Written by Jeff Stone
Well, that was weird.
Category: Fity Feeds
You Should Wait Before Banning VLC from Your Computer
News broke today that the VLC Media Player—immensely popular and Lifehacker-recommended—allegedly has a pretty severe bug that could allow allow a “booby-trapped” video, as The Register put it, to either crash the player or execute remote code. The former? An annoyance. The latter? A huge security issue, one that’d we recommend uninstalling VLC to address until its creator, VideoLAN, comes out with a patch.
Healthcare startups struggle to navigate a business world that’s set up for them to fail
Justin Barad, MD is the co-founder and CEO of Osso VR, a clinically validated and award-winning surgical training platform. Dr. Barad is also an orthopaedic surgeon with a bioengineering degree from UC Berkeley, and an MD from UCLA.
Digital health startups seem to be struggling to the point of failure. Many insights into why have addressed how technology’s traditional model of quickly putting out a minimum viable product then finding useful applications and business models isn’t working. The model might work in the general technology startup space, but it rarely goes well in the complex world of healthcare. Dr. Paul Yock, a cardiologist and founder of the Byers Center for Biodesign at Stanford University, built his brainchild program on one philosophy to help healthcare startups: need-based innovation.
Teenage hackers are offered a second chance under European experiment
Written by Jeff Stone
European authorities are testing out the idea that not every cybercrime investigation has to end with a hacker in handcuffs.
Barr Says Police Need Encryption Backdoors, Doesn’t Mention Hacking Tools They Use All the Time
On Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr delivered a keynote address in which he resumed the call for companies to find technical solutions to allow law enforcement to access encrypted communications and data.
Citrix Confirms Password-Spraying Heist of Reams of Internal IP
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France seeks European surveillance to secure Gulf traffic
PARIS (AP) — France says it’s working with its European partners on an observation mission to ensure maritime security in the Persian Gulf, where tensions have climbed with Iran’s seizure last week of a U.K.-flagged oil tanker.