“Tech support scammers have started exploiting a two-year-old bug in Google Chrome to trick victims into believing their PC is infected with malware,” reports security researcher Sophos. It begins by freezing the browser, BrianFagioli reports, sharing an article from Beta…

Slashdot reader whoever57 writes; Navinder Sarao, the British trader who was accused of causing the “flash crash” in 2010 and was extradited to the U.S. this week has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of…

InfoWorld has identified “seven of the gnarliest corners of the programming world,” which Slashdot reader snydeq describes as “worthy of large markers reading, ‘Here be dragons.’” Some examples: Multithreading. “It sounded like a good idea,” according to the article, but…

Need a new set of generic attack detection rules for your web application firewall? Try the new OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set version 3.0.0! Long-time Slashdot reader dune73 writes: The OWASP CRS is a widely-used Open Source set of generic…

Does Ethernet need new features like “stream reservation” and time synchronization to make sure time-sensitive data isn’t delayed on the network? coondoggie quotes Network World: The demand from Internet of Things, automotive networking and video applications are driving changes to…

As the old adage goes, the devil’s in the details, so here they are.

American Airlines said Friday Sabre had faced a brief technical issue that impacted multiple carriers. The issue has, however, been resolved. From a report on NBC Chicago: A technical issue at with a computer IT firm briefly caused technical problems…

BlackBerry has officially stopped making its own phones, but the company has one last treat for die-hard fans: a new phone sporting its trademark physical keyboard. According to Bloomberg: Chief Executive Officer John Chen had hinted at the phone in…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is suing California over a law forcing the website to remove the ages of actors on request, saying it is unconstitutional. California passed a law in…

Orome1 quotes a report from Help Net Security: Adding hardware protections to software ones in order to block the ever increasing onslaught of computer malware seems like a solid idea, and a group of researchers have just been given a…