The ransomware operators targeted an “unquoted path” vulnerability in iTunes for Windows to evade detection and install BitPaymer. …read more Source:: DarkReading

On Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook defended the company’s decision to remove a mapping app in Hong Kong, saying that the company received “credible information” from authorities indicating the software was being used “maliciously” to attack police. Bloomberg reports: Apple pulled HKmap.live from its App Store on Wednesday after flip-flopping between rejecting it and approving…

At many organizations, the attitude to securing software appears to be throwing a lot of technology at the problem, a new study finds. …read more Source:: DarkReading

For the second quarter in a row, Lenovo topped the list of vendors, while HP came in second, according to both IDC and Gartner. …read more Source:: ZDNet

JustAnotherOldGuy shares a report from Boing Boing: Early versions of the free/open Unix variant BSD came with password files that included hashed passwords for such Unix luminaries as Dennis Ritchie, Stephen R. Bourne, Eric Schmidt, Brian W. Kernighan and Stuart Feldman. Leah Neukirchen recovered an BSD version 3 source tree and revealed that she was…

Imperva said it accidentally exposed an internal server from where a hacker stole an AWS API key. …read more Source:: ZDNet

A hacker is selling the email addresses of 250,000 users of a Dutch sex-work forum — data that researchers say could be used for blackmail. …read more Source:: Threatpost

‘If only you could see what I’ve seen through your eyes’… A Japanese man indicted on Tuesday for allegedly attacking a 21-year-old woman last month appears to have found where his victim lived by analyzing geographic details in an eye reflection captured in one of her social media photos.… …read more Source:: Register

Video games can be serious business. …read more Source:: CNet

The Silverado is going racing and it sure sounds like the place to test a production off-road performance pickup. …read more Source:: CNet