Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news

How to focus on family, food and fun over Christmas, rather than dealing with a credit card crisis or a ransomware attack.

Imagine tech support scammers unable to ring through and threaten to chop you up like a stew ingredient when you resist installing malware.

In a hard-hitting judgement, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled the legislation unlawful by the norms of democratic society

Our favorite Marvel heroes were no match for Twitter troublemakers OurMine

Sing this song and you could help someone, somewhere, take that one extra security precaution that saves their data over the festive season.

New submitter jbwiebe quotes a report from CBC.ca: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has declared broadband internet a basic telecommunications service. In a ruling handed down today, the national regulator ordered the country’s internet providers to begin working…

An anonymous reader writes: Last week, WordPress security firm WordFence revealed it detected over 1.65 million brute-force attacks originating from an ISP in Ukraine that generated more malicious traffic than GoDaddy, OVH, and Rostelecom, put together. A week later, after…

schwit1 quotes a report from Phys.Org: U.S. drone delivery service Flirtey on Monday announced that its self-piloting flying machines have whisked flu medicine, hot food and more from 7-Eleven convenience stores to customers’ homes. The Nevada-based company boasted of being…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: With Firefox 50, Mozilla has rolled out the first major piece of its new multi-process architecture. Edge, Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari all have a multiple process design that separates their…