so, at least for most organisations.

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Hacker uses ProtonMail VPN. Hacker DDoSes ProtonMail. Hacker gets arrested.

Braggadocio teen part of up-and-coming Apophis Squad hacking squad fails to protect his identity. Gets promptly arrested by UK police. Pleads guilty.

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Alex Stamos: Pretty clear GRU's goal was to weaken a future Clinton presidency

Facebook CSO breaks down differences between fake news, GRU operations, and IRA troll farms

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Apple is building a portal to field police requests for data

In a letter to a senator, Apple detailed the steps it's taking to help law enforcement obtain access to digital evidence.

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​Symantec-secured website shutdown coming soon

In October, Chrome and Firefox users will be blocked from websites still using insecure Symantec/DigiCert TLS certificates. If you don't want to tick off your users, you need to replace these security certificates as soon as possible. Here's how to lock down your site properly.

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How US authorities tracked down the North Korean hacker behind WannaCry

US authorities put together four years worth of malware samples, domain names, email and social media accounts to track down one of the Lazarus Group hackers.

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Okta beats Q2 estimates with strong enterprise sales

The identity management firm says it's benefiting from trends including concerns about security and the move to the cloud.

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Microsoft's new Windows 10 19H1 test build adds fixes, support for new app updates

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 19H1 Skip Ahead build, No. 18234, adds a bunch of minor updates and fixes, but still no major new features.

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São Paulo subway operator gets sued for collecting passenger data

Gathering data on public transport users is illegal as it's unauthorized and people have no choice in the matter, says local consumer rights institute.

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Tesla modifies product policy to accommodate "good-faith" security research

Tesla promises to reset car firmware and software damaged during security research. Also promises not to go after "good-faith" researchers in court.

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Another use for Cortana (and Alexa): Controlling Microsoft's Xbox

Cortana- and Alexa-powered devices soon will enable users to control many of their Xbox One console activities using their voice.

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The big yawn: These new iPhones will be so boring, I can't wait

Expect ho-hum iteration, not innovation, from next week's upcoming Apple event. Because that's how transformation happens.

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DOJ to charge North Korean officer for Sony hack and WannaCry ransomware

After charging Chinese, Iranian, and Russian cyberspies, US preparies indictment against North Korean officer.

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How to watch Apple's iPhone event on September 12, 2018

Not invited to Apple's September 12 iPhone unveiling? Here's how you can grab a front-row seat.

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Microsoft to offer paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates

Microsoft is stepping up its Windows 7 migration campaign with a paid security update option, Desktop App Assure service and more.

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Microsoft relents on Office support cutoff dates

Microsoft is extending its support window for Office 365 ProPlus on some Windows variants, as well as Office 2016's ability to continue to work with Office 365.

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Microsoft permanently extends support for Windows 10 Enterprise and Education feature updates to 30 months

IT Pros rejoice: Microsoft is relenting on how quickly users will have to move to new Windows 10 feature updates.

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Microsoft extends support cycle for Windows 10 Enterprise customers

Bowing to pressure from enterprise administrators, Microsoft has extended its Windows 10 support cycle yet again. Today's announcements effectively create a Linux-like Long Term Support version for customers that pay for Enterprise upgrades.

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Top 12 Raspberry Pi alternatives (September 2018 edition)

Here is a selection of single board computers for homebrew projects and automation, with prices starting at only $5. Edited September 2018

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Vulnerabilities found in the remote management interface of Supermicro servers

Eclypsium researchers disclose second vulnerability affecting Supermicro servers in the past three months

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AMD unveils 'reimagined' Athlon processor, and Athlon PRO and Ryzen PRO chips

New chips coming out of AMD, both for everyday PC users and commercial users.

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Wider net: 5G and the connection between the wireless connections

Where the thing that most clearly distinguishes a 5G installation from a 4G or a 3G when you look at it, collides against a new reality: Equipment manufacturers, fearing they may earn less revenue from producing cheaper equipment, promote something else instead - something that looks more like 3G than 5G.

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ADP adds benchmarks, insights to its mobile app

Customers of ADP's Vantage HCM and Workforce Now will get AI powered insights geared toward execs and managers.

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New 2018 iPhone, iPhone XS, iPhone X Plus, iPhone 9: Rumors, leaks, launch date, and everything we know so far

With the launch of the next iPhone now days away, the leaks, rumors, and analyst chatter is reaching fever pitch.

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Dell Technologies sees strong Q2 demand for its data center gear, PCs

The company also raised its outlook for the fiscal year and said it is benefiting from a strong upgrade cycle fueled by digital transformation.

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Salesforce intros new Sales Cloud features for billing, marketing automation

he CRM giant is also a touting a new customer win with Lyft Business.

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Tor Browser gets a redesign, switches to new Firefox Quantum engine

Tor Browser finally updated to use new-and-improved Firefox Quantum codebase. This includes new Photon UI.

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Humanity.co Android app launches: Can blockchain bring property rights to your data?

Healthcare is the first target for Humanity.co's apps, which use IBM's blockchain platform, but there could be multiple industries on deck.

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Singapore moots 'essential' cybersecurity rules for financial firms

Monetary Authority of Singapore has proposed converting current cybersecurity guidelines to mandatory requirements, which financial institutions operating in the country must adopt to safeguard their IT systems and build up their cyber resilience.

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The ultimate guide to finding and killing spyware and stalkerware on your smartphone

Surveillance isn't just the purview of nation-states and government agencies -- sometimes, it is closer to home.

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Schneider Electric Modicon vulnerability impacts ICS operation in industrial settings

The security flaw, if left unpatched, has the potential to cause unnecessary reboots.

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Hands-on with MX Linux: A pleasant, easy-to-install Linux distribution

MX Linux is a descendant/spin-off from Antix and MEPIS Linux. I want to see what it is like to install and run on both UEFI and MBR laptops.

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iRobot's new Roomba is first to store maps of your home

iRobot created the autonomous vacuum market, and now it's hoping smart features and an advanced docking base will set it apart in a crowded field.

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Cisco warns customers of critical security flaws, advisory includes Apache Struts

The massive security update includes a patch for the recently-disclosed Apache bug -- but not all products will be fixed yet.

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Vodafone: You used 1234 as your password and were hacked? You cover the cost

Hackers are behind bars for stealing $30,000 from accounts, but Vodafone wants their victims to pay the tab.

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Living Machines: A quick history of robots (Part I)

Derided as abominations or celebrated as ingenious feats of human engineering, robots have been around longer than you think.

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Tech habits of college students reveals surprises with Generation Z

What trends has Generation Z (Gen Z) adopted, as 16 million Americans go back to their campuses? A new survey from UNiDAYS gives some insights.

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Facebook building its first Asia data centre in Singapore

To be operational in 2022, the new facility will span 11 storeys and see the social media company invest S$1.4 billion (US$1.02 billion) in the country.

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