‘Clerical error’ causes major screw-up… misery loves company at UK’s largest ‘leccy retailer Just because you want something badly doesn’t mean you can will it to happen. This is what Dixons found out today when it was forced to re-issue a trading statement, with the first one saying sales had grown. (Spoiler: they hadn’t.)… …read…

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he had a “great discussion” with U.S. President Donald Trump over a digital tax planned by Paris and said the two countries would work together to avoid a rise in tariffs. From a report: The two leaders agreed to the truce after Paris offered to suspend down payments…

Clearly, curves and topography were not factored in. …read more Source:: CNet

Owners of the original Play:5, Connect, Connect:Amp and more won’t get new features, although the devices will continue to function. …read more Source:: CNet

New versions of the ransomware now sniff out saved credentials for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Google Chrome and Microsoft Outlook. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Traditional data-leak prevention is not enough for businesses facing today’s dynamic threat landscape. …read more Source:: DarkReading

CVE-2020-0674 is a critical flaw for most Internet Explorer versions, allowing remote code execution and complete takeover. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Sheryl Sandberg was in London on Tuesday to speak about Facebook’s continued investment in the UK. …read more Source:: CNet

Uber is testing a new feature that gives some drivers in California the ability to set their fares, the latest in a series of moves to give them more autonomy in response to the state’s new gig-economy law. From a report: Starting Tuesday morning, drivers who ferry passengers from airports in Santa Barbara, Palm Springs…

Redmond’s own security tools could be abused to create hard-to-scrub infections The encryption technology Microsoft uses to protect its own file system could also be turned into a weapon for ransomware attackers.… …read more Source:: Register