An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: The U.S. House of Representatives has just approved a “congressional disapproval” vote of privacy rules, which gives your ISP the right to sell your internet history to the highest bidder. The…

Officials warn of a ‘labor-intensive’ extension will create logistical and administrative hurdles

The internet depends on encryption – and Amber Rudd is unwittingly calling for a hole to be kicked in security itself

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Researchers report new connections between Magic Hound and Shamoon 2, along with descriptions of how the Disttrack malware component of campaigns moves laterally within infected networks.

“Nobody wants their data spread far and wide,” write two associate editors at MIT Technology Review, “but the FCC’s rules were an inconsistent solution to a much larger problem.” An anonymous reader writes: They point out the rules passed in…

Security experts say they are skeptical that a group called Turkish Crime Family actually possess a cache of hundreds of millions of Apple iCloud account credentials.

Personal data from protesters’ devices including photographs will be available to all the defendants’ lawyers via a cloud portal

The latest Wikileaks dump of Apple hacking tools, the LastPass vulnerabilities, and a new Android security report are discussed.

Privacy activists say rolling-back ISP privacy rules means health, financial and browsing habits can be used, shared and sold to the highest bidder without consent.