Phishing scams continue to be an effective method. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Staff are still falling for phishing scams, with social media friend requests and emails pretending to come from the HR department among the ones most likely to fool workers into handing over usernames and passwords. Phishing scams aim to trick staff into handing over data — normally usernames and passwords — by posing as legitimate email. […]
SINGAPORE – A 30-year-old Malaysian man was arrested at the Woodlands Checkpoint on Saturday (Mar 11) after he was found to be carrying 1.38kg of heroin into the country. In a joint release on Monday (Mar 13), the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority and the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) said that a checkpoint officer sent the man, who arrived on a Malaysian-registered motorcycle, for further inspections at about […]
Volkswagen Volkswagen has already taken a battering to its reputation due to the emissions scandal and is now tarnished further as the automaker has pleaded guilty to criminal charges as part of a settlement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ). On Friday, the automaker pleaded guilty in a Detroit federal court to felonies in connection with the 2015 emissions scandal. For years, the company sold a’clean […]
Stock photo The price of Bitcoin plummeted after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) denied a request to bring Bitcoin to the financial market, highlighting how the value of the virtual currency can change within minutes. In February, the virtual currency’s value reached an all-time high of over $1,300 with investors taking a punt on rumors SEC would allow the first Bitcoin ETF. An exchange-traded fund […]
HPE and SUSE, a top Linux distributor, have a complex relationship. First, HPE spun and merged its non-core software assets with Micro Focus. Micro Focus owns SUSE, a major Linux provider. Now, SUSE has finished acquiring cloud assets of HPE’s OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Stackato, HPE’s Cloud Foundry implementation. SUSE will develop clouds while HPE will sell, support, and maintain them in their […]
Charlie Osborne | ZDNet Neural networking could pave the way for AI systems to be given a capability which we have, until now, considered a human trait: the possession of common sense. While some of us may have less of this than others, the idea of “common sense” — albeit a vague concept — is the general idea of making fair and good decisions in what is […]
DAVAO CITY , Philippines – The government and communist rebels have agreed to resume peace talks and restore the truce following an escalation of deadly clashes. Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza yesterday said the government and rebel negotiators would resume talks early next month and discuss the terms of a broader ceasefire. Dureza said the decision to resume the peace talks came after backchannel […]
BERLIN Germany’s interior minister said on Sunday there were “clear limits” if Turkish ministers want to campaign among immigrants in Germany, striking a tougher tone than the previous line from Berlin as a row between Ankara and EU states escalates. Thomas de Maiziere told broadcaster ARD he did not support ministers campaigning in Germany. “You have to carefully consider whether one imposes a ban on entry. But […]
Ransomware has become one of the most notorious threats on the web. Image: iStock No wonder ransomware has become one of the biggest menaces on the web; a third of organisations across the globe which became infected by the file-encrypting malware in the past 12 months gave into the demands of hackers in order to regain access to their locked data. With attacks of this kind being […]
This chart shows the fraction of JavaScript library versions with distinct known vulnerabilities, each represented by colors, out of the total library versions in brackets. Image: Northeastern University An analysis of over 133,000 websites has found that 37 percent of them have at least one JavaScript library with a known vulnerability. Researchers from Northeastern University have followed up on research in 2014 that drew attention to potential […]
Everspin has shipped over 60 million MRAM chips in the last eight years. So why haven’t you heard of them? MRAM is a different type of nonvolatile memory, with unlimited durability, good speed – 35nsec reads and writes – 20+ years of data durability, lower power consumption than flash, byte addressability, and the ability to endure extreme temperatures. It also costs much more than flash. As such […]
Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA removes the “I’m not a robot”checkbox but can still sort bots from people. Image: Google Google has released a new invisible reCAPTCHA test for telling the difference between humans and bots accessing websites. The move takes one more step out of CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, which asks site visitors to prove they’re not bots by […]
