Japan’s nucke plant is a huge boiling kettle
The steam generates huge pressures inside the reactor vessel - a big, sealed container - and if the largely metal core gets too hot, it will just melt, with some components perhaps catching fire.
View ArticleAudio battlefield aims to help prepare new troops
Thundering bursts from M-16 assault rifles. Cursing as firefights begin. Explosions so powerful that troops don't just hear the deafening blasts, they feel them.
View Article$2.7 billion battlefield computer that doesn’t work
It has emerged that the multi-billion-dollar DCGS-A military computer system that was designed to help the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan simply doesn’t work. DCGS-A is meant to accrue intelligence,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Fixes Scary Bluetooth Flaw
Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 22 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. The sole critical patch from this month’s batch addresses an unusual Bluetooth...
View ArticleiPhone Security Hole Plugged By Apple’s Anti-Hacker iOS Software Update
Apple Inc has plugged a hole in the software that runs iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch music players that could allow hackers to take remote control of those devices. The security flaw came to light nine...
View ArticleInside the data centre of Las Vegas’ casinos
Las Vegas may be best known for the glamour of its ostentatious casinos, but behind all the fun there is some serious IT hardware handling the torrent of gambling transactions that flow through all...
View ArticleApple Laptop Security Flaw Found In Computer Batteries
A security researcher claims to have found a new security flaw in Apple laptops that could allow hackers to ruin laptop batteries, infect them with malware or potentially cause them to overheat and...
View ArticleGerman bank card scammer jailed in UK
A German scam artist who attempted to bring new bank card scamming technology into the UK has been jailed. Thomas Beeckmann was arrested at Victoria coach station in London after arriving from Holland...
View ArticleHow NOT to redact a PDF: Military radar secrets spilled
The UK Ministry of Defence has been caught out again by a schoolboy error – not knowing how to properly redact a PDF. If you’re an organisation that is making public an internal document, you best make...
View ArticleHackers steal data on nuclear plants and fighter jets
A high-tech military contractor, which suffered an attack from hackers earlier this year, is reported to have lost sensitive data related to defence equipment including fighter jet planes and nuclear...
View ArticleWhy ‘white hat’ hackers unveil security flaws
Apple sent a negative message that could prompt researchers to sell their discoveries to an underground market of criminally-minded hackers.
View ArticleJailbreakers use Apple crash reports to ‘free’ iPhones
Thousands of iPhone owners have joined forces with a team of hackers to help them find new ways to jailbreak Apple's phone software.
View ArticleTrain-switching technology creates huge hacking threat
The systems which switch trains from one line to another could be shut down if encryption keys went astray.
View ArticleApple iPad 2 and iPhone 4S finally fall to jailbreakers
Apple's most hacker-resistant hardware to date - the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S, which are built around the Apple A5 chip - can now be jailbroken.
View ArticleStrong network security in the cloud
CloudPassage unveiled Halo NetSec, an automated solution that provides advanced network access control for servers running in public clouds including Rackspace and Amazon EC2.
View ArticleF-Secure enters the content cloud
F-Secure Content Anywhere synchronizes a user’s content in the cloud, making it accessible on any device, anywhere and anytime of the day.
View ArticleGPS attacks risk maritime disaster, trading chaos
Satelite navigation systems are at risk from criminals, terrorists or even just bored teenagers, with the potential to cause major incidents from maritime disasters to chaos in financial markets.
View ArticleSony’s plan to tighten security and fight hacktivism
The ultimate goal of the SOC and the company's security department is to automate prevention capabilities so that the employees can concentrated on detecting intrusions and responding to them.
View ArticleHalf a million Mac computers ‘infected with malware’
Russian anti-virus firm claims that about 600,000 Macs have installed the malware - potentially allowing them to be hijacked and used as a "botnet".
View ArticleZeus targets cloud payroll service to siphon money from enterprises
With critical business services migrating to the cloud, service providers have become a prime target for cybercriminals.
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