Redmond is patching Windows 8 but NOT Windows 7, say security bods New tool checks differences, could lead to 0-day bonanza Microsoft has left Windows 7 exposed by only applying patches to its newest operating systems. Researchers found the gaps after they scanned 900 Windows libraries and uncovered a variety of security functions that were updated in Windows… Read More »
The Top 5 Claims That Defenders of the NSA Have to Stop Making to Remain Credible Cindy Cohn and Nadia Kayyali – EFF Over the past year, as the Snowden revelations have rolled out, the government and its apologists have developed a set of talking points about mass spying that the public has now heard over and over… Read More »
Intruders for the Plugged-In Home, Coming in Through the Internet Sometime soon, you may be able to turn your lights on with your iPhone. That, however, raises the question of what could happen if your device fell into the hands of a hacker. Home, connected home. The front door opens with a tap on aniPhone. The lights come… Read More »
Pixar Renderman software set free so you can make your own Toy Story | News Aspiring animators, listen up! Pixar’s working on a brand new version of Renderman, the in-house software they use to render (duh) all their awesome digital creations. There are a slew of improvements coming, but the big news is that there’s a version you can download… Read More »
Quantifying Privacy: A Week of Location Data May Be an “Unreasonable Search” When does the simple digital tracking of your location and movements — the GPS bleeps from most of our smartphones — start to be truly revealing? When do the data points and inferences that can be drawn from it strongly suggest, say, trips to a psychiatrist,… Read More »
So much for the Mediterranean diet — Greece & Italy have the world’s most overweight kids Most people know that the United States has a childhood obesity problem. Less well known is that according to the latest data from the OECD is that we are not actually the world leaders in experiencing this issue. It’s Greece and Italy… Read More »