WannaCry is just the latest attack where everyone wants to know who’s behind the outbreak – but how much do we really know about the cybercrooks? And how can we be sure?
Crooks hold nude plastic surgery pictures to ransom after break-in
Patients, including some celebrities, of a plastic surgery clinic, have found themselves on the receiving end of ransom demands
Hackers shelve crowdfunding drive for Shadow Brokers exploits
‘Legal reasons’ cited for decision to drop the plan to crowdfund a security community subscription to a promised monthly dump of exploits
News in brief: AI detects pain in animals; parallel universe discovered; Silk Road creator loses appeal
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Qualcomm, Microsoft Announce Snapdragon 835 PCs With Gigabit LTE
Microsoft and Qualcomm have announced that Windows 10 is coming to devices made by Asus, HP and Lenovo that will run on the Snapdragon 835 platform. “The Snapdragon 835 chip, incorporating Qualcomm’s latest X16 LTE modem, forms the basis of…
Amazon Is Refunding Up To $70 Million In-App Purchases Made By Kids
The Federal Trade Commission announced that refunds are now available for parents whose children made in-app purchases without their knowledge. Amazon dropped its appeal of last year’s ruling by a federal judge who sided with the Federal Trade Commission in…
EFF Sues FBI For Records About Paid Best Buy Geek Squad Informants
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing the FBI for records “about the extent to which it directs and trains Best Buy employees to conduct warrantless searches of people’s devices.” The lawsuit stems around an incident in 2011 where a gynecology…
Technology Is Making the World More Unequal; Only Technology Can Fix This
mspohr shares an excerpt from an article written by Cory Doctorow via The Guardian: The inequality of badly-run or corrupt states is boosted by the power of technology — but it’s also easier than ever to destabilize these states, thanks…
Oregon Man Fined For Writing 'I Am An Engineer' Temporarily Wins Right To Call Himself An 'Engineer'
Mats Jarlstrom, an electrical engineer fined by the Oregon engineering board for calling himself an “engineer” and talking about traffic lights, has been granted the temporary right by a judge to both publicly call himself an “engineer” and talk about…
Privacy Issue Fixed in Yopify Ecommerce Notification Plugin
Ecommerce sites using the Yopify plugin were leaking customers’ names, locations and purchases.