Day: December 5, 2015

Event Horizon Telescope reveals magnetic fields at Milky Way’s central black hole

Posted on by Robin Edgar

If the black hole is spinning, it can generate strong jets that blast across thousands of light-years and shape entire galaxies. These black hole engines are thought to be powered by magnetic fields. For the first time, astronomers have detected magnetic fields just outside the event horizon of the black hole at the center of Read more about Event Horizon Telescope reveals magnetic fields at Milky Way’s central black hole[…]

Top Programming Languages That Generate Software Vulnerabilities (Hint: PHP)

Posted on by Robin Edgar

PHP continues to be one of the main sources for many security bugs With a huge fanbase and used in countless of apps and websites around the Internet, PHP is ranked the worst when it came to command injection bugs, but also came close to the top when it came to SQL injections, cross-site scripting Read more about Top Programming Languages That Generate Software Vulnerabilities (Hint: PHP)[…]

Russia’s blanket phone spying busted Europe’s human rights laws

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Russia’s legal framework around the mass surveillance was found to be unfit because it did not limit the circumstances in which public authorities were allowed to conduct their surveillance activities, nor were there any limits on the duration of those activities. Additionally, there was insufficient supervision of the interception and a lack of “procedures for Read more about Russia’s blanket phone spying busted Europe’s human rights laws[…]