After 40 critical vulnerabilities on Samsung's Tizen -- used in smart TVs and smartwatches -- were exposed this week by Israeli researcher Amihai Neiderman, the company is scrambling to patch them.
Agam Shah |
08 Apr |
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The chip maker has divested its majority holdings in McAfee to investment firm TPG for US$3.1 billion. McAfee will now again become a standalone security company, but Intel will retain a minority 49 percent stake.
Agam Shah |
04 Apr |
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The hardware and software to make iris scanning a key feature is now in place for smartphones and PCs.
Agam Shah |
03 Aug |
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Microsoft will start enforcing a change in minimum hardware requirement for Windows 10 PCs and mobile devices, and expects hardware makers to comply.
Agam Shah |
28 Jul |
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The burden of Microsoft's efforts to secure Windows 10 is now falling on PC, tablet and smartphone makers.
Agam Shah |
14 Apr |
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Dell's business laptops and tablets will get an extra layer of protection from hackers with a new security tool being loaded into the company's portable computers.
Agam Shah |
05 Feb |
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HP will start integrating privacy filters in laptop and tablet screens this year.
Agam Shah |
04 Jan |
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Lenovo admitted to pre-loading the Superfish adware on some consumer PCs, and unhappy customers are now dragging the company to court on the matter.
Agam Shah |
23 Feb |
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Paranoid tablet users, rejoice. The first units of the secure Blackphone tablet will be demonstrated at the upcoming Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona early next month.
Agam Shah |
19 Feb |
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Light bulbs equipped with Wi-Fi could soon lower your electric bills and do even more -- like scaring away burglars.
Agam Shah |
06 Jan |
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Swiping credit cards or using payment systems like Apple Pay at stores could become much safer thanks to a new Intel system, which could also make it easier for retailers to secure data after transactions are completed.
Agam Shah |
16 Oct |
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Heartbleed may have been a software bug, but it highlighted glaring weaknesses in existing hardware architectures, which remain vulnerable to memory-bound attacks, a university researcher said this week.
Agam Shah |
16 Aug |
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Chipmakers want to make hardware the first layer of defense against data breaches and other attacks on tablets and smartphones.
Agam Shah |
11 Aug |
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The crowdfunding website, Kickstarter, has been hacked and that user names, encrypted passwords and other data had been accessed.
Agam Shah |
16 Feb |
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A member of the hacker group Anonymous was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for hacking into the computers of a geopolitical analysis firm.
Agam Shah |
15 Nov |
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