Month: May 2017
Cybercriminals use SS7 telco flaw to steal from bank accounts
Customers of O2 in Germany were affected by the attack
Uber facing criminal probe over data-mining Greyball software
Tool used by Uber mined users' social media and credit card data
NASA offers $15,000 prize as incentive for developers to improve the performance of its legacy Fortran code
$15,000 on offer for helping to supercharge NASA's simulation software
Sainsbury’s hires Telefonica’s Phil Jordan as group CIO
Jordan will have spent eight years as group CIO of Telefonica when he leaves to join Sainsbury's
Intel admits ‘metallic’ rebrand for forthcoming Skylake-based Xeon CPUs
Xeon Processor Scalable family coming in mid-2017 will be branded from Bronze to Platinum
Microsoft prepping ‘secured’ Edge browser for businesses
Secure browser will run in Hyper-V instance to prevent PCs from being pwned by online malware
Coalition of technology companies call for investigation into ‘troubling’ Apple and Google app store practices
Dominant technology giants accused of abusing their market position in mobile app stores to squeeze out rivals
Leaked UK government plans to extend web surveillance would mandate encryption back doors
Government using last year's Investigatory Powers Act to extend web surveillance and undermine encryption