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Bootrash Uses Volume Boot Record to Exploit Financial Services
Security vendor FireEye today is warning about the increased use of a new type of attack known as a bootkit. The FIN1 financial hacker...
Samsung Could Use Liquid Cooling in Galaxy S7 to Boost Performance
Samsung's next flagship smartphone, which will be the successor to the company's Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge+ phones, could be equipped with a liquid...
IDC Says PC Shipments Will Fall 10 Percent in Q4
The global PC market will continue to see a sharp decline in shipments in the current quarter, and the picture won't start improving until...
Security Worries Hamper Adoption of Cloud Technology
Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of IT professionals report that security concerns and lack of visibility are hindering their cloud adoption, according to a Netwrix...
Microsoft Courts OEMs With Windows 10 IoT Core
Windows 10 IoT Core, a lightweight version of the Windows operating system for Internet of things devices, runs on a variety of computing boards,...
Qualcomm Boosts China Efforts Through Xiaomi Licensing Deal
Qualcomm last week announced a patent licensing agreement with fast-rising Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, an important bit of good news for a chip-making company...
Health Insurers Test Their Security Capability With Cyber Exercise
A dozen health care insurance firms that cover 60 percent of the U.S. population took part in CyberRX 2.0, a cyber exercise aimed at...
Appeal of FCC Net Neutrality Decision Heard in Federal Court
The future of the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet order is in the hands of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals...
Google API Aimed at Enabling Apps to Understand Image Content
Google released a new API that it says will allow developers to build applications that can see and understand the content of images.Google's Cloud...
Microsoft Open-Sources ‘Chakra’ JavaScript Engine
Microsoft announced it is open-sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine that powers its Edge Web browser.The company made the announcement today at the JSConf US...