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Iranian hackers have been “password spraying” the US grid
In the wake of the US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and the retaliatory missile strike that followed, …
Amazon takes a swipe at PayPal’s $4 billion acquisition
Days before Christmas, at the height of the last-minute holiday shopping rush, an ominous …
Intel’s Mobileye has a plan to dominate self-driving—and it might work

Enlarge / Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua. (credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
A lot of media coverage of self-driving technology has focused on a handful of big companies with well-known brands: Google, Uber, Tesla, and GM. But there’s another company working on
US Government-funded Android phones come preinstalled with unremovable malware
An Android phone subsidized by the US government for low-income users comes preinstalled with malware that can’t be removed without making the device cease to work, researchers …
Ukraine airliner that crashed in Iran likely shot down, US officials say
Verizon’s great FiOS offer to me: Pay $50 extra for slower Internet
Verizon today claimed that it is “disrupt[ing] the cable industry” with new broadband-and-TV deals that eliminate “traditional cable bundles” and hidden fees, and the move immediately …
Paul Krugman’s no good, very bad Internet day

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This is fine.
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Even more fine.
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New York Times security team to the rescue.
Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, professor at the City University of New York, and New …
This Nissan concept is next year’s electric alternative to the Rogue SUV
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Nissan brought the Ariya electric concept to CES this year. [credit: Nissan ]
When it comes to concept cars, there are two main kinds. There’s the “half of this technology doesn’t exist yet” kind, like the Mercedes-Benz Vision AVTR we
Firefox gets patch for critical zeroday that’s being actively exploited
Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox that fixes an actively exploited zeroday that could allow attackers to take control of users’ computers.
In an advisory…