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Another serious hurricane is headed for the US, bringing with it the potential to cause "massive damage" to parts of the southeastern and mid-Atlantic United States. Technology can keep your informed, and helping to keep you and your family safe.

Star Trek: Discovery showrunner Alex Kurtzman will oversee the potential new space series.

Enlarge (credit: Marcus Brinkmann ) For their entire existence, some of the world's most widely used email encryption tools have been vulnerable to hacks that allowed attackers to spoof the digital signature of just about any person with a public key, a researcher said Wednesday. GnuPG, Enigmail, GPGTools, and python-gnupg have all been updated to patch the critical vulnerability. Enigmail and the Simple Password Store have also received patches for two related spoofing bugs. Digital signatures are used to prove the source of an encrypted message, data backup, or software update. Typically, the source must use a private encryption key to cause an application to show that a message or file is signed. But a series of vulnerabilities dubbed SigSpoof makes it possible in certain cases for attackers to fake signatures with nothing more than someone’s public key or key ID, both of which are often published online. The spoofed email shown at the top of this post can't be detected as malicious without doing forensic analysis that's beyond the ability of many users. Backups and software updates affected, too The flaw, indexed as CVE-2018-12020, means that decades' worth of email messages many people relied on for sensitive business or security matters may have in fact been spoofs. It also has the potential to affect uses that went well beyond encrypted email. Read 8 remaining paragraphs | Comments

E3 2018 has the potential to be a good one. Here's what we're most looking forward to.

Researchers say the new Vega Stealer malware is currently being used in a simple campaign but has the potential to go much further.

Axon (formerly Taser) is keenly aware of the potential for Orwellian abuses of facial recognition, and it's taking an unusual step to avoid creating that drama with its body cameras and other image recognition systems. The police- and military-focus...

Digital cash from PayPal, Mastercard and cryptocurrency startups have the potential to break the cycle of poverty.

Digital cash has the potential to help us save more, manage our money and even break the cycle of poverty for the world's poor. It's not without risks.

The hotly hyped technology, which has the potential to rewrite the rules of commerce, could become part of Google's cloud computing service, Bloomberg reports.

Facebook is in the middle of a public relations nightmare, caused by reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica used its site to harvest data from 50 million user profiles. But, that's not stopping the company from talking up the potential of its...

If you've ever worked on shared documents, you know the potential for confusion: a coworker may harangue you over an old file without realizing that you made changes hours ago. That shouldn't be a problem with Google's G Suite in the future. Google...

CES and notable OEM departures are among the reasons for the potential shift.

National Cyber Security Centre chief says an attack with the potential to hit infrastructure could come within the next two years.

With all the attention focused on the FCC's upcoming vote to dismantle net neutrality protections, it's easy to have missed an upcoming hearing that has the potential to reshape electronic-privacy protection. Today, the Supreme Court is hearing argum...

While the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigates the potential merger with Fox, Sky has warned that it may be forced to close down Sky News if it obstructs the approval of the deal. In a submission to the CMA last month, which was...