Analysis: Using a zero-day flaw to bypass an iPhone’s security is still a backdoor. With the potential to affect hundreds of millions of iPhone owners, will the FBI keep the flaw to itself?
Source: If the FBI found its own iPhone backdoor, should it show Apple? | ZDNet
For small businesses and consumers without enterprise deployment tools, a clean install of the aging Windows 7 can take a full day. And the problem’s getting worse. Here’s why.
Source: Sticking with Windows 7? The forecast calls for pain | ZDNet
The OS is based on Linux, features the Gnome user interface and includes security experts’ favorite part of the kernel, grsecurity.
Source: Subgraph will be Snowden’s OS of choice – but it’s not quite ready for humans yet
The “total war” on Trump is not bringing unity.
Source: The Anonymous attack on Donald Trump is setting off a hacker civil war
Eight years after cloud computing burst onto the scene, the term still causes confusion.
Source: We All Know We Need the Cloud. But What Is It, Exactly?
The ability to run the Android OS as a fully functional desktop on PCs took a giant leap forward this month with a release that merges the Android-x86 Project with Jide Technology’s Remix OS distribution. Android-x86 Project developer Chih-Wei Huang late last month announced on the project’s website a partnership with Jide. He started the Android-x86 Project in 2009.
Source: Remix OS Fills Android Desktop Void
(Reuters) – Hackers using tactics and tools previously associated with Chinese government-supported computer network intrusions have joined the booming cyber crime industry of ransomware, four security firms that investigated attacks on U.S. companies said.
Source: Security firms claim Chinese hackers are behind U.S. ransomware attacks
The recent cyber attack on Bangladesh’s central bank that let hackers stole over $80 Million from the institutes’ Federal Reserve bank account was reportedly caused due to the Malware installed on the Bank’s computer systems.
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