Drone killer app saves Swedish lives
Sweden’s need to react more quickly to sudden out-of-hospital cardiac arrests may have given rise to the world’s first drone killer app. According to Andreas Claesson, chair of the...
Next, The Very Group and others see power in the platform
There is a retail trend under way, whereby traditional purveyors of goods to consumers are now creating tech-led services for fellow industry players. As is the case with many...
Zeroday in ubiquitous Log4j tool poses a grave threat to the Internet
Getty Images Exploit code has been released for a serious code-execution vulnerability in Log4j, an open-source logging utility that's used in countless apps, including those used by large enterprise organizations...
300,000 MikroTik routers are ticking security time bombs, researchers say
Getty Images As many as 300,000 routers made by Latvia-based MikroTik are vulnerable to remote attacks that can surreptitiously corral the devices into botnets that steal sensitive user data and...
Amazon kills off Alexa and it’s the right thing to do
Alexa.com doesn’t land you on Amazon’s infamous Alexa voice recognition ecosystem. Instead, it goes to a little-known service (albeit one still owned by Amazon) that, for a long time, was...
Malicious NPM packages are part of a malware “barrage” hitting repositories
Researchers have found another 17 malicious packages in an open source repository, as the use of such repositories to spread malware continues to flourish. This time, the malicious code was...
Tor is under threat from Russian censorship and Sybil attacks
The Tor anonymity service and anticensorship tool has come under fire from two threats in recent weeks: The Russian government has blocked most Tor nodes in that country, and hundreds...
Number of .uk domain suspensions at record low
The past 12 months have seen a dramatic fall in the number of .uk domain names suspended for criminal activity – such as phishing, fraud or other forms of...
API and networking issues disrupt services hosted in major US Amazon datacentre hub
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has confirmed that an application programming interface (API) issue in one of its major US datacentre regions is what led to an outage that took...
Verizon overrides users’ opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history
Verizon is automatically enrolling customers in a new version of a program that scans mobile users' browser histories—even when those same users previously opted out of the program when it...