An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is suing California over a law forcing the website to remove the ages of actors on request, saying it is unconstitutional. California passed a law in…

Researchers Set To Work On Malware-Detecting CPUs
Orome1 quotes a report from Help Net Security: Adding hardware protections to software ones in order to block the ever increasing onslaught of computer malware seems like a solid idea, and a group of researchers have just been given a…

FBI Operated 23 Tor-Hidden Child Porn Sites, Deployed Malware From Them
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Federal investigators temporarily seized a Tor-hidden site known as Playpen in 2015 and operated it for 13 days before shutting it down. The agency then used a “network investigative technique” (NIT)…

OpenSSL Patches High-Severity Denial-of-Service Bug
An OpenSSL update released on Thursday patched three vulnerabilities included one rated high severity in TLS connections using the ChaCha20-Poly 1305 ciphersuite.

BlackNurse Low-Volume DoS Attack Targets Firewalls
Researchers say BlackNurse attacks are low bandwidth (18Mbps) and can still knock offline many of today’s firewalls.

Securely Disposing Mobile Devices
Do you plan on giving away or selling one of your older mobile devices? Make sure you wipe or reset your device before disposing of it. If you don’t, the next person who owns it will have access to all…

Virus-spreading smart bulbs? Researchers say it’s possible
And they used a drone to prove it!

Infect every TorMail user? That’s not what the FBI’s warrant said
The judge authorized FBI agents to infect computers that were clearly seeking, accessing, or sharing child pornography

iPhone autodial bug parties like it’s 2008
A researcher who found an autodial bug in mobile Safari more than 8 years ago has found it’s still there in another part of iOS.

Facebook is buying up stolen passwords on the black market
Does good, preventative password hygiene make it right to subsidize cyber crooks?