Editor-in-chief of popular Malay daily says a discourse on the three issues – 1MDB, RM2.6 billion and BMF scandal – would be a better format than outright debate. KUALA LUMPUR: Sinar Harian has offered to organise the debate between Umno supreme council member Nazri Aziz and former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The Malay daily yesterday reported its editor-in-chief Norden Mohamed as saying the organisation would like […]
Earlier this week, Microsoft acknowledged that it has been working to bring Windows Server to ARM. But the way this announcement unfolded was rather confusing. Once the dust from the initial wave of press releases cleared, it turned out that Microsoft officially announced that it has been working with Intel, AMD, and two ARM vendors (Qualcomm and Cavium) to support Project Olympus, Microsoft’s next-generation cloud-hardware design it […]
IPOH: Investigations into human exploitation and child labour at an oil palm estate in Pengkalan Hulu has widened with one of the rescued 18 said to be a sex slave of the male suspect. It also led to the rescue later of a 14-year-old girl who has been sexually abused at another house in Kedah. In an SMS sent out to the press here, Perak CID chief […]
Flippy the robot is starting its culinary career with one simple task, but just like any rookie, it is learning on the job. With some practice and training, Flippy will be able to do everything from chopping vegetables to plating meals like a pro. Miso Robotics created the robot, which debuted in a kitchen at the restaurant chain CaliBurger in Pasadena, Calif., this week. “Flippy will initially […]
Do you have a network-attached storage (NAS) device holding your accounts payable, document archives, or just your baby photos? If so, you’re running Samba, the open-source file and print server. Now, with the Samba 4.6 release, the program has been given a significant upgrade. Samba, the open-source Linux/Unix file server has gotten a major update. Samba is also often used in Linux and Unix servers to provide […]
Good morning. Here’s our morning roundup of all the media news you need to know. Want to get this briefing in your inbox every morning? Subscribe here. British reporter Iona Craig went to the al Ghayil, the Yemeni town stormed by Navy SEALs in the raid that President Trump says was a great success even as it claimed the life of the operator whose widow was honored […]
It frightens the opposition as it will give an advantage to Prime Minister Najib Razak, says Umno information chief Annuar Musa. JERLUN: The ability of the government to resolve Malaysia’s diplomatic crisis with North Korea frightens the opposition as it will give an advantage to Prime Minister Najib Razak. In saying this, Umno information chief Annuar Musa added: “What is positive for the government is bad news […]
Josh Miller/CNET Update: Well, that was quick. Google has reposted the factory images and OTA files for the update, both of which are the same build number as what was pulled: N6F26U. Give the update a try and post in the comments if you run into any issues. Nexus 6 owners have taken to Reddit and Twitter to complain about issues when using Android Pay after the […]
The tier gives limited access to 15 services. (Image: Google) Stressing its fundamental commitment to openness, Google on Friday announced that it’s adding a free tier to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The tier gives limited access to 15 services, including Google Compute Engine (1 f1-micro instance per month in US regions and 30GB-months HDD), Google Cloud Storage (5GB a month), Google Pub/Sub (10GB of messages a […]
MEPs: Bankers, lawyers and accountants are “enablers” of tax avoidance A WIDE SUPPORT NETWORK of professional organisations “played a crucial role” in the biggest financial tax evasion scandal in world history, according to MEPs interrogating the circumstances and causes behind the Panama Papers tax scandal. Institutions of bankers, lawyers and accountants acted as “enablers and promoters of tax avoidance” allowing corporate and financial interests to slash trillions […]
Image: file We use URL shortening services so often these days we’re seldom even aware of them. Until, that is, one of them fails. Today, one of the most popular of these, Bitly, stopped working for some users. You may think of URL shorteners as something individuals use for shortening long web URLs. This is true, but companies also use them to promote their webpages on social […]
The Wikum interface provides readers with detailed summaries of online discussions. Credit: Jason Dorfman/MIT CSAIL From Reddit to Quora, discussion forums can be equal parts informative and daunting. We’ve all fallen down rabbit holes of lengthy threads that are impossible to sift through. Comments can be redundant, off-topic or even inaccurate, but all that content is ultimately still there for us to try and untangle. Sick of […]
