Researchers at security firm Trend Micro say they have found a new cryptocurrency miner that operates as fileless malware, attacking Windows systems by using the EternalBlue exploit that powered the WannaCry ransomware in May.

A security researcher claims that the AccuWeather app for iOS leaks information to a third-party site, with GPS co-ordinates and router information among the data leaked.

More than half of global transactions at PoS (Point of Sale) will be contactless within five years, a jump of 15% on this year, according to a newly published study.

Open source software provider Red Hat has announced that it will be deprecating the Btrfs filesystem and removing it in a future major release of its enterprise Linux operating system. Could an allergy to Oracle be the reason?

A little more than a month after the head of the Drupal content management system project, Dries Buytaert, made his last official statement about the sacking of Larry Garfield, a senior and well-respected member of the community, the matter still sits uncomfortably with an open-source project.

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