End-to-end encryption is everywhere – but who is protecting whom?
Get root on Linux: learn the secret password
Spoiler alert: the secret password is [none], but you have to enter it over and…
Schneier: We Need a New Agency For IoT Security
Reader Trailrunner7 writes: The recent DDoS attacks by the Mirai botnet against various targets, including…
Microsoft Offers Concessions To EU Regulators Eyeing Its $26.2 Billion LinkedIn Bid
Microsoft has offered concessions to EC competition regulators in the hopes of smoothing the way…
Office Depot Allegedly Diagnosing Computers With Nonexistent Viruses To Meet Sales Goals
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Consumerist: A new report claims that some Office…
Facebook Users Interacted Most With Articles From Fox News, CNN and Breitbart In Month Leading Up To Nov 10
Quartz’s charts and visualization service The Atlas, has released an insightful chart that shows the…
Police Raid Pirate Site, Seize 60 Servers Following MPAA Complaint
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: When it comes to shutting down pirate…
PoisonTap Steals Cookies, Drops Backdoors on Password-Protected Computers
Samy Kamkar’s latest hacking device, PoisonTap, can steal HTTP cookies from millions of websites and…
Regulation