Last week, President-elect Donald Trump appointed two new advisers to his transition team that will…
Firefox Zero-Day Can Be Used To Unmask Tor Browser Users
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Computerworld: A Firefox zero-day being used in the…
Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules
Twitter has made a serious effort as of late to limit hate speech on its…
British Film Institute To Digitize 100,000 Old TV Shows Before They Disappear
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BBC: Thousands of British TV programs are to…
New Cerber Variant Leverages Tor2Web Proxies, Google Redirects
Researchers have discovered that criminals behind the latest Cerber ransomware variant are leveraging Google redirects…
Tor Patched Against Zero Day Under Attack
The Tor Project has provided a browser update that patches a zero-day vulnerability being exploited…
Microsoft Silently Fixes Kernel Bug That Led to Chrome Sandbox Bypass
Microsoft appears to have silently fixed a two-year-old bug in in Windows Kernel Object Manager…
Deutsche Telekom outage: Mirai botnet goes double-rogue
Silver lining! Close to 1 in 20 Deutsche Telekom customers avoided botnet infection because their…
Dismay as ‘snooper’s charter’ finally becomes law
Critics fear a surveillance state while tech firms question new law’s unintended effects
News in brief: Muni hacker is hacked; Facebook warned over data sharing; spy agency releases data tool
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