A new ransomware-as-a-service called Karmen appeals to ransomware newbies with a low price, easy setup and developer updates.
Facebook Delegated Account Recovery SDKs Published for Java, Ruby Apps
At F8 today, Facebook released SDKs and documentation for the integration of Delegated Account Recovery into Java, NodeJS and Ruby applications.
IHG Confirms Second Credit Card Breach Impacting 1,000-Plus Hotels
InterContinental Hotels Group said on Friday that it found malware designed to access payment card data at more than 1,000 of its hotels.
Tuesday review – the hot 22 stories of the week
From Word’s zero-day booby-trap exploit and the patch that Microsoft released to how hard-coded passwords risk the industry, and more!
How the Six-Hour Workday Actually Saves Money
An anonymous reader shares a report: In February, after almost two years worth of six-hour workdays, nurses at the Svartedalens elderly care facility in Gothenburg, Sweden went back to eight hour shifts — despite recently published research showing the benefits…
Samsung Blocks Ability To Remap Galaxy S8's Bixby Button
A Samsung representative confirmed today via Twitter that the company has blocked the ability for users to remap the Bixby hardware button on the Galaxy S8. For soon-to-be Galaxy S8 owners, the news will come as a disappointment, especially since…
New York Plans To Force Uber To Add Tipping Option
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission announced a proposal today that could force Uber to finally allow riders to tip drivers within its app. The full proposal will be…
For the First Time On Record, Human-Caused Climate Change Has Rerouted an Entire River
A team of scientists on Monday documented what they’re describing as the first case of large-scale river reorganization as a result of human-caused climate change (Editor’s note: could be paywalled; alternative source). From a report: They found that in mid-2016,…
Dingo Wins The World's Most Interesting Genome Competition
An anonymous reader shares a report: It sounds like an argument scientists might have during a night of drinking: Which creature has the most interesting genome in the world? But the question is more than a passing musing. San Francisco…
VMware Fixes Critical RCE in vCenter Server
VMware patched a critical vulnerability in its vCenter Server platform late last week that could have let an attacker execute arbitrary code in some scenarios.