Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
How Big Fuzzing helps find holes in open source projects
Google’s beta project, OSS-Fuzz, has found 264 vulnerabilities in 47 open-source projects – so is it an idea whose time has come?
News in brief: warning on extending laptop ban; telecom customers alerted; watchdog opens data probe
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
News in brief: United cockpit codes leaked online; WhatsApp fined; Netflix pulled from rooted phones
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Hospitals rapped for sharing 1.6m patient records with Google
Passing the patient records to the Google-owned company to help it build a health app as ‘inappropriate’, warns watchdog
WannaCry: here’s what we know now about the outbreak
As the dust settles after Friday’s outbreak, things are becoming clearer and it seems this was an unsophisticated use of a sophisticated tool
Microsoft Releases XP Patch for WannaCry Ransomware
Microsoft has taken the extraordinary step of providing an emergency update for unsupported Windows XP and Windows 8 machines in the wake of Friday’s WannaCry ransomware outbreak.
Soldiers sent hate-SMS messages from rogue base stations
The culprit exploits a design feature of older 2G networks in a type of man-in-the-middle attack
News in brief: Game of Thrones tells cast to use 2FA; Cisco flaw patched; Windows 10 on 500m devices
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
News in brief: laptop ban could be extended; DDoS hits news sites; Taiwan might block Google DNS
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news