Todd Ackerman reports: MD Anderson Cancer Center is ousting three scientists in connection with concerns China is trying to steal U.S. scientific research, the first such publicly disclosed punishments since federal officials directed some institutions to investigate specific professors in violation of granting agency policies. MD Anderson took the actions after receiving e-mails last...
Catalin Cimpanu reports: In a document published today, the European Commission has revealed that they don’t have any actual evidence of Kaspersky software being used for spying on behalf of the Russian government, as the US government alluded in 2017. The document was the Commission’s reply to a series of questions submitted by Gerolf...
Seen on Twitter. This is brilliant :))) Apparently Shawn is the HR boss. pic.twitter.com/N45GxdtwOa — Mladen Prajdic (@MladenPrajdic) April 11, 2019 [The image shows a “Password Change Sign Up Sheet” where employees can list their current password and the one they’d like it changed to. After a few employees signed up publicly that way,...
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A security researcher has published today proof-of-concept code for an unpatched Google Chrome vulnerability. The security flaw has been fixed in V8, Chrome’s JavaScript engine, but the fix has not yet reached the browser’s stable version –v73– the one used by an estimated over one billion users. Read more on ZDNet.
Holly Ober reports: Fatemah Alharbi breaks things in order to learn how to fix them. Not just any old things. Computer operating systems, to be exact, and she conducted research that earned public gratitude from Apple. If she doesn’t look like a hacker that’s because she isn’t, really. She’s a doctoral candidate in computer...