Researchers have found a new application of 3D printing that produces lithium-ion batteries the size of a grain of sand. The batteries could some day enable the development of miniaturized medical implants, compact electronics or tiny bots. ...
Tags: 3d Printer, Lithium-Ion Batteries
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Ruby on Rails Web application development framework in order to compromise Web servers and create a botnet. The Ruby on Rails development team released a security patch for ...
Tags: Ruby on Rails, Hacker, Botnet
Yoking cognitive computing with customer service, IBM has launched a system that can reference large amounts of unstructured data to help companies better field customer phone calls. The IBM Watson Engagement Advisor uses IBM's Watson, ...
Tags: Computer Products, IBM, Smart Bot
Security researchers from Damballa have found a new variant of the Pushdo malware that's better at hiding its malicious network traffic and is more resilient to coordinated takedown efforts. The Pushdo Trojan program dates back to early ...
Tags: Pushdo Botnet, Takedown Attempts
US President Barack Obama has finally signed a much-anticipated executive order to protect key elements of the country's critical infrastructure against cyberattacks. Covering power plants, water utilities and other high-profile targets, ...
Tags: cyberattacks, infrastructure, Barack Obama
Toy Fair is always magical, but technology is adding even more magic to the mix, especially when it's implemented to make toys smarter and more fun. This year we saw some excellent examples of tech-toy coolness to come, from giants like ...
Tags: Toy Fair, smart toys, tech-toy
The scary stories from the Web are getting worse.First there were a few stolen credit card numbers.Then there were a few thousand.Now we hear about millions of financial records being exposed by security breaches,and we grow numb to the ...
Tags: Code Safeguard, Developers, Internet
It’s Friday morning and another ProMat is behind us. My legs are shot. My back hurts. My spirits are pretty high. That’s because I think it was a successful show. The best of the industry was on display. You expect that at ...
Tags: ProMat, 2013, George Prest, CEO, MHI
Frank Bruno Academy AASE student and Fisher ABC boxer Ted Cheeseman took on the new Tomy Battroborg robots at Toy Fair this week. The three-time amateur national champion - ranked sixth in the world - staged his first robotic boxing ...
The performance of robots that take on such mundane chores as vacuuming the floor, mowing the lawn or cleaning the gutters has too often been disappointing. But the dream lives on in the new Winbot 7 window-cleaning robot from Ecovacs ...
Tags: robot, Winbot 7, window-cleaning robot, Ecovacs Robotics, CES
Facebook said Monday it has defenses in place to detect click fraud despite one company's claim it detected suspicious clicks on its advertisements billed to it by the social-networking site. Limited Run, a company based in Manorville, ...
Tags: Facebook, click fraud, claim, advertisements
Microsoft on Tuesday rebooted Hotmail as Outlook.com, serving notice that the former is headed toward retirement and that the latter is the new face of the company's 15-year-old online email effort. Analysts might have shrugged at the ...
Tags: Microsoft, Hotmail, Outlook, online email
Facebook shares have hit a new low of $19.82 before closing at $20.04 after the social network reported slowing growth and admitted more than 83 million accounts may be fake. The shares have lost nearly half their value since May, when ...
Tags: social network, Facebook, Share Price, Security and Exchange Commission
IDG News Service - Cybercriminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels potentially malicious traffic through them, according to security researchers from Symantec. ...
Tags: Cybercriminals, computer, malware, commercial proxy service
A new security project is monitoring in real time the price of stolen credit-card data sold in underground forums, which may eventually reveal emerging cybercrime trends. The company behind it, CloudeyeZ, is publishing the data it ...
Tags: security project, stolen credit card, cybercrime, underground forums