Low-volume attack can replicate success of much larger incidents

Cheap Andoid phones discovered to be sending personal data phones secretly sent texts, call logs, and PII. The firmware company says oops, our bad: we were catering to an advertising client!

2016 will very likely be the hottest year on record and a new high for the third year in a row, according to the UN. It means 16 of the 17 hottest years on record will have been this century….

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The Inspire wasn’t the only DJI line to get a refresh at today’s intimate event in Los Angeles. The company’s Phantom line is also getting a bump, with the addition of the…

Apple has a reputation for releasing “revolutionary” products that carry higher price tags than competing products. Today, the company hasn’t made that reputation any better as it has released a “$299 coffee table book” that contains 450 photographs of Apple…

msm1267 quotes a report from Threatpost: A vulnerability in cryptsetup, a utility used to set up encrypted filesystems on Linux distributions, could allow an attacker to retrieve a root rescue shell on some systems. From there, an attacker could have…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Mashable: A San Diego CEO was fired after saying on Facebook that he would get a “sniper rifle” and “kill the president-elect.” Matt Harrigan, CEO of the cybersecurity firm PacketSled, posted the comments…

VMware patched a vulnerability in Workstation and Fusion that could allow an attacker to run code on a host machine.

A lobbying organization sent a letter to President-Elect Donald Trump, asking him to support the expansion of strong encryption and reform government surveillance activities.

A vulnerability in cryptsetup, a utility used to set up encrypted filesystems on Linux distributions, could allow an attacker to retrieve a root rescue shell on some systems.