Microsoft will unveil its latest Surface devices, which illustrate why the hardware fascination in Redmond may be the wrong path to take. Software anywhere trumps devices and services as a model…….

This is multi-egghunter Linux/x86 shellcode…….

littlekorea writes “The world’s largest web-scale users of MySQL have committed to one further upgrade to the Oracle-controlled database — but Facebook and Twitter are also eyeing off more open options from MariaDB and cheaper options from the NoSQL community. Who will pay for MySQL enterprise licenses into the future?”……

One hacker group claim to have bypassed the Apple iPhone 5s fingerprint reader. ZDNet spoke to the founder of a bypass-seeking bounty on how the alleged hack will be verified…….

A venture capitalist claimed he’d give $10K to the crowdfunded iPhone fingerprint hack bounty – and then represented the project at every press opportunity. The people behind istouchidhackedyet.com are furious…….

MojoKid writes “The Xbox One has both HDMI-in and HDMI-out capability. The point of HDMI-in is to allow you to hook up a cable box, with output then running from the Xbox One to your television. As it turns out, however, that’s not the only thing the Xbox One can do. Since the HDMI-in port…

Hackers in German say they bypassed the biometric security system by making a copy of a fingerprint photographed on a glass surface…….

The SEC on Monday will lift the ban on “general solicitation” and begin to allow companies to publicly talk about their fundraising efforts. Get ready to hear all about it…….

hypnosec writes with word that the Chaos Computer Club claims to have “managed to break Apple’s TouchID using everyday material and methods available on the web. Explaining their method on their website, the CCC hackers have claimed that all they did was photograph a fingerprint from a glass surface, ramped up the resolution of the…

Leaked Android build ’causes issues,’ is withdrawn……