The latest malware from TA505 has been seen targeting banks, retailers and restaurants with two different versions. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Developer Bungie and publisher Activision are splitting up in an industry-shaking divorce that will see the shared world shooter series Destiny enter fully into Bungie’s control. From a report: This development comes after years of tension between the two companies — tension that has existed since before the first Destiny even shipped. Bungie, the studio…

Last year’s Gemini gets revamped with a new processor, backlit keyboard, rear camera and a fingerprint sensor. …read more Source:: CNet

Parts of the world will be excluded from the internet for decades to come without major efforts to boost education, online literacy and broadband infrastructure, experts have warned. From a report: While half the world’s population now uses the internet, a desperate lack of skills and stagnant investment mean the UN’s goal of universal access,…

First podcast of the new year! Editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys look back on the most interesting hacks and can’t-miss articles from the past week (or so). Highlights include abusing IPv6 addresses, underclocking WiFi, taking Wii out of the livingroom, scratch built microphones, computer prophecy coming true, and the end of an automotive era….

50.9% of of total IT turnover, according to analyst Abacus-strummer IDC has clocked that quarterly revenues of IT infrastructure (that’s servers, storage, and Ethernet switches) for the cloud have officially squeezed past sales into traditional environments.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

As the shutdown continues into its 21st day, dozens of .gov websites haven’t renewed their TLS certificates. …read more Source:: Threatpost

An anonymous reader shares a report: On Thursday, AT&T announced it was stopping the sale of its customers’ real-time location data to all third parties, in response to a Motherboard investigation showing how data from AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint trickled down through a complex network of companies until eventually landing the hands of bounty hunters…

Not long ago, machines grew their skills when programmers put their noses to the grindstone and mercilessly attacked those 104 keys. Machine learning is turning some of that around by replacing the typing with humans demonstrating the actions they want the robot to perform. Suddenly, a factory line-worker can be a robot trainer. This is…

A penetration testing tool called Modlishka can defeat two-factor authentication in the latest 2FA security issue. We asked a roundtable of experts what it all means. …read more Source:: Threatpost