Friday the Trump administration suffered a political setback when divisions in the president’s party halted a move to repeal healthcare policies passed in 2010. But if Trump hopes to turn his attention to how America’s H-1B visa program is affecting…
Anti-Virus Vendors Scramble To Patch Hijacking Exploit Involving Microsoft Tool
“A zero-day attack called Double Agent can take over antivirus software on Windows machines,” Network World reported Wednesday. wiredmikey writes: The attack involves the Microsoft Application Verifier, a runtime verification tool for unmanaged code that helps developers find subtle programming…
Uber Halts Self-Driving Car Tests in Arizona After Friday Night Collision
“Given that the Uber vehicle has flipped onto its side it looks to be a high speed crash,” writes TechCrunch, though Business Insider reports that no one was seriously injured. An anonymous reader quotes their report: A self-driving Uber car…
'Why The US Senate's Vote To Throw Out ISP Privacy Laws Isn't All Bad'
“Nobody wants their data spread far and wide,” write two associate editors at MIT Technology Review, “but the FCC’s rules were an inconsistent solution to a much larger problem.” An anonymous reader writes: They point out the rules passed in…
Apache Hadoop Has Failed Us, Tech Experts Say
It was the first widely-adopted open source distributed computing platform. But some geeks running it are telling Datanami that Hadoop “is great if you’re a data scientist who knows how to code in MapReduce or Pig…but as you go higher…
Experts Doubt Hackers’ Claim Of Millions Of Breached Apple Credentials
Security experts say they are skeptical that a group called Turkish Crime Family actually possess a cache of hundreds of millions of Apple iCloud account credentials.
Spock will unlock Kirk ransomware – after you beam up a bunch of Monero
It’s ransomware, Jim, but not as we know it
Man charged with $100m ‘whaling’ attack on two US tech giants
Victims of whaling attack not named, but it’s not the first time a big multinational has been targeted, and it won’t be the last
Still running Windows Vista? Here’s a wake-up call for you
Microsoft is finally ending its extended support for Windows Vista, which means no more security patches or other updates. If you’re one of the hold-outs, it’s time to act
Latest WikiLeaks dump shows CIA targeting Apple earlier than others
Focusing on Macs makes sense, say experts: ‘many high-value targets love to use Macs’