What will it take to improve cybersecurity in the problem-plagued healthcare industry?
Infection by mouseover – what you need to know about PowerPoint spam
Malware-laced PowerPoint files are nothing new – but several recent spam campaigns have added a new twist.
Blast from the past – Patch Tuesday updates for Windows XP
Dust off your company procedures for Patch Tuesday! XP gets a raft of official updates this month to fix publicly-known holes.
News in brief: Hollywood fights piracy; Covfefe not a typo; Kim Dotcom loses
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news!
Kim Dotcom Loses Latest Battle To Recover Seized Assets
The Justice Department wants to keep Kim Dotcom’s millions of dollars worth of seized assets, citing the Megaupload founder’s fugitive status. The department filed a brief on Friday, which cited his fugitive status as well as a lack of evidence…
HBO, Netflix, Other Hollywood Companies Join Forces To Fight Piracy
New submitter stikves writes: It looks like media and technology companies are forming a group to “fight piracy.” The Verge reports: “A group of 30 entertainment companies, including power players like Netflix, HBO, and NBCUniversal, have joined forces today in…
Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People
gollum123 shares a report by Sean Illing via Vox: “Google is a digital truth serum,” Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Everybody Lies , told me in a recent interview. “People tell Google things that they don’t tell to possibly anybody else,…
Multi-Million Dollar Upgrade Planned To Secure 'Failsafe' Arctic Seed Vault
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Global Seed Vault, built in the Arctic as an impregnable deep freeze for the world’s most precious food seeds, is to undergo a multi-million dollar upgrade after water from melting…
Roomba Inventor Launches 'Tertill', a Weed-Killing Robot For Your Garden
mcpublic writes: iRobot veteran and Roomba co-inventor, Joe Jones is a modest man with a big mission: to create robots that make agriculture more efficient, less tedious, and yes, maybe even one day feed the world. After a decade at…
FIN7 Hitting Restaurants with Fileless Malware
A campaign attributed to the FIN7 attackers targets restaurants with phishing emails and infected RTF Word documents that carry out fileless malware attacks.