Day: December 3, 2019

Android Ups the Mobile Security Ante with Default TLS Encryption

More than 90 percent of Android apps running on the latest OS encrypt their traffic by default. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Shopping on phones powers higher, boosting Cyber Monday to new records – CNET

As expected, Cyber Monday became the biggest US e-commerce sales day in US history, reaching $9.4 billion. …read more Source:: CNet


Smith & Wesson Is Magecart’s Latest Target

Researchers estimate the gun manufacturer’s website was compromised sometime before Black Friday. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Cracks in the Greenland Ice Sheet Are Producing Massive Waterfalls, Raising Scientists’ Concerns For Sea Level Rise

At its peak, one meltwater lake drained the equivalent of an Olympic-size swimming pool every three seconds. From a report: A cerulean lake consisting of glacial meltwater on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, located about 18 miles from where the Store Glacier meets the sea in west Greenland, briefly became one of the…


NASA nudges back Boeing Starliner test flight to ISS – CNET

The International Space Station will have to wait a couple of extra days before meeting Boeing’s Starliner for the first time. …read more Source:: CNet


Serverless Kubernetes containers: Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate

AWS Kubernetes users can now run serverless containers. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Siemens Offers Workarounds for Newly Found PLC Vulnerability

An undocumented hardware-based special access feature recently found by researchers in Siemens’ S7-1200 can be used by attackers to gain control of the industrial devices. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Den Automation Raised Millions To ‘Reinvent’ the Light Switch. Now It’s Lights Out For Startup

Den Automation, the once-promising UK smart home startup that raised nearly $5.8 million via equity crowdfunding and boasted former Amstrad chief Bob Watkins as CEO, has agreed to go into liquidation, The Register reported Tuesday. From the report: Documents seen by this publication show Wilkin Chapman Business Solutions Limited has been appointed as liquidators, with…


AWS launches EC2 instance based on custom-built Inferentia chip

At AWS re:Invent, AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced new cloud instances based on a custom-built machine learning inference chip …read more Source:: ZDNet


AWS Graviton 2: What it means for Arm in the data center, cloud, enterprise, AWS

With Graviton2, AWS is making it clear that it is serious about Arm processors in the data center as well as moving cloud infrastructure innovation at its pace. …read more Source:: ZDNet