Adobe today released an out-of-band patch for a Flash Player zero-day vulnerability being used in targeted attacks by an APT gang known for its storehouse of exploits targeting unpatched browser-based vulnerabilities.

“Any time one of these groups is using a zero day and casting such a wide net, it’s pretty significant, especially since the activity started in early June and a patch was not released until today,” Oppenheim said. “That’s a big window, and possibly tons of victims affected.”

The law behind this baffling proclamation states it is intended to protect children from coming to harm via "advertising or teleshopping." It was written in 2002, and was no less stupid in its belief that it could somehow force online retailers to take certain items off the "shelves" for two-thirds of the day. It's only receiving attention now because the Youth Protection Authority trying to hammer it into place over bits of the internet.

And no one will be saved, Youth Protection Authority or no. But the YPA gets to say it tried, and I guess that's all that matters. It will just have to live with the mocking laughter.

North Korea has created a wonder drug which not only cures Aids, but also eradicates Ebola and cancer, if the latest proclamation from the country’s news agency is to be believed*.

The dictatorship, which is known for making far-fetched claims about its achievements, says that the medicine will apparently be injectable and will be known by the name of Kumdang-2.

The dictatorship is known for making outlandish claims about its own prowess. The state claims that Kim Jong Il invented the hamburger and had magical powers which meant he did not need to use the toilet.

“We’re doing about three billion searches a year,” Weinberg said, “so we’re already pretty mainstream.”

Browsers Firefox and Safari also made DuckDuckGo available last year.

As Mr. Funicello’s vehicle illustrates — and as the attack on the Dallas Police Headquarters last weekend by a man in an armored van that was apparently bought on eBay makes clear — anyone can buy virtually anything online and drive virtually anything on the road.

Officer Tilley and other police officials said, however, that they were not aware of any violations for which an armored van such as Mr. Boulware’s might be cited. There are size and weight limits for vehicles in most states, but many armored vans and other military-style vehicles like Humvees do not exceed them.

However, there are well-known ways of providing the advantages of JavaScript without those perceived downsides: bytecode runtimes like Java and .NET. Unlike script files, the bytecode represents a low-level, fairly compact representation of a program.

WebAssembly, or wasm for short, is intended to be a portable bytecode that will be efficient for browsers to download and load, providing a more efficient target for compilers than plain JavaScript or even asm.js.

The project is funded by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), a new Californian public-benefit group backed by leading tech firms including Mozilla, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Cisco.

Website operators are generally hesitant to use SSL/TLS certificates due to their cost. An extended validation (EV) SSL certificates can cost up to $1,000 (approx. £640). It is also a complication for operators to set up encryption for larger web services.

The court had found that even if a website took down comments after people complained, it could still be held liable because it should have anticipated bad comments in the first place.

The Court then notes that freedom of expression is "interfered with" by this ruling, but it doesn't seem to care -- saying that it is deemed "necessary in a democratic society."

For a Europe that is supposedly trying to build up a bigger internet industry, this ruling is a complete disaster, considering just how much internet innovation is based on enabling and allowing free expression.

On Monday password manager service LastPass admitted it had been the target of a hack that accessed its users’ email addresses, encrypted master passwords, and the reminder words and phrases that the service asks users to create for those master passwords.

“We are confident that our encryption measures are sufficient to protect the vast majority of users,” LastPass CEO Joe Siegrist wrote in a note to customers. “Nonetheless, we are taking additional measures to ensure that your data remains secure, and users will be notified via email.”

Britain has pulled out agents from live operations in "hostile countries" after Russia and China cracked top-secret information contained in files leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the Sunday Times reported.

Russia and China have both managed to crack encrypted documents which contain details of secret intelligence techniques that could allow British and American spies to be identified, the newspaper said citing officials.