WhatsApp Is Down, Facebook's New Acquisition Confirms Server Issues
WhatsApp is currently experiencing an outage. Users around the world are reporting that they can't send messages, and WhatsApp just confirmed this problems with a tweet stating “sorry we currently ex...
Behind iPhone's Critical Security Bug, a Single Bad ‘Goto’
Like everything else on the iPhone, the critical crypto flaw announced in iOS 7 yesterday turns out to be a study in simplicity and elegant design: a single spurious “goto” in one part of Apple's auth...
Samsung Gear 2 smartwatches coming in April with Tizen OS and better battery life
Even in an industry known for evolving at an impossibly quick pace, it's rare for a product to be replaced in just five months. If you've read our review of Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch, however ...
Ford Said to Drop Microsoft for BlackBerry's QNX in Sync System
Ford Motor Co. (F), struggling with in-car technology glitches, will base the next-generation Sync system on BlackBerry Ltd. (BBRY)'s QNX and no longer use Microsoft (MSFT) Corp.'s Windows, according ...
Apple promises fix “very soon” for Macs with failed encryption
(Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Saturday it would issue a software update “very soon” to cut off the ability of spies and hackers to grab email, financial information and other sensitive data from Mac c...
New Samsung Gear 2 / Neo Smartwatches (Gold is Best!) shown in leaks
We're expecting to see Samsung unveil an update to their Galaxy Gear Smartwatches in Barcelona next week and of course that means electronics leaker @evleaks has them for us this week. It seems that ...
Apple, Samsung confirm failure of settlement effort in early February but keep talking
In January, Apple and Samsung informed Judge Lucy Koh, the federal district judge presiding over two patent infringement cases between them in the Northern District of California, that they were going...
How Silicon Valley emerged as the destination of choice for bankers after 2008 Wall St. crisis
Go West, Young Bank Bro — Wall Street has ceased to be the career destination of choice for a certain kind of status seeker. Guess where that person wants to work now.
Neiman Marcus Hackers Set Off 60,000 Alerts While Bagging Credit Card Data
The hackers who raided the credit-card payment system of Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. set off alerts on the company's security systems about 60,000 times as they slunk through the network, according to an...
Twitter, Other Apps Disrupted in Venezuela Amid Protests
The Venezuelan government, besieged by nationwide protests, appears to have stepped up its censorship of Internet services used by demonstrators and sites that have criticized the government response ...
The Google Smartwatch Is Real, And It's Coming Soon (But Maybe Not Too Soon)
Google's long-rumored smartwatch is real, and still “officially” expected to begin shipping in mid to late March. However, many members of the smartwatch team inside Google believe that date will eit...
Source code for Android iBanking bot surfaces on underground forum
Leaked source code could lead to a larger number of attacks using the mobile malware, security researchers from RSA said — The source code for an Android mobile banking Trojan app was released on an...
Q&A: Line Executive on WhatsApp and the Power of Messaging
All eyes are on smartphone messaging apps now that Facebook has announced a deal to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp. — While WhatsApp is a giant and one of the pioneers in smartphone messaging, Asia ha...
Details about Apple SSL vulnerability and iOS 7.0.6 patch
On February 21st, 2014 Apple pushed out an emergency SSL security update for iOS (7.0.6). — John Costello, CrowdStrike's Sr. SDET Engineer, and myself reverse engineered the binary patches in order ...