Schneider Electric held up its hands to the revelation that it was hardcoding passwords into its equipment, but the problem goes beyond one vendor
Payday loan company Wonga breached – what you need to know
Nothing was stolen that was deeply secret on its own, but collected together, the data points could be gold dust for scammers.
BrickerBot malware zeroes in on Linux-based IoT devices
BrickerBot is a reminder that the frequency and complexity of Linux malware is on the rise
Mounties admit to using cellphone-snooping ‘stingrays’
But other spying devices placed at Montreal’s Trudeau airport and near Parliament in Ottawa nothing to do with government, says minister
Shadow Brokers return with a password and message for Trump
Tools offered by the group ‘apparently date back to the 1990s’
News in brief: Dallas sirens ‘hacked’; Livejournal cracks down; Russian man arrested in Spain
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Thousands of Fake Google Maps Listings Redirect Users To Fraudulent Sites
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Tens of thousands of fake listings are added to Google Maps each month, redirecting users to fraudulent websites selling phony or overpriced services, or are part of some referral scam. Researchers say…
'Drawable' Electronic Circuit Technology Creates Radical Possibilities For Flexible Gadgets
drunkdrone quotes a report from International Business Times: Who said pen and paper was dead? German scientists have developed a new type of ink that allows fully-functioning electronic circuits to be “written” directly onto a surface from a pen. The…
Microsoft Acquires Container Platform Deis From Engine Yard
According to an announcement made earlier today, Microsoft has acquired Deis, “the company behind some of the most popular tools for building and managing applications on top of the Google-incubated Kubernetes container orchestration service,” writes Frederic Lardinois via TechCrunch. From…
Americans Support Letting Cities Build Their Own Broadband Networks, Pew Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Most Americans want to let local governments build out internet service if the internet providers in their area aren’t any good, according to the Pew Research Center. In a phone survey…