Trump, Russia and China refuse to sign online threats agreement
Ignoring French call
French President Emmanuel Macron is joining with US technology giants, including Microsoft, pushing for governments and companies worldwide to sign up for a new initiative aimed at establishing regulations for the internet, to fight such online threats as cyber-attacks, hate speech and online censorship.
Big Content declares war on the Swiss
You are all pirates
It seems that Swiss neutrality will not protect it from Big Content lobby groups which are trying to drag the country into a conflict with the United States.
Oracle’s patching process sparks zero-day release
Oh those Russians
A Russian security researcher who was so miffed at the glacial pace of Oracle’s patching released details of a zero-day vulnerability without warning them.
Amazon to sell Apple gear
Long term rivals bury the hatchet
Apple and Amazon have buried the hatchet only a few years after Jobs’ Mob arranged a pricing cartel to shut the book seller out of the ebook market.
Security flaws found in some SSDs
Bypass the password process
Researchers at Radbound University in the Netherlands have found that that major flaws in some Solid State Drives (SSDs) allow an attacker to bypass the password-based authentication process and access encrypted data stored on the drives.