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Patches are on the way for a Bluetooth bug that could affect Apple, Intel, Broadcom, and some Android devices. A cryptographic bug in many Bluetooth firmware and operating system drivers could allow an attacker within about 30 meters to capture and decrypt data shared between Bluetooth-paired devices. The flaw was found by Lior Neumann and Eli Biham of the Israel Institute of Technology, and  flagged today  by Carnegie Mellon University CERT. The flaw, which is tracked as CVE-2018-5383, has been confirmed to affect Apple, Broadcom, Intel, and Qualcomm hardware, and some Android handsets. It affects Bluetooth's Secure Simple Pairing and Low Energy Secure Connections. Fortunately for macOS users, Apple released a  patch for the flaw in July. As the CERT notification explains, the vulnerability is caused by some vendors' Bluetooth implementations not properly validating the cryptographic key exchange when Bluetooth devices are pairing. The flaw slipped into the Blue...

A hacker has taken only 24 hours to build a botnet which is at least 18,000-devices strong. How long does it take to build a botnet? Not long, if you consider Anarchy's 18,000-device-strong creation, brought to life in only 24 hours. First spotted by researchers from NewSky Security, as reported  by Bleeping Computer , other security firms including  Rapid7  and  Qihoo 360 Netlab  quickly jumped on the case and confirmed the existence of the new threat. The security teams realized there has been a huge recent uptick in Huawei device scanning. The traffic surge was due to scans seeking devices vulnerable to  CVE-2017-17215 , a critical security flaw which can be exploited through port 37215.Scans to find routers vulnerable to the issue began on 18 July. If a Huawei router is exploited in this fashion, attackers can send malicious packets of data, launch attacks against the device, and remotely execute code -- which can be crafted in order t...

Tableau's Empirical acquisition is its latest move toward machine-augmented analytics. Here's a look at the company's 'smart' features. Tableau last month announced the acquisition of Empirical Systems, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup with an automated discovery and analysis engine designed to spot influencers, key drivers, and exceptions in data. It was Tableau's second acquisition over the last year aimed at accelerating so-called "smart" capabilities and part of a larger push that began in 2016. Despite the embrace and success of self-service over the last decade, it's increasingly clear that this approach alone is not enough to truly democratize data-driven decision-making. Self-service tools aren't always intuitive for nontechnical business users. Even more data-savvy users sometimes need help when selecting data, determining how to analyze that information, and deciding how best to visualize and share insights. To make thi...

Samsung Electronics expects a solid 14.8 trillion won operating profit for the second quarter, a rise of 5.2 percent from a year ago. But it brings a halt to its seven-quarter-straight streak of record profits. Samsung expects operating profits of 14.8 trillion won in the second quarter of this year, it has said in its earnings guidance. The results mark a rise of 5.2 percent from 14.67 trillion won a year ago. But it is a fall of 5.4 percent from the previous quarter's 15.64 trillion won, the company's highest on record. Samsung's profits had been on a record-setting seven quarter straight streak of rising profits. In sales, the firm expects 58 trillion won, a drop of 4.9 percent from last year's 61 trillion won.A decline in smartphone sales and price drops of Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) likely dented profits. But high demand for memory chips and strong sales of premium TVs thanks to the 2018 FIFA World Cup likely offset a huge decline. Analysts es...