Day: February 18, 2020

Jeff Bezos bungs $10bn at climate change after chump change for Oz bush fires

Then goes and opens rocket engine factory Very wealthy bloke Jeff Bezos announced he would be spending billions on fighting climate change the same day his space rocket venture, Blue Origin, opened its Huntsville production facility.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


The Road(s) to Riches

You could be making millions in just two years! …read more Source:: DarkReading


Staircase to the Cloud: Dark Reading Caption Contest Winners

A humorous nod to the lack of gender equity in cybersecurity hiring was our judges’ unanimous choice. And the winners are … …read more Source:: DarkReading


Hacker Scheme Threatens AdSense Customers with Account Suspension

Scam threatens to flood sites using Google’s banner-ad program with bot and junk traffic if owners don’t pay $5K in bitcoin. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Israeli Soldiers Tricked Into Installing Malware By Hamas Agents Posing As Women

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Members of the Hamas Palestinian militant group have posed as young teenage girls to lure Israeli soldiers into installing malware-infected apps on their phones, a spokesperson for the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) said today. Some soldiers fell for the scam, but IDF said they detected the infections,…


8 Things Users Do That Make Security Pros Miserable

When a user interacts with an enterprise system the result can be productivity or disaster. Here are 8 opportunities for the disaster side to win out over the productive. …read more Source:: DarkReading


That’ll take the spring out of your step: Apple warns of iPhone shortages, revenue miss due to coronavirus

Factories ‘ramping more slowly than anticipated’ Apple said the COVID-19 epidemic in China has disrupted iPhone production to the point that it will lead to global shortages of the handset – and likely miss already widened revenue forecasts it set in January.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Python “preeminent” in O’Reilly learning platform usage analysis

Python is the top search term and top programming language, by usage, on O’Reilly’s learning platform, up on both from last year. Other analytics-relevant categories on the upswing include Kafka, data engineering, data science, and AI + ML. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Qualcomm launches Snapdragon integrated 5G modem, RF antenna system, in devices early 2021

Qualcomm will sample the Qualcomm X60, which has the ability to aggregate spectrum and different 5G technologies, in the first quarter. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Microsoft to bravely defend US democracy for a slack handful of voters in Fulton, Wisconsin

ElectionGuard guards real-life election Microsoft is in Fulton, Wisconsin, today to try its ElectionGuard electronic vote system in the primary election for the US state’s Supreme Court candidates.… …read more Source:: TheRegister