There’s a story that goes something like this: Chet Atkins was playing his guitar when someone remarked, ‘that guitar sounds great!’ Mr. Atkins immediately stopped playing and asked, ‘how does it sound now?’ While it’s true that the sound ultimately comes from you and your attention to expression, we feel that different pickups on the…

‘This can happen to anybody. There’s always learning in any crisis. And we were no exception’ CyberUK 21 SolarWinds’ chief exec has described the 18,000 customers who downloaded backdoored versions of its Orion software as a “very small” number while giving a speech to an infosec event.… …read more Source:: Register

Alphabet’s Google plans to double the size of its team studying artificial-intelligence ethics in the coming years, as the company looks to strengthen a group that has had its credibility challenged by research controversies and personnel defections. From a report: Vice President of Engineering Marian Croak said at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything…

The social network indefinitely suspended Trump from its platform after the deadly Capitol Hill riot in January. …read more Source:: CNet

GitHub adds support for FIDO2 security keys for Git over SSH to fend off account hijacking and further its plan to stick a fork in the security bane of passwords. …read more Source:: Threatpost

A patch for Adobe Acrobat, the world’s leading PDF reader, fixes a vulnerability under active attack affecting both Windows and macOS systems that could lead to arbitrary code execution. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Cross-section of a 35mm top hat DIN rail. One of the great things about the Internet is it lets people find out what other people are doing even if they normally wouldn’t have much exposure to each other. For example, in some businesses DIN rails are a part of everyday life. But for a long…

An ingenious attack on Android devices self-propagates, with the potential for a range of damage. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Let’s take a trip to Castle Dimitrescu, where we’ll uncover the gothic villain’s backstory and fate. …read more Source:: CNet

AI here, there and everywhere Think IBM’s latest attempt at relevance in the cloud world continued at its Think conference by giving its Cloud Pak for Data another beating with the AI stick and unleashing Watson on IT pros.… …read more Source:: TheRegister