Dallas emergency management officials continue to investigate a hack that activated all 156 emergency tornado sirens citywide for about 90 minutes early Saturday. The city declared the sirens were activated Friday night in a hack that officials believe came from the Dallas area. The event was a warning that businesses and organizations, including cities and…
Attackers have been exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word for the past few months to compromise computers and infect them with malware. The first report about the attacks came Friday from antivirus vendor McAfee after the company’s researchers analyzed some suspicious Word files spotted a day earlier. It turned out that the files were…
Annoyed with the U.S. missile strike last week on an airfield in Syria, among other things, hacker group Shadow Brokers resurfaced on Saturday and released what they said was the password to files containing suspected National Security Agency tools they had earlier tried to sell. “Is appearing you are abandoning ‘your base’, ‘the movement’, and…
A group of hackers who claimed to hold millions of iCloud accounts for ransom said on Friday they’d been paid. But one bitcoin expert says that’s bogus. The Turkish Crime Family grabbed headlines last month by claiming they had the stolen login credentials for more than 700 million icloud.com, me.com and mac.com accounts. They demanded…
The U.S. Department of Labor says Google discriminates against female employees in pay at a level that’s even worse than the tech industry as a whole. The department has found “systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,” Labor Department Regional Director Janette Wipper testified in a court in San Francisco on…
Intel’s large-capacity Optane is like the Ferrari of storage: It’s super fast, it’s cool and it’s expensive. Also, it isn’t for everyone yet. That was reiterated by Intel when it introduced its first large capacity SSD, the Optane SSD DC P4800X, last month. The 375GB DC P4800X is aimed at high-end applications. Optane is also…
Microsoft this week boosted by 28% its claim of how much enterprises can save by deploying Windows 10. The revised estimate came from a Microsoft-commissioned analysis first done in mid-2016 by Forrester Research. Then, Forrester said the per-worker savings over a three-year stretch would be $404. To reach that number, the research firm interviewed four…
Business users get access to their own version of the Windows 10 beta program this week. On Friday, Microsoft unveiled the Windows Insider Program for Business, alongside its first post-Creators Update Windows 10 beta. The program will let business users sign up for beta updates with their Azure Active Directory credentials, rather than a personal…
Having successfully delivered the Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft engineers are onto their next project: writing the code that will make up “Redstone 3,” the next major update to Windows 10. But where’s Windows 10 Mobile in all this? Microsoft pushed Build 16170 of Windows 10 to the Fast Ring on Friday, an otherwise bland update…
When the source code to a suspected Russian-made malware leaked online in 2013, guess who used it? A new release from WikiLeaks claims the U.S. CIA borrowed some of the code to bolster its own hacking operations. On Friday, WikiLeaks released 27 documents that allegedly detail how the CIA customized its malware for Windows systems. The…