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Ransomware for Mac is nothing to worry about — for now

Writing ransomware is easy, but getting it installed on Macs would be harder

Nov 10, 2015 3 mins

ProtonMail comes back online, shores up DDoS defenses

We're strong than ever, ProtonMail declares

Nov 10, 2015 3 mins

Ex-Juniper sibs look to soften up the WAN

Mehta brothers launch SDN start-up Versa Networks

Nov 10, 2015 2 mins

Network Security SDN Verizon

Three indicted in JPMorgan hacking case

Expanded charges link three men to JPMorgan hack, as well as other incidents

Nov 10, 2015 2 mins

Cybercrime Security

ARM is bringing some much needed security to the Internet of Things

ARM's TrustZone technology is coming to its Cortex-M embedded processors

Nov 10, 2015 3 mins

Internet of Things Security

How magnetic ID cards are becoming indestructable

A new magnetic memory technology that can't be erased through rough use is being developed.

Nov 10, 2015 3 mins

Enterprise Storage Security

First Linux ransomware program cracked, for now

The creators of the Linux.Encoder.1 ransomware program made errors when implementing encryption algorithms

Nov 10, 2015 3 mins

Comodo fixes bug that led to issue of banned digital certificates

The company issued new certs for internal hosts, which is now banned by the CAB Forum

Nov 9, 2015 2 mins

If one of Pluto’s moons spins any faster its surface might fly off

Pluto’s moons are some of the wackiest in known space world

Nov 9, 2015 2 mins

Careers Government Small and Medium Business

Cloud-Knackered Disease: The effects of the data breach epidemic

Exhaustion by data breach.

Nov 9, 2015 3 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Security