An anonymous reader writes from a report via Bleeping Computer: Two malware families battling for turf are most likely the cause of an outage suffered by Californian ISP Sierra Tel at the beginning of the month, on April 10. The…

Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer'
pogopop77 quotes a report from Motherboard: In September 2014, Mats Jarlstrom, an electronics engineer living in Beaverton, Oregon, sent an email to the state’s engineering board. The email claimed that yellow traffic lights don’t last long enough, which “puts the…

Original XPan Ransomware Returns, Targets Brazilian SMBs
Brazilian cybercriminals are using the original version of the XPan ransomware, targeting small to medium-sized business based in Brazil with the malware.

Hard Target: Fileless Malware
Researchers say fileless in-memory malware attacks have become a major nuisance to businesses and have become even harder to detect and defend.

Hyundai Patches Leaky Blue Link Mobile App
Hyundai Motor America patched its Blue Link mobile app after researchers found a cleartext encryption key that could be use to expose user and vehicle information.

Zimperium Acquisition Program Publishes Exploits for Patched Android Bugs
Exploits for patched Android elevation of privilege vulnerabilities were published through the Zimperium N-Days Exploit Acquisition Program.

ColdFusion Hotfix Resolves XSS, Java Deserialization Bugs
Adobe released an important security hotfix for several versions of Coldfusion, resolving two bugs, Tuesday morning.

xDedic Market Spilling Over With School Servers, PCs
Nearly two-thirds of servers and PCs peddled on the xDedic underground marketplace belong to schools and universities based in United States.

Atlassian Resets HipChat Passwords Following Breach
Atlassian reset user passwords for its group chat service HipChat on Monday following an incident that may have resulted in unauthorized access to a server used by the service.

LinkedIn app’s oversharing via Bluetooth sparks alarm
LinkedIn said it was working on a fix for the issue – but it’s always a good idea to keep an eye on what you might be sharing via Bluetooth