2017-02-24 17:47
Cloudflare bug exposed passwords, other sensitive data from websites
For months, a bug in Cloudflare's content optimization systems exposed sensitive information sent by users to websites that use the company's content delivery network. The data included passwords, session cookies, authentication tokens and even private
2017-02-24 17:46
LG puts a massive battery in the X Power2, but not much else
LG will be showing its new G6 flagship phone at Mobile World Congress next week, but that's not the only handset the company is bringing to Barcelona. Joining it will be an update to the X Power, the X Power 2. Like its predecessor, the second-gen X P
2017-02-24 16:50
Google rebrands Messenger as Android Messages in a move toward a universal texting app
If you fired up your Google Messenger app this morning, you might have noticed something different: It’s now called Android Messages. And while the new name doesn’t actually change anything about the way we use it, it could lead to big things down
2017-02-24 15:30
UN steps in to end marketing war over what 5G means
With mobile operators' marketing departments already throwing around claims about their 5G services, the United Nations is weighing in with its definition of what qualifies a network as next-generation.
2017-02-24 13:05
Trump expected to cut federal IT spending
President Donald Trump said this week that the federal budget is a "mess" and is promising to make it leaner. This means that federal IT spending -- now at $81.6 billion -- is likely to see cuts, analysts said.
2017-02-24 12:00
Has fraud met its match?
Many prognosticators have pronounced privacy a pipe dream. With the mountains of personal information on social networks and the lack of security awareness by many users, cybercriminals have more than a snowball’s chance to grab anyone’s identity.
2017-02-24 12:00
Container-friendly Alpine Linux may get Java port
Alpine Linux, a security-focused lightweight distribution of the platform, may get its own Java port. Alpine is popular with the Docker container developers, so a Java port could pave the way to making Java containers very small.
2017-02-24 08:05
US probe of drone collisions with aircraft points to birds
Investigations into reported collisions by drones with civil aircraft found that they were caused instead by birds, wires and posts, or structural failures unrelated to unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), a U.S. regulator said.
2017-02-24 01:48
Alphabet's Waymo raises stakes in self-driving race with Uber lawsuit
The road to develop self-driving cars might be paved with lawsuits. Waymo, a spin-off from Google's self-driving car initiative, is suing Uber for allegedly stealing its trade secrets.Â
2017-02-23 23:35
Stop using SHA1: It’s now completely unsafe
Security researchers have achieved the first real-world collision attack against the SHA-1 hash function, producing two different PDF files with the same SHA-1 signature. This shows that the algorithm's use for security-sensitive functions should be di