News Briefs

Topics include hackers exploiting the critical Shellshock vulnerability, Hewlett-Packard splitting into two companies, support growing for a new software approach that could advance cloud computing, a new technology that utilizes users´ electrocardiograms to authenticate them to computers and applications, researchers saying that several exotic Web-tracking tools threaten user privacy, scientists developing a tiny radio that could enable the Internet of Things, security experts saying a new networking technology could make security products ineffective, a service offering a new approach to cloud security, NASA developing a system that can find buried disaster survivors, and a crowdfunding gag unexpectedly benefiting charity.