Comcast customer portal vulnerabilities exposed sensitive data

Two serious security flaws in Comcast systems may have left home addresses and social security numbers up for grabs. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

This swallowable chip uses glowing bacteria to spot hidden illnesses

MIT researchers have created swallowable chips that can help identify blood in the gastrointestinal tract. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

5 best Chromebooks for school in 2018

These work for anyone else who want a top-notch laptop. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

How I learned to stop worrying and love USB Type-C

While the rest of the world is enthusiastically adopting the all-in-one USB Type-C standard, Microsoft and Apple are stubbornly sticking with their proprietary connectors. That's why I no longer carry a Surface or an iPhone when I travel. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Linux kernel bug: TCP flaw lets remote attackers stall devices

'SegmentSmack' Linux bug gives a remote attacker the means to knock out a system with minimal traffic. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

World's first four-bit 4TB SSDs for consumer devices coming this year

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@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Google AI on Raspberry Pi: Now You Get Official TensorFlow Support

Google's TensorFlow team makes it a whole lot easier to get AI up and running on a Raspberry Pi. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Show HN: Manage Gmail attachments like a pro with Dittach 2.0

The best Gmail freebie ever just got better. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Twilio beats Q2 estimates

For the year, Twilio sees total revenue of $585.5 million to $589.5 million, compared to $543 million expected by analysts. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Malicious Android apps infected with Windows keyloggers pulled from Google Play

145 apps contained underlying executables for Windows systems. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Fizzing up the new TLS security protocol

Facebook open-sources its Fizz library for the next-generation Transport Layer Security protocol. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Windows apps made on Linux hit by security fail

That Windows app you made on a Linux system actually isn't as protected from attacks as you thought. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Facebook CSO Alex Stamos departing, won't be replaced

The outspoken chief security officer has helped Facebook reorganize its security team, amid its ongoing effort to stop abuse of its platform. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Yale University discloses old school data breach

The data breach was discovered a decade too late to do anything about it. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

​Container adoption speeds up to the detriment of VMs

As containers grow more popular, virtual machine deployments are declining. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Microsoft's got a new plan for managing Windows 10 devices for a monthly fee

Microsoft is putting together a service aiming to take the pain out of procuring, provisioning and managing Windows 10 devices that it's currently calling the 'Microsoft Managed Desktop.' | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Windows 10 moves closer to killing off passwords with Edge WebAuthn logins

Windows Hello biometric login could soon be the key to all your favorite websites. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Dell XPS 13 now ships with Ubuntu 18.04 Linux

Want a top-flight laptop with a high-end Linux pre-installed? Then you'll want to check out Dell's latest XPS 13. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Windows scores a win over Linux as another state decides to switch

Around 13,000 workstations running OpenSuse will be migrated to a current version of Windows. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Hacking campaign uses old Microsoft Office flaws to create backdoors steal files

The Felixroot campaign deploys vulnerabilities that were exposed -- and patched -- last year in a bid to deploy file-stealing malware. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Flaw let researchers snoop on Swann smart security cameras

Anyone could watch and listen to the live stream from the internet-connected smart camera. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Qlik Acquires Podium Data as BI and Big Data Coalesce

BI visual analytics juggernaut Qlik acquires data prep/management startup Podium Data. The union gives Qlik end-to-end prowess and brings the BI and data lake/Big Data worlds a little bit closer together. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

​Microsoft PowerShell now available on Linux as an Ubuntu snap

PowerShell, the Windows shell language, is now available on Linux as an Ubuntu Snap! Believe it! | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

​Google Data Transfer Project will help you move your data between services

Google, together with Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook, is introducing the open-source Data Transfer Project, which will enable consumers to transfer their data directly from one service to another. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

How Fortnite approaches analytics, cloud to analyze petabytes of game data

Parent Epic Games has to process data from its flagship game, devices and micro services. Here's a look at Fortnite's AWS' powered architecture. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

​J.D. Power declares Verizon to be the top carrier

Who's really the best mobile carrier? J.D. Power's survey shows Verizon on top. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Venmo refuses to say why transactions are public by default

207 million transactions are public — and anyone can search them, | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Apple's lost decade, HyperCard

ZDNet's 20th anniversary: 1991. Thinking about those days gives me a headache. Back then, I was all Apple, all the time. It was not necessarily a good thing. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Microsoft crosses $100B annual revenue mark for the first time

Microsoft officials say the company also closed the highest number of multi-million-dollar deals ever across its commercial cloud during its fiscal 2018. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Nvidia and MIT get a step closer to 'Computer, enhance' image cleaning

Researchers are training neural network to clean images without seeing the original. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

How to add Linux to your Chromebook

With a sufficiently advanced Chromebook, you can now install and run Linux natively on it. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

How technology is saving PetSmart millions by eliminating sales fraud

The e-commerce investigations team at PetSmart is using fraud prevention technology that includes advanced machine learning and AI. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Thousands of US voters' data exposed by robocall firm

Each record contains a voter's name, address, and "calculated" political affiliation. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

​Mastercard to link crypto to fiat currency with new patent

Mastercard has patented a method and system for the 'linkage of blockchain-based assets to fiat currency accounts'. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

WTH Amazon? Prime Day Goes to the Dogs

In the first hours of Prime Day 2018, Amazon's website was going to the dogs. But it wasn't just Amazon's main sale site. The Amazon Web Services cloud was also having fits. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Thousands of Mega logins dumped online, exposing user files

Exclusive: Email addresses, passwords, and lists of file names were exposed. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

IBM's new Nabla containers are designed for security first

IBM claims its new container design is more secure than Docker or other containers by cutting operating system calls to the bare minimum and thereby reducing its attack surface as small as possible. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Hacking campaign targets iPhones with data-stealing, location-tracking malware

Campaign delivers fake versions of WhatsApp and Telegram to victims - and those behind it have tried to make it look like a Russian attack when it isn't. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Containers or virtual machines: ​Which is more secure?

IBM Research has created a new way to measure software security, Horizontal Attack Profile, and it's found a properly secured container can be almost as secure as a virtual machine. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

The return of Spectre

Two new ways to assault computers using Spectre-style attacks have been discovered. These can be used against any operating system running on AMD, ARM, and Intel processors. UPDATED: July 13, AMD comments on issue. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Google Cloud steps up storage game to court Hollywood, launches Filestore

Google Cloud Platform's Transfer Appliance is also generally available. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Microsoft introduces a free version of Teams, going head-to-head with Slack

Microsoft is making available starting today a preview version of its Teams group-chat service that is free and doesn't require a subscription to Office 365, plus other new collaboration tools. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Python language founder steps down

Guido van Rossum, the "Benevolent Dictator For Life" of Python, has had enough and is walking away from leading the popular open-source language. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

The return of Spectre

Two new ways to assault computers using Spectre-style attacks have been discovered. These can be used against any operating system running on AMD, ARM, and Intel processors. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Is iOS 11.4 draining your iPhone's battery?

Have you noticed that your battery doesn't last as long since you installed iOS 11.4 on your iPhone? You're not alone. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

​Minimal Ubuntu for containers and clouds

Canonical has a new Ubuntu release just for servers, containers, and clouds. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Firefox and the 4yr battle to have Google to treat it as a first-class citizen

Web monoculture is well and truly alive when Google cannot be bothered to make a full-featured cross-browser mobile search page. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago

Fitness app Polar exposed locations of spies and military personnel

Location data revealed the home addresses of intelligence officers -- even when their profiles were set to private. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 6 years ago