An email scam tricked Yandex email recipients into thinking phishing emails were certified legit and from the Microsoft.com domain.

Attackers could exploit over-the-air updates in three million Android devices to remotely execute commands with root privileges via a man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attack.

One of the most effective methods you can use to protect kids online is to talk to them. The younger you start talking to them, and they to you, the better. Hold regular conversations about online safety issues, even going…

From fears about fake news on Facebook to how BlackNurse can overwhelm firewalls from a single laptop

“A number of popular Twitter accounts suddenly wanted to help you add more followers,” joked Engadget. An anonymous reader writes: Early Saturday morning, due to a breach of the Twitter Counter analytics service, the compromised Twitter accounts started posting images…

The EFF is describing it as “a break for your brain.” An anonymous reader writes: Humble Bundle has announced a special “pay what you want” sale for four ebooks about LEGO from No Starch Press, with proceeds going to the…

Streetlight writes: Google is moving towards a physical presence in Best Buy stores…mimicking what Samsung has done. Hopefully the “stores” are staffed with competent professionals that know what they’re selling and maybe provide some help to those who have purchased…

“There are about 21 million acres of trees spread across California’s 18 national forests, and the latest figures show 7.7 million of them — more than one-third — are dead.” An anonymous reader quotes the San Francisco Chronicle: California’s lingering…

To protect our home networks from IoT cracking, Ceaus wants to see a smart firewall: It’s a small box (the size of a Raspberry Pi) with two ethernet ports you put in front of your ISP router. This firewall is…

The Stack reports on Google’s “new research into upscaling low-resolution images using machine learning to ‘fill in’ the missing details,” arguing this is “a questionable stance…continuing to propagate the idea that images contain some kind of abstract ‘DNA’, and that…