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A contraceptive app used by more than 500,000 women has come under fire after reportedly causing 37 unwanted pregnancies. Stockholm’s Södersjukhuset hospital has now reported the Natural Cycles app to the Swedish Medical Products Agency […]
Transmission, one of the most used non-commercial BitTorrent clients, has a vulnerability that allows outsiders to gain control over people’s computers. The flaw affects users who have remote control enabled with the default password. The […]
Automation and SCADA-flingers admit fix has affected products Patches for the Meltdown vulnerability are causing stability issues in industrial control systems. SCADA vendor Wonderware admitted that Redmond’s Meltdown patch made its Historian product wobble. “Microsoft […]
Big Red finally delivers patches for its x86 boxes – and 230-plus other problems Oracle has told users of its SPARC-powered platforms that they have the Spectre processor design flaw. A support document buried in […]
While the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency says a false missile alert was not a hack, a password in a photo has drawn criticism of its security practices. Source: Hawaii emergency agency password in photo sparks […]
There’s a new bug floating around called “chaiOS” that appears to be a basic GitHub link. However, when you text it to a person via the iMessage app (whether on iOS or MacOS), it will […]
Ubisoft has a history of premature software releases, but here’s one you might not mind. The developer has confirmed that it inadvertently released its Assassin’s Creed Origins add-on The Hidden Ones to Xbox One users […]
A highly complex online advertising system makes it hard for big name publishers to find, let alone stop, misleading, malware-laden, and hard-to-close ads. Source: A New Wave Of Bad Ads Is Hijacking Even Top-Tier Websites
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich sold off a major stake in the company in November, months after the chipmaker learned of a significant security flaw in its chips. Source: Intel CEO Krzanich sold shares after company […]
Disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, which affect mainly Intel CPUs, was handled “in an incredibly bad way” by both Intel and Google, the leader of the OpenBSD project Theo de Raadt claims. Source: […]