dinscott writes “During Social Engineer Capture the Flag contest, one of the most prominent and popular annual events at DEF CON 21, a pool of 10 men and 10 women, from diverse backgrounds and experience levels, tested their social engineering abilities against 10 of the biggest global corporations, including Apple, Boeing, Exxon, General Dynamics and…

The agency says in a statement that a report in an Italian magazine that it “has targeted” the Vatican is false…….

Want to be a third-party developer on Facebook? Prepare to duke it out with plenty of others…….

The Taiwanese government has expressed concerns over a mistake made by Apple on its new map app, which wrongly lists the island country as a province of China, demanding a correction as soon as possible…….

Apple says it knows of, and is working on a fix for a keyboard and trackpad issue on its new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display…….

Toll’s head of finance says so far so good, but CFOs will call more cloud and SaaS procurement shots…….

Looks like a distributed system, breaks like a single tenant……

astroengine writes “Kepler-78b may be an exoplanet notable for being approximately Earth-sized and likely possessing a rocky surface plus iron core, but that’s where any similarity to our planet ends. It has an extremely tight orbit around sun-like star Kepler-78, completing one ‘year’ in only 8.5 hours. It orbits so close in fact that the…

The founders of shuttered e-mail services Silent Mail and Lavabit — the latter used by NSA leaker Edward Snowden — want to bring easy-to-use, snoop-proof e-mail to everyone…….

The tech giant adds new information to its Glass Explorers forum about shade and shield partners, how charging and earbuds work, swapping out the device frames, and more…….