Computer Sciences
In 1988 when the internet was still in its infancy, a piece of malware known as the Morris Worm infected nearly 10 percent of the internet over the course of two days, eventually instigating between $100 thousand and $10 ...
Jul 9, 2021
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Internet
Fastly, the company hit by a major outage that caused many of the world's top websites to go offline briefly this week, blamed the problem on a software bug that was triggered when a customer changed a setting.
Jun 9, 2021
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Software
While a fix emerged three weeks ago for the security bug affecting the WebKit browser engine used by Apple products such as iPhone and Mac, Apple has yet to implement the fix. Researchers at the security firm Theori have ...
Consumer & Gadgets
The owners of Eufy security cameras have announced a critical privacy bug. According to user reports on the Eufy parent company Anker's forums as well as Reddit, Eufy users can now access the camera feeds of strangers, including ...
Software
Lauded for years as the system able to best prevent malware infection, macOS recently fell victim to an operating system vulnerability that hackers used to circumvent all of Apple's system defenses.
Software
Software bugs have been a concern for programmers for nearly 75 years since the day programmer Grace Murray Hopper reported the cause of an error in an early Harvard Mark II computer: a moth stuck between relay contacts. ...
Computer Sciences
The cycle of open source software (OSS) development and gender representation is, perhaps, unsurprising—women are vastly underrepresented among OSS developers. As a result, women miss out on development and professional ...
Dec 5, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
A team of leading security researchers was recently crowned top hackers after finding vulnerabilities across multiple devices including an Alexa-powered Amazon Echo and a Samsung Galaxy S10.
Nov 11, 2019
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Computer Sciences
The automated labeling and severity prediction of bug reports for computer software is the target of researchers at The Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan. Details of their efforts are mapped out in the International Journal ...
Aug 20, 2019
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Security
Intel has revealed another hardware security flaw that could affects millions of machines around the world.
May 14, 2019
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