• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-14-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Hacking Team’s malware uses a UEFI rootkit to survive operating system reinstalls

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on.The company developed a tool that can be used to modify […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-14-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, July 14

As partner conference kicks off, Microsoft details Win10 launch plans and moreWith Windows 10 set to roll out in just two weeks, Microsoft on Monday shed some light on the marketing support it will put behind the launch: a worldwide, […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-14-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, July 14

As partner conference kicks off, Microsoft details Win10 launch plans and moreWith Windows 10 set to roll out in just two weeks, Microsoft on Monday shed some light on the marketing support it will put behind the launch: a worldwide, […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-13-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on US to begin talks on drone privacy standards

A U.S. government agency will start its third attempt to develop voluntary privacy standards for an emerging area of technology, this time with a series of meetings on drone privacy scheduled to begin Aug. 3.The U.S. National Telecommunication and Information […]