Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news

Imagine tech support scammers unable to ring through and threaten to chop you up like a stew ingredient when you resist installing malware.

In a hard-hitting judgement, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled the legislation unlawful by the norms of democratic society

Undefined and probably unworkable ‘porn block’ proposed by South Carolina Republican

But was it ethical for filmmaker to set up a device as a honeypot for a thief?

And not just your data, but also the data of government officials, lawmakers and diplomats

A trove of data belonging to Ameriprise Financial was found earlier this month and included Social Security number, decryption keys and confidential internal company documents.

Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including Yahoo’s latest breach announcement, a DDoS-for-hire crackdown, hackers seeking help with Mirai, and some new Adobe patches.

This morning I received an email from Yahoo. Five minutes later I’d closed my account.