End-to-end encryption is everywhere – but who is protecting whom?

Spoiler alert: the secret password is [none], but you have to enter it over and over again.

Reader Trailrunner7 writes: The recent DDoS attacks by the Mirai botnet against various targets, including DNS provider Dyn, have drawn the attention of congressional leaders, who say there may be a need for regulation of IoT device security in order…

Microsoft has offered concessions to EC competition regulators in the hopes of smoothing the way for its planned acquisition of LinkedIn. From an article on TechCrunch, submitted by an anonymous reader: An EC spokesperson confirmed it has received “a commitments…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Consumerist: A new report claims that some Office Depot employees are falsely claiming computers are infected with viruses in order to meet sales goals. According to KIRO-TV in Seattle, employees of the office…

Quartz’s charts and visualization service The Atlas, has released an insightful chart that shows the “total reader interactions with articles on Facebook” between October 11, 2016 and November 10, 2016. What’s surprising is that Breitbart beat a list of establishment…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: When it comes to shutting down pirate sites, few groups have a longer history than the Motion Picture Association of America. The Hollywood organization has dozens of pirate scalps under its belt…

Samy Kamkar’s latest hacking device, PoisonTap, can steal HTTP cookies from millions of websites and install persistent web-based backdoors.

Technologists, including Bruce Schneier, testifying before a House committee today on IoT security said that regulation could be the only answer to solving existing vulnerabilities.

Mozilla addressed 29 vulnerabilities, three critical, when it released the latest iteration of its flagship browser, Firefox 50 on Tuesday.