Security

Siemens and Airbus to push electric aviation engines

Companies want to jointly develop engine prototypes with power classes ranging from a few 100 kilowatts up to 10 and more megawatts, for short, local trips

The latest Flash zero-day was used to spread Cerber ransomware

Adobe plans to patch the flaw on Thursday

Hyperconverged infrastructure requires policy-based security

When adopting HCI, enterprises must look at security through the lens of the application versus the network.

Obama won’t advocate to crack encryption

While Congress considers backdoors, president sits on the fence

The birth of IT: The IBM System/360 turns 52

The roots of IBM mainframes, IT run through the System/360

UPDATE: UL responds to blogger’s criticism

Your car’s computers might soon get malware protection

Karamba Security's technology detects and prevents malware from running on a car's computers

Home IoT devices are wide open, security provider discovers

Vulnerable protocols, insufficient authentication and lack of encryption are among the holes found in widely used domestic IoT products

Apple believes it can patch the iOS security exploit used by the FBI

Want a meteorite? Christie’s set to auction unique space rocks

Christie’s London offering all manner of cool meteorites