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Possible to subvert iOS to give FBI ability to brute-force the passcode, say security professionals
There's no easy fix and systems need to be replaced, security researchers said
If court order is upheld it could affect all encrypted devices, not just iPhones.
Google and Mozilla have backed Apple opposition to a court order
Unlicensed spectrum will play key roles in 4G, 5G and IoT
The payment will likely prompt debate over how to deal with a pervasive type of cybercrime
The newest version allows users to print hundreds of parts that assemble via ball-and-socket joints
Company receives patent for online voting interface
Government says its HPC systems can help energy efficiency, product development
Dell's DSS 9000 rack architecture will allow customers to decouple storage and computing resources
Scientists boast the new data transfer rate they've reached could download the entire HD version of the Game of Thrones series in one second.
Tim Cook says Apple is being asked to hack its own users
While chasing what seemed like a benign bug, a Google engineer discovered a remote code execution exploit.
Apparently $45 billion doesn't just grow on trees.
There could be big benefits for emergency-response teams
Yahoo Labs is no more, but Yahoo Research emerges to better sync research and product development
Ringing Bells' Freedom 251 aims to target a sweet spot in the Indian market
Three winners will be announced at the TED conference in 2020
A new infographic calculates that it would have cost $32,136,910 to duplicate the capabilities of a modern smartphone back in 1985.
Hackers can log into DVRs from RaySharp and six other vendors using a six-digit hard-coded root password
An article on KDE Neon riled up the Linux community, so I dug a little deeper to try to clarify the situation.
LG makes official a new G4 Stylus 2 as pre-announcement to Mobile World Congress
Engineers sort through security events to flag the incidents that need investigation
Customers can write their own attack scenarios to test their network security controls
Hardware encryption boosts performance, integrated security software helps spot intrusion attempts
At Cisco Live Europe, Cisco announces new solutions to help make digital transformation easier for large enterprises.
A court in California ordered Apple to assist the FBI to crack an iPhone
Beware of Microsoft Word document attachments that use macros
The FBI said it was unable to access password-coded encrypted content on the iPhone 5c
More than half of suspicious real estate ads are never flagged for removal by Craigslist
The slow but power-sipping LTE Category M technology is coming out in a chip for devices
Man-in-the-middle attacks are just one possibility thanks to this new - but old - vulnerability
IBM sees blockchain expanding beyond bitcoin financial transactions
Forget ferrous hard drives and flash drives. 'Eternal,' glass-based memory using technology similar to Polaroid sunglasses filtering will allow digital copies to survive the human race, say researchers.
As organizations increasingly want to draw insights and understanding from the plethora of data available to them, the market for smart analysis and visualization is blooming.
The IoT playground is being designed to give potentially dangerous technologies a realistic urban testing ground.
'Data are your customers, are your business, are you,' one executive says
Lifespan labeling could be the next big thing, as Germany wants manufacturers to tell us how long electronic devices will last
As the Democrats and Republicans argue over when to nominate a replacement for the late Antonin Scalia, here are my nominations for adding a techie to the Supreme Court.
AWS released a new gaming service, but the SLA for it got all the attention
Versions 4.6.1 and 4.4.4 of the Xen hypervisor don't include the complete fixes for two known vulnerabilities
The IBM z13s is the new entry point to the company's z Systems mainframes
Here's a counter-intuitive one for you. Microsoft acquires one of the best-known vendors making iOS and Android third-party keyboards. But this deal has nothing to do with keyboards.
A study found that cybersecurity insurance is making companies more likely to pay up when confronted by a ransomware attack.
The Fysbis Trojan runs without root and has an extensible, modular architecture
The chief of Germany's 5G Lab explains how ultra-fast, ultra-low-latency 5G will use commodity hardware to control driverless cars and billions of IoT devices.
AWS will buy Italian HPC software vendor Nice to add to its as-a-service offering
