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eBay announced today a new Price Match Guarantee for over 50,000 items across its site — promising that it will have the best deal online, or it will match the lowest price of a competitor. While only select items are…

An anonymous reader shares a Motherboard article: If you were youngish in the early 2000s, you probably remember this phenomenon — calling a friend’s cell phone, and instead of hearing the the standard ring, you heard a pop song. Called…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Microsoft has admitted that it does temporarily disable anti-virus software on Windows PCs, following an competition complaint to the European Commission by a security company. In early June, Kaspersky Lab filed…

sciencehabit writes: NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars in 2012, in part to analyze rocks to see whether the Red Planet was ever habitable (or inhabited). But now the robot has gone off script, picking out its own targets for…

Chrisq writes: An EU study has found that many electronic devices and appliances use more energy in real-world conditions than in the standard EU tests. Often the real world figures are double those in the ratings. Sometimes this is achieved…

Avaya released a patch last week for a remote code execution vulnerability in its Avaya Aura Application Enablement Services software.

OpenVPN patched four vulnerabilities privately disclosed by Dutch researcher Guido Vranken, including a critical issue that could lead to remote code execution.

Carmaker Honda announced Wednesday that it was forced to shut down production at one of its Japanese plants earlier this week after it was hit by the WannaCry ransomware.

Former AT&T CSO, Ed Amoroso, says government needs to shift from talk to action when it comes to cybersecurity.