An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A California state senator introduced a bill…
EFF Blasts DEA in Ongoing Secret ‘Super Search Engine’ Lawsuit
EFF is dismayed by the cavalier attitude by law enforcement over warrantless searches of trillions…
New Large-Scale DDoS Attacks Follow Schedule
Researchers are tracking a new wave of DDoS attacks that rival Mirai when it comes…
Distributed Guessing Attack Reels in Payment Card Data
A research paper describes vulnerabilities enabling distributed guessing attacks which allow an attacker to collect…
Google Debuts Continuous Fuzzer for Open Source Software
A new Google program OSS-Fuzz is aimed at continuously fuzzing open source software and has…
Dirty Cow Vulnerability Patched in Android Security Bulletin
Today’s Android Security Bulletin included a patch for the Dirty Cow vulnerability, a seven-year-old Linux…
Patch and Update
One of the most effective ways you can protect your computer at home is to…
Social Media Postings
Be careful: the more information you post online about yourself, the easier it is for…
Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week
From Uber collecting location data even when not in use and the new iOS lockscreen-bypassing…
Apple set to deploy drones to boost Maps accuracy
It reportedly has FAA go-ahead to fly commercial drones. Indoor mapping is also in the…