Salem State University was horrified when its account was taken over and used to spout racist venom – how could they have prevented it? We’ve got some advice

Cloud backup for the password manager’s Authenticator certainly reduces the hassle for users – but it’s a security compromise

The Cron gang’s malware was infecting some 3,500 Android devices every day – and siphoning money out of 60 accounts every day

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

One of the new tools Google has announced for its advertisers today promises to tie your offline credit card data together with all your online viewing to tell advertisers exactly what’s working as they try to target you and your…

miller60 writes: The Open19 Foundation launched today, positioning its open hardware designs as a platform for edge computing, and an alternative to the Open Compute Project and hyperscale designs. The Open19 designs were created by the data center team at…

bricko quotes a report from Recode: The GOP’s leading campaign and fundraising arm, the Republican National Committee, has quietly thrown its support behind a proposal at the Federal Communications Commission that would pave the way for marketers to auto-dial consumers’…

Robert Hart has posed an interested question in his report on Quartz: When artificial intelligence botches your medical diagnosis, who’s to blame? Do you blame the AI, designer or organization? It’s just one of many questions popping up and starting…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: We don’t know a lot about the biological basis of our mental abilities — we can’t even consistently agree on how best to test them — but a few things seem…

Apple revealed this week that it received at least one National Security Letter from the U.S. government for user data during the last six months of 2016