Russia doesn’t rule out retaliation if U.S. bans Kaspersky products
Russia does not rule out retaliatory measures if the United States bans Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab's products, RIA news agency cited Russia's Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov as saying on Thursday. On Wednesday U.S. senators sought...
FBI questions U.S. employees of Russian cyber firm Kaspersky Lab | Reuters
The FBI interviewed several U.S. employees of Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab this week as part of an ongoing agency probe of the company's operations, according to two sources familiar with the matter.Federal Bureau of Investigation agents visited the...
Koler Android Ransomware Targets the US with Fake PornHub Apps
During the past week, US users visiting adult-themed sites were targeted by ads for a fake PornHub app that contained a version of the Koler ransomware.This particular ransomware appeared in 2014 when the operators of the Reveton Windows screen-locking ransomware...
Heaps of Windows 10 internal builds, private source code leak online The Register
Exclusive A massive trove of Microsoft's internal Windows operating system builds and chunks of its core source code have leaked online.The data some 32TB of official and non-public installation images and software blueprints that compress down to 8TB were...
iPhone at 10: how it changed everything | Technology | The Guardian
Ten years ago today, the first iPhone hit stores in the US. On paper, the device was nothing special: it lacked the 3G connectivity whoch was becoming standard across much of the world, its battery struggled to last a day, and its camera resolution was just two...
Svensk journalist vinner strid mot Google
(UPPDATERAD) En kriminalreporter på en stor svensk tidning med skyddade personuppgifter begärde att Google skulle plocka bort en sökträff, som leder fram till en sajt där han blivit uthängd. Sökjätten sade först nej men har nu ändrat sig sedan Datainspektionen...
Flawed reporting about WhatsApp | Open door | Paul Chadwick | Opinion | The Guardian
The Guardian was wrong to report in January that the popular messaging service WhatsApp had a security flaw so serious that it was a huge threat to freedom of speech.But it was right to bring to wide public notice an aspect of WhatsApp that had the potential to make...
A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree – The New York Times
ROCKET CENTER, W.Va. A few years ago, Sean Bridges lived with his mother, Linda, in Wiley Ford, W.Va. Their only income was her monthly Social Security disability check. He applied for work at Walmart and Burger King, but they were not hiring.Yet while Mr. Bridges...
Hovrätten skärper straffen i Facebookvåldtäkten | SVT Nyheter
Hovrätten skärper straffen mot de tre männen som var inblandade i den uppmärksammade våldtäkten i Uppsala som direktsändes på Facebook.På onsdagseftermiddagen kom avgörandet i Svea hovrätt. Man går på åklagarens linje och skärper straffen för de tre männen som gjort...
Hacker Steals Millions of Accounts from Internet Radio Service 8tracks – Motherboard
Millions of accounts for internet radio service 8tracks are being traded on the digital underground, judging by a set of stolen user details obtained by Motherboard.8tracks is cross between a social network and an internet radio site, allowing users to stream custom...
Uptime app for watching YouTube w/ friends leaves beta, available to all | 9to5Mac
Google is unique in that it allows its employees to spend 20% of their time working on personal projects on top of their daily tasks. To help employees, Google has an incubator called Area 120 where projects can come to life. One of the latest apps to come out of Area...
Google faces years of EU oversight on top of record antitrust fine | Reuters
Beyond a headline-grabbing 2.4 billion euro ($2.7 billion) fine EU antitrust regulators have leveled against Google, the internet giant is likely to be shackled for years by Tuesday's precedent-setting decision defining the company as a monopoly.The ruling opens the...