From a press release: The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, today announced that AT&T has become a Platinum member. This follows news of the company’s contribution of several million lines of ECOMP code…
BitTorrent To Refocus On What Made It Rich – uTorrent
Best known for its uTorrent client, BitTorrent Inc has been focusing more on other projects for a while. But now, with another shake-up imminent, the company has made a fresh commitment to focus on uTorrent and Mainline clients. From an…
US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: The U.S. House of Representatives has just approved a “congressional disapproval” vote of privacy rules, which gives your ISP the right to sell your internet history to the highest bidder. The…
China's ZTE Removed From US Trade Blacklist
From a report: The U.S. Commerce Department will remove Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp from a trade blacklist after the company admitted to violating sanctions on Iran, the Commerce Department said in a notice made public on Tuesday. Read…
Hong Kong Government Loses Laptops Containing Personal Data of 3.7 Million Voters
New submitter fatp writes: Hong Kong Free Press reports that the Registration and Electoral Office (REO) has lost two laptops containing the personal data of all 3.7 million voters after the chief executive election [on Sunday]. The REO said “the…
Apple Fixes 223 Vulnerabilities Across macOS, iOS, Safari
Apple fixed hundreds of bugs, 223 to be exact, across macOS Sierra, iOS, Safari, watchOS, and tvOS on Monday.
Microsoft Offers Analysis of Zero-Day Exploited By Zirconium Group
Microsoft patched a zero-day vulnerability actively used in a campaign by a hacking group known as Zirconium.
Monday review – the hot 29 stories of the week
From Emma Watson in Celebgate 2.0 and how your Mac is not malware proof to the even deadlier USB Killer version 3, and much more!
DoubleAgent ‘vulnerability’ – just how bad is it?
The saga of DoubleAgent is, among other things, a good reminder that ordinary users shouldn’t have admin privileges
Man indicted for sending seizure-causing GIF as a ‘deadly weapon’
Journalist suffered eight-minute epileptic seizure after viewing a strobing GIF