Russia has denied involvement in hacking the US election, but politicians and intelligence officials fear…
Watchdog Group Claims Smart Toys Are Spying On Kids
The Center for Digital Democracy has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission warning…
Yik Yak Lays Off 60 Percent of Employees As Growth Collapses
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Yik Yak has laid off 60…
Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls
Yesterday, France’s Le Monde newspaper issued a report, citing documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden,…
US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook
What may come as no surprise to Facebook users, the social media company announced in…
US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Washington Post: For the first time in more…
Solar Power Firm Patches Meters Vulnerable to Command Injection Attacks
Locus Energy has patched 100,000 of its residential and commercial power meters that were vulnerable…
Old Linux Kernel Code Execution Bug Patched
A local, race condition vulnerability in the af_packet implementation in Linux was patched this week….
New Call to Regulate IoT Security By Design
A D.C. think tank recommends regulations that mandate IoT security by design before attacks infiltrate…
OpenVPN to Undergo Cryptographic Audit
Matthew D. Green, PhD, a well-known cryptographer and researcher at Johns Hopkins University, will carry…