NIST has made a public plea for submissions for new crypto algorithms that can stand up against quantum computing and protect data.

Forwarding Emails
When you forward an email to others or copy new people to an email thread, review all the content in the entire email and make sure the information contained in it is suitable for everyone. It is very easy to…

News in brief: crackdown on drones; Egypt blocks Signal; Nook 7 warning
Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news

Our 12 tips for staying safe online this Christmas
How to focus on family, food and fun over Christmas, rather than dealing with a credit card crisis or a ransomware attack.

AT&T takes aim at scam callers
Imagine tech support scammers unable to ring through and threaten to chop you up like a stew ingredient when you resist installing malware.

Government’s “general and indiscriminate” data collection ruled unlawful
In a hard-hitting judgement, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled the legislation unlawful by the norms of democratic society

Pow! Captain America and other Marvel heroes defeated by bad passwords
Our favorite Marvel heroes were no match for Twitter troublemakers OurMine

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

Canada's CRTC Declares Broadband Internet Access a Basic Service
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…

Hotbed of Cybercrime Activity Tracked Down To ISP In Ukrainian Civil War Region
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…