Google announced in a blog post today that it will be rolling out a feature…
Radiation From Fukushima Disaster Reaches Oregon Coast
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New York Post: Radiation from Japan’s 2011 Fukushima…
Silly Putty Makes For Super-Sensitive Sensors
Jonathan Coleman’s research group at Trinity College Dublin discovered that Silly Putty “becomes an incredibly…
Yahoo Mail XSS Bug Worth Another $10K to Researcher
Finnish security researcher Jouko Pynnonen found a second stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Yahoo Mail…
Threatpost News Wrap, December 8, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest Linux…
NYU Students Apply Blockchain Solution to Electronic Voting Security
A team of New York University students architected a permissioned blockchain system called Votebook that…
Ransomware Gives Free Decryption Keys to Victims Who Infect Others
Ransomware still under development called Popcorn Time forces victims to either pay the ransom, or…
If you’ve got a Sony IP camera, update its firmware now
Sony closes backdoors in IPELA security cameras – but why were they open in the…
News in brief: fake news move; ‘massive’ data breach; spook welcomes Snooper’s charter
Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news
Goldeneye ransomware: the resumé that scrambles your computer twice
Scrambling your files isn’t enough for Goldeneye – once it’s ransomed your data it scrambles…