The co-founder and CEO of Oculus, Brendan Iribe, is stepping down from the company he helped create with Palmer Luckey over four years ago in Irvine, California. Iribe writes in a statement to UploadVR: “We’ve decided to establish new PC…
Microsoft Formally Introduces Zo, Its Latest AI-Powered Chatbot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Windows Central: Microsoft is surging forward with its commitment to artificial intelligence (AI), formally announcing its latest chatbot, Zo. In a post outlining its commitment to AI, Microsoft introduced Zo as the next…
IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump
IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty has pledged to “hire about 25,000 professionals in the next four years in the United States” as she and other technology executives prepared to meet with President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday. Reuters reports: IBM had…
Facebook Releases Free Certificate Transparency Monitoring Tool
Facebook makes freely available an internal tool used to monitor CT logs for new TLS certificates issued for a domain. Users can monitor and audit this information for malicious or mistakenly issued certs.
KFC Warns 1.2 Million UK Customers of Colonel’s Club Breach
KFC Corporation warned 1.2 million of its UK-based Colonel’s Club members to reset their passwords after 30 members were targeted in an attack.
Adobe Patches 31 Vulnerabilities, Flash Zero-Day Under Attack
As part of Patch Tuesday Adobe patched a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player the company claims is being used in targeted attacks against Internet Explorer users on Windows.
Microsoft Patches Publicly Disclosed IE, Edge Vulnerabilities
Microsoft patched a half-dozen critical browser vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed, but apparently not used in attacks as of yet.
Beta Firmware Updates Available for Vulnerable Netgear Routers
Netgear has built beta firmware updates for its Nighthawk routers vulnerable to a command injection attack disclosed last week.
Zcash Spurs Rash of Malicious Mining Software
Hackers are mining Zcash cryptocurrency surreptitiously on PCs infected with cleverly named programs such as system.exe, taskmngr.exe and svchost.exe.