An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: It’s no surprise that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the best-selling game on the Nintendo Switch, a console that just had its strongest U.S. opening ever for…

FriendlyElec Releases $40 NanoPi K2 Board That Competes With ODROID-C2, Raspberry Pi 3
DeathByLlama writes: The single board computer market, broken wide-open just a few years ago by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, continues to flourish today as FriendELEC releases their $40 NanoPi K2 board. This SBC packs a 1.5 GHz 64-bit quad core…

Exploit Kit Activity Quiets, But Is Far From Silent
Here are the exploit kits to watch for over the next three to six months.

Stories From Two Years in an IoT Honeypot
A researcher at this year’s Security Analyst Summit staged a series of honeypots at his friends’ houses to record IoT traffic, exploit attempts and other statistics.

Threatpost News Wrap, April 14, 2017
Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook recap Infiltrate Con in Miami last week, and Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit in St. Maarten

Google Making Life Difficult for Ransomware to Thrive on Android
At the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit, Android Security Team malware analyst Elena Kovakina explained Google’s strategy for countering ransomware on Android.

ShadowBrokers Expose NSA Access to SWIFT Service Bureaus
The latest ShadowBrokers dump includes exploits that allowed the NSA to target SWIFT data managed by outsourced service bureaus in the Middle East.

Priorities clash over the call to encrypt the whole internet
What does ‘encrypting the whole internet mean’: can it be done and is it a good idea?

Smartphone sensors offer hackers a way past security PINs
But how likely are you to fall victim to this kind of attack?

Google joins the efforts to halt the spread of fake news
Tech giants’ efforts to identify dubious stories are helpful, but the onus still lies with users