An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Two years ago, academic publisher Elsevier filed a complaint (PDF) against Sci-Hub and several related “pirate” sites. It accused the websites of making academic papers widely available to the public, without permission….

Fighting attackers needs a new approach that leverages a public-private data sharing framework, enabling immediate and collective responses.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including Citizen Lab’s latest report, WannaCry hitting Honda, GhostHook, and Fireball.

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) identified ransomware as one of 2016’s top threats, but a relatively small number of attacks were reported.

Siemens patched two vulnerabilities in products, SIMATIC CP and XHQ, commonly found in industrial control system setups this week

‘When you have a bunch of single guys in the office, it goes in that direction’, says Dating.AI founder as he dismisses concerns about scraping other dating apps for faces for users to match

Join us for the last webinar in our Security SOS Week – we take a look at ransomware… and all the other malware nasties that roam the net.

Homeland Security official declines to reveal more to Senate hearing as details emerge of hacking attempts in Illinois and Arizona

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

McDonald’s is expected to increase its sales via new digital ordering kiosks that will replace cashiers in 2,500 restaurants. As a result, the company’s shares hit an all-time high, rallying 26 percent this year through Monday. CNBC reports: Andrew Charles…