
Google Home disrupts Android phones
Guests get up in arms
It's only a few days since I reviewed Google Home but today it caused not only extreme embarrassment but distress to visitors here on the British May Day bank holiday.

Intel based broadband modem has security hole
Puma 6 is a "cat has trophy"
Chipzilla’s Puma 6 Intel cable modem variants are highly susceptible to a very low-bandwidth denial-of-service attack.

Galaxy S8 eye iris unlocking in near dark
Hands on: Snapdragon 835 version
There is no doubt that the Samsung Galaxy S8 is one of the most widely anticipated phones that will shape the first half of 2017, and the USA and Chinese customers are getting the Snapdragon 835 version while Europe and the rest of the world is stuck with the Exynos 8895 version.

Wikileaks exposes CIA’s weeping angel
Don’t blink
Russian security services mouthpiece, Wikileaks, has just released something that Vladimir Putin’s finest have discovered about the CIA’s tools to hack Samsung tellies.

Trump fails to create cyber security team
But promises to arrest Julian Assange
Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump has missed a deadline to create a cyber security team which was supposed to keep the Russians out of US networks.

Macs are an attack magnet
460,000 malware samples uncovered
The myth that Macs were somehow more secure than other operating systems too another battering today in the latest Threat Report by McAfee Labs.

Online security is getting worse
IBM warning
Biggish Blue has issued a warning about the poor state of online security and claimed that things are getting worse.

Security breaches increase 86 percent
Gemalto figures
Beancounters at Gemalto have released the findings of the Breach Level Index revealing that 1,792 data breaches led to almost 1.4 billion data records being compromised worldwide during 2016, an increase of 86 percent compared to 2015.

Spooks were hacking Apple gear for decades
All the while people were saying it was impossible
The Central Intelligence Agency was bugging iPhones and Macs through-out the period that the Apple users claimed they were safe from intrusion.

Apple insists that Turks cannot bring down its cloud
But it would say that even if they could
Fruity tax-dodging cargo-cult Apple has reassured its legions of fans in the media that there is no way that Turkish hackers can bring down its entire operation.