Humans can turn anything into a competition. Someone always wants to be faster or drive a ball farther. Technical pursuits are no different, which is why a lot of people overclock or play regular expression golf. [Alok Menghrajani] sets himself some odd challenges. A few years ago, he hand-built a bootable floppy image that had…

The football player’s name was reportedly removed along with profanities, a racial slur and sexual references. …read more Source:: CNet

The Android phone will take on the Galaxy S9 and Pixel 2. …read more Source:: CNet

This week’s Fortnite season 5 challenges have a little bit of everything, but nothing you can’t handle. …read more Source:: CNet

Four intelligence leaders said it’s not as bad as 2016 — yet. …read more Source:: CNet

He’ll almost certainly get more than a three-hour tour for this A self-styled Anonymous hacker who attempted to flee the US in a sailboat has been convicted of two felonies for his role in a 2014 DDoS attack on a children’s hospital.… …read more Source:: Register

The fully-managed auditing and alerting service is one of multiple IOT services AWS has rolled out recently. …read more Source:: ZDNet

While casting blame for your local team’s loss on Sunday may make for great sports talk, asserting blame for your company’s data breach is an uncomfortable exercise of self-effacement. It is a matter that many company leaders are struggling with. According to a recent survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute, 67% of CISOs expect a…

Google Cloud announcements bring deep learning and big data analytics beyond data scientists, but enterprises will want more. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Phishing emails remain the number one delivery mechanism for ransomware. The ransomware attack on the Lansing Board of Water and Light in Michigan, which forced the utility to shut down its accounting system, email service and phone lines, succeeded because a single employee opened an attachment to a phishing email. …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine