BOSTON (Reuters) – Apple Inc has plugged a hole in the software that runs iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch music players that could allow hackers to take remote control of those devices. The security flaw came to light nine days ago as the website www.jailbreakme.com released code that Apple customers…
Officials at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and engineers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant knew for years about a critical design flaw in the plant’s older reactors, but declined to do anything about it, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. An electric switching station the…
Following one of the most costly and wide-reaching thefts of data in history, Sony’s re-launch of the popular PlayStation Network (PSN) stalled yesterday when their password-reset system was revealed to have a fatal flaw that allowed hackers to steal user accounts. The hack worked by gaming the unique string of…