The ‘flagrancy of the FBI’s misconduct’ in obtaining the warrant and deploying malware in a fishing expedition to catch child abusers was ‘truly staggering’, said the judge
News in brief: man jailed for hacking celebrity chef; US could add domestic flights to laptop ban; flaws found in ‘security’ cameras
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news
Verizon Expected To Cut Up To 1,000 Yahoo, AOL Jobs After Acquisition
Verizon’s acquisition and merger of AOL and Yahoo will result in many job cuts. According to Recode, up to 1,000 AOL and Yahoo jobs are expected to take place across the two companies as the merger is completed. From the…
Airbnb Announces Its Plan To House 100,000 People In Need
New submitter mirandakatz writes: Airbnb has just unveiled its Open Homes Platform, a home-sharing site for hosts motivated by goodwill instead of profits — and for guests motivated by need rather than wanderlust. Specifically, Airbnb is going to begin by…
Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016
An anonymous reader shares a report from the International Energy Agency: The number of electric cars on the roads around the world rose to 2 million in 2016, following a year of strong growth in 2015, according to the latest…
US Spy Chief Reverses Course, Will Not Say How Many Americans Caught in NSA Surveillance
Zack Whittaker, writing for ZDNet: US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats has refused to say how many Americans have been caught up in the government’s surveillance programs, reversing a confirmation pledge he made earlier this year. Coats said at…
Astronomers Prove To Einstein That Stars Can Warp Light
Astronomers have observed for the first time ever a distant star warp the light of another star, “making it seem as though the object changed its position in the sky,” reports The Verge. The discovery is especially noteworthy as Albert…
Zusy Malware Installs Via Mouseover – No Clicking Required
Zusy malware installs when victims hover over an opened PowerPoint file – no clicking needed.
Windows 10 Mitigations Make Future EternalBlue Attacks Difficult
Now that researchers have built a port of EternalBlue to Windows 10, they’ve probably only now caught up to what the NSA has had for a long while.
EFF Sues DOJ Over National Security Letter Disclosure Rules
The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the United States Department of Justice demanding to know whether the agency is complying with rules that mandate a periodic review of National Security Letter gag orders.