Jonathan Coleman’s research group at Trinity College Dublin discovered that Silly Putty “becomes an incredibly sensitive strain detector that can track blood pressure, heart rate, and even a spider’s footsteps” when mixed with graphene. Popular Science reports: That graduate student,…

Finnish security researcher Jouko Pynnonen found a second stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Yahoo Mail in less than a year, both of which earned him $10,000 bug bounties.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest Linux bug, Sony closing backdoors in cameras, and Google’s new open source fuzzer.

A team of New York University students architected a permissioned blockchain system called Votebook that could be applied to secure electronic voting. Their solution was the winning entry of the Cybersecurity Case Study Competition sponsored by Kaspersky Lab and The…

Ransomware still under development called Popcorn Time forces victims to either pay the ransom, or try to infect other machines in exchange for the decryption key.

Sony closes backdoors in IPELA security cameras – but why were they open in the first place?

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

Scrambling your files isn’t enough for Goldeneye – once it’s ransomed your data it scrambles Windows as well so you have to pay to reboot.

Russia has denied involvement in hacking the US election, but politicians and intelligence officials fear it played a big part

The Center for Digital Democracy has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission warning of security and privacy holes associated with a pair of smart toys designed for children. Mashable reports: “This complaint concerns toys that spy,” reads the…