gollum123 shares a report by Sean Illing via Vox: “Google is a digital truth serum,” Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Everybody Lies , told me in a recent interview. “People tell Google things that they don’t tell to possibly anybody else,…

Multi-Million Dollar Upgrade Planned To Secure 'Failsafe' Arctic Seed Vault
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Global Seed Vault, built in the Arctic as an impregnable deep freeze for the world’s most precious food seeds, is to undergo a multi-million dollar upgrade after water from melting…

Roomba Inventor Launches 'Tertill', a Weed-Killing Robot For Your Garden
mcpublic writes: iRobot veteran and Roomba co-inventor, Joe Jones is a modest man with a big mission: to create robots that make agriculture more efficient, less tedious, and yes, maybe even one day feed the world. After a decade at…

FIN7 Hitting Restaurants with Fileless Malware
A campaign attributed to the FIN7 attackers targets restaurants with phishing emails and infected RTF Word documents that carry out fileless malware attacks.

Patrick Wardle on MacRansom Ransomware-as-a-Service
Patrick Wardle of Synack and the Objective-See blog talks to Mike Mimoso about the emergence of a ransomware service targeting MacOS machines. Wardle explains why he characterizes MacRansom as “lame” and whether this could kick off a wave of copycats…

Adobe Fixes 21 Critical Vulnerabilities with June Patch Tuesday Update
Adobe fixed 21 vulnerabilities across four products – Flash, Shockwave Player, Captivate, and Adobe Digital Editions – on Tuesday.

Risk of ‘Destructive Cyber Attacks’ Prompts Microsoft to Update XP Again
Citing an elevated risk for destructive attacks, Microsoft today included patches for vulnerabilities in Windows XP among its Patch Tuesday updates.

Microsoft Patches Two Critical Vulnerabilities Under Attack
Microsoft patched 95 vulnerabilities today, including two under attack.

When sysadmins attack: how to delete an entire company
Nothing can stand in the way of malice and incompetence

Distributor caught selling Apple customers’ data
Police have uncovered a large network of Apple distributor employees selling iPhone users’ data on the cyberunderground.