An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: In bitcoin-related investigations, authorities will often follow the digital trail of an illegal transaction or suspicious user back to a specific account at a bitcoin trading company. From here, investigators will likely…

Last month, Apple unveiled new MacBook Pros, featuring an OLED Touch Bar, Touch ID, and all-new form factor that shaves off roughly 3mm in thickness. There are three base versions of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Intel Core i5 processors…

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including this week’s House hearing on the Internet of Things, Samy Kamkar’s PoisonTap tool, and Windows 10’s ransomware protections.

Qualcomm and HackerOne are partnering for a bug bounty program that pays out up to $15,000 for vulnerabilities found in chipsets used in smartphones made by Samsung, LG and HTC.

Drupal fixed a handful of issues in version 7 and 8 of the content management system core engine that could have led to cache poisoning, social engineering attacks, and a denial of service condition.

Move to NoSQL database allows bank to mull offering balance and transaction history via social media

PoisonTap is toxic even to the password-protected laptop – make sure it doesn’t happen to you

We’ve had a steady stream of questions about “BlackNurse”, so we thought we’d answer them all in one place. Here you are.

This bypass affects iOS versions 8 through 10.2 beta, and ignores both the passcode and TouchID

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Shareholders for SolarCity and Tesla voted Thursday to approve merging the two companies. “Tesla’s shareholders have overwhelmingly approved our acquisition of SolarCity,” said a statement from Tesla sent to CNBC. “Excluding the…