Confide, an app used by some Washington insiders, denies claims in lawsuit that it doesn’t prevent screenshots on all platforms
News in brief: Russia accused of email hack; test flight for ‘flying taxi’; hacking ‘moral crusade’ for teens
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Apple threatened to oust Uber from App Store for ‘fingerprinting’ iPhones
Questions remain over if and how Uber still tracks devices after chief exec Kalanick was summoned to Apple for a roasting
Trump’s promise on cybersecurity: what’s been happening?
Work behind the scenes suggests that an executive order on cybersecurity could be signed by the end of the week
Russian ‘pioneer’ of identity theft and card fraud jailed for 27 years
Roman Seleznev, the son of a Russian MP, has received the longest ever sentence for hacking to be handed down in the US
NSA's DoublePulsar Kernel Exploit a 'Bloodbath'
msm1267 quotes a report from Threatpost: A little more than two weeks after the latest ShadowBrokers leak of NSA hacking tools, experts are certain that the DoublePulsar post-exploitation Windows kernel attack will have similar staying power to the Conficker bug,…
Slashdot Asks: Which Wireless Carrier Do You Prefer?
Earlier this year, telecommunications giants like T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon and Sprint were battling to see who could release the best unlimited data plan(s). T-Mobile started the domino chain reaction with the launch of its “One” unlimited plan in August. But…
Square Said To Acquire Team From Struggling Social App Yik Yak
According to Bloomberg, Square has acquired the engineering team of Yik Yak for “less than $3 million.” From the report: The payments processor paid less than $3 million for between five and ten of Yik Yak’s engineers, according to the…
Uber Gets Sued Over Alleged 'Hell' Program To Track Lyft Drivers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Uber has another lawsuit on its hands. This time, it’s about Uber’s alleged use of a program called “Hell.” The plaintiff, Michael Gonzales, drove for Lyft during the time Uber allegedly used…
A Caterpillar May Lead To a 'Plastic Pollution' Solution
New submitter FatdogHaiku quotes a report from BBC: Researchers at Cambridge University have discovered that the larvae of the moth, which eats wax in bee hives, can also degrade plastic. Experiments show the insect can break down the chemical bonds…