Dustin Volz and Warren Strobel, writing for Reuters: The National Security Agency risks a brain-drain of hackers and cyber spies due to a tumultuous reorganization and worries about the acrimonious relationship between the intelligence community and President Donald Trump, according…
Twitter To Get Even Harsher On Trolls
Twitter is cracking down even harder against trolls, including temporarily barring accounts that are harassing other users. From a report: In a blog posted Wednesday, Twitter’s vice president of engineering, Ed Ho, announced more safety measures to stop abuse on…
Anthem's Historic Data Breach: What We Still Don't Know 2 Years Later
In February 2015, health insurer Anthem said its database had been compromised, exposing personal information for 78.8 million people, including 60 million to 70 million of its current and former customers and employees. Two years later, much of how it…
Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process
A number of programmers have taken it Twitter to bring it to everyone’s, but particularly recruiter’s, attention about the grueling interview process in their field that relies heavily on technical questions. David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator…
Nobody Likes Uber Anymore, Recent Reviews and Ratings On App Store Suggest
Alison Griswold, writing for Quartz: The public is not happy with Uber. Incensed by allegations of sexism and harassment in the company’s corporate halls, people are once again #deleting Uber, while one-star ratings and withering critiques of its service are…
Attackers using cracked builder to duplicate and spread Betabot
Some attackers love Betabot malware but not all of them like paying for it
Cloudbleed’s silver lining: the response system worked
There are points of contention but overall the researcher-to-vendor collaboration delivered
News in brief: D-Link vulnerabilities; SHA-1 woe; MySQL hacks
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
MWC: BlackBerry misses a chance to tell a compelling security story
BlackBerry used to be renowned for its approach to mobile security, but its newest device, the KeyOne, could have done more to emphasise it
Fears over net neutrality as FCC rules on disclosure eased
FCC move to exempt bigger ISPs from disclosure requirements sparks fears of further rollbacks to net neutrality