Popular video sharing service Dail Motion has been named in a data breach claim involving 80M accounts and about 20M password hashes.
Putin moves to step up Russia’s cyberdefenses
Attacks against major Russian banking sites ratcheted up fear over cyberespionage
News in brief: smart toys ‘threaten kids’ security’; Samsung battery teardown; HP turns off Telnet
Your daily round-up of what else is in the news
Nintendo targets 3DS vulnerabilities in new bug bounty
Bug bounty program focuses on hardware exploits
Flaw spotted in North Korea’s Red Star operating system
Flaw in bundled browser could give an attacker complete control over a user’s PC
Former Samsung Engineers Build Smart Umbrella That Tells If It's Going To Rain
A team of former Samsung engineers have developed a smart umbrella, dubbed Opus One, that tells its owner if it’s going to rain with the shake of the handle. International Business Times reports: Developed by a team of former Samsung…
New Stegano Exploit Kit Hides Malvertising Code In Banner Pixels
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: For the past two months, a new exploit kit has been serving malicious code hidden in the pixels of banner ads via a malvertising campaign that has been active on several high…
Apple Launches Single Sign-On Service To Make Logging Into TV Apps Less Time-Consuming
Apple has launched Single Sign-on, a service designed to make logging into TV apps much less annoying. It “allows cable subscribers to sign in once with their cable credentials to gain access to all cable-restricted content in iOS and tvOS…
Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism
Breitbart.com published an article last week that erroneously claims global warming is coming to an end, claiming “global land temperatures have plummeted by 1 degree Celsius since the middle of the year — the biggest and steepest fall on record.”…
Microsoft Researchers Offer Predictions For AI, Deep Learning
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Microsoft polled 17 women working in its research organization about the technology advances they expect to see in 2017, as well as a decade later in 2027. The researchers’ predictions touch…