GitHub acquires Semmle to speed up bug hunting in open source projects
GitHub bolsters security features with the acquisition code analysis engine QL from Semmle.
GitHub bolsters security features with the acquisition code analysis engine QL from Semmle.
Australia may have taken it easy for the holiday season, but hackers weren’t easing off during the festivities.
David Braue | 08 Jan | Read more
US lays charges against employees of Chinese private firm accused of working for the Chinese government.
The Australian government has had a mixed bag of outcomes this year around cybersecurity, with many lauding its leadership in the area
David Braue | 29 Aug | Read more
When NASA showed off its D-Wave 2X quantum computer on Tuesday, engineers were keen to talk about the computer's capabilities but less so about security measures that might be in place to stop hackers.
Martyn Williams | 10 Dec | Read more
Qualcomm hit with European antitrust probe...Intel slows down Moore's Law...Law enforcement shuts down hacking forum...and more tech news.
IDG News Service staff | 16 Jul | Read more
Some firms are researching how to get rid of a driver, but Jaguar Land Rover is focusing on reading their brainwaves to predict car accidents.
Margi Murphy | 20 Jun | Read more
Francis Trentley was the CIO of the White House during the George W. Bush administration and oversaw that office's biggest ever technical transformation. Today, he is the Senior Director at Akamai Technologies. At the recent Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit, he delved into the ever-evolving cyber-threat-landscape and examined how traditional defences need to evolve.
Anthony Caruana | 03 Sep | Read more
Taking a page from NASA's rocket powered landing craft from it most recent Mars landing mission, the European Space Agency is showing off a quadcopter that the organization says can steer itself to smoothly lower a rover onto a safe patch of the rocky Martian surface.
Michael Cooney | 08 Jul | Read more
After twenty years, a vulnerability in Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO), an extremely efficient compression algorithm, has finally been patched. The flaw, a subtle integer overflow, existed for as long as it did because of the practice of recycling code in the development community.
Steve Ragan | 27 Jun | Read more
Over the centuries the building trades have learned from their mistakes and set up complex systems of checks and balances that not only works but could serve as a model for network security, attendees at the Security Bsides Boston 2014 conference were told.
Tim Greene | 14 May | Read more
A British man has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into a systems owned by the US military and government, allegedly using SQL injection attacks to take control of "thousands" of computer networks.
Matthew Finnegan | 29 Oct | Read more
A British man has been charged with hacking into U.S. government computers and stealing personal data about thousands of employees, then bragging about it on Twitter.
Jeremy Kirk | 29 Oct | Read more
The device looks like a small piece of carry-on luggage, but it has a more important job than carrying a toothbrush, deodorant and a couple of pairs of underwear.
Grant Gross | 26 Sep | Read more
Space weather, like solar flares and geomagnetic storms, are knocking out satellites that people rely on to check out their Facebook pages, to tweet and to watch TV.
Sharon Gaudin | 17 Sep | Read more