The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a robotic arm for amputees that can perform multiple simultaneous movements, a huge advance over the metal hook currently in use. The FDA said on Friday it had allowed the sale of the DEKA Arm System after ...
U.S., U.K. advise against use of Internet Explorer until bug is fixed
The U.S. and U.K. governments on Monday advised computer users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser until the company fixes a security flaw that hackers used to launch attacks. The Internet Explorer bug, disclosed over the weekend, is the first high-profile ...
New Mexico dig uncovers 'E.T.' video games buried after 1980s flop
Documentary filmmakers digging in a New Mexico landfill on Saturday unearthed hundreds of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" cartridges. The game was considered by some to be the worst video game ever made; it was blamed for contributing to the downfall of the video game industry ...
Interconnectivity exposes global shipping fleet to hacking threat
The next hacker playground: the open seas — and the oil tankers and container vessels that ship 90 percent of the goods moved around the planet. In this Internet age, as more devices are hooked up online, so they become more vulnerable to attack. As ...
The world's biggest technology companies are donating millions of dollars to fund improvements in open source programs like OpenSSL, the software whose "Heartbleed" bug has sent the computer industry into turmoil. Amazon, Cisco Systems, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel and Microsoft are among a dozen companies ...
U.S. regulators are expected to vote on May 15 on a new set of "net neutrality" rules aimed at making certain that broadband providers do not slow down or block consumers' access to legal Internet content. The rules from the Federal Communications Commission, which released ...
White House, spy agencies deny NSA exploited 'Heartbleed' bug
The White House and U.S. intelligence agencies said on Friday that neither the National Security Agency nor any other part of the government was aware before this month of the "Heartbleed" bug, denying a report that the spy agency exploited the glitch in widely ...
'Heartbleed' computer bug threat spreads to firewalls and beyond
Hackers could crack email systems, security firewalls and possibly mobile phones through the "Heartbleed" computer bug, according to security experts who warned on Thursday that the risks extended beyond just Internet servers. The widespread bug surfaced late on Monday, when it was disclosed that a ...
'Heartbleed' bug undoes Web encryption, exposes private data
A newly discovered bug in widely used Web encryption technology has made data on many of the world's major websites vulnerable to theft by hackers in what experts say is one of the most serious security flaws uncovered in recent years. The finding of the ...
NSA infiltrated Internet security firm more deeply than thought: study
Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency's ability to eavesdrop on some Internet communications, according to a team of academic researchers. Reuters reported in December that the NSA ...
