An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Federal investigators temporarily seized a Tor-hidden site known as Playpen in 2015 and operated it for 13 days before shutting it down. The agency then used a “network investigative technique” (NIT)…

OpenSSL Patches High-Severity Denial-of-Service Bug
An OpenSSL update released on Thursday patched three vulnerabilities included one rated high severity in TLS connections using the ChaCha20-Poly 1305 ciphersuite.

BlackNurse Low-Volume DoS Attack Targets Firewalls
Researchers say BlackNurse attacks are low bandwidth (18Mbps) and can still knock offline many of today’s firewalls.

Securely Disposing Mobile Devices
Do you plan on giving away or selling one of your older mobile devices? Make sure you wipe or reset your device before disposing of it. If you don’t, the next person who owns it will have access to all…

Virus-spreading smart bulbs? Researchers say it’s possible
And they used a drone to prove it!

Infect every TorMail user? That’s not what the FBI’s warrant said
The judge authorized FBI agents to infect computers that were clearly seeking, accessing, or sharing child pornography

iPhone autodial bug parties like it’s 2008
A researcher who found an autodial bug in mobile Safari more than 8 years ago has found it’s still there in another part of iOS.

Facebook is buying up stolen passwords on the black market
Does good, preventative password hygiene make it right to subsidize cyber crooks?

Yahoo staff knew they were breached two years ago
Its quarterly report says that a state-sponsored actor had access to the company’s network in late 2014

Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours After Trump's Win
Hours after Donald Trump won the Presidential Election, a group of hackers that is widely believed to be Russian and was involved in the breach of the Democratic National Committee launched a wave of attacks against dozens of people working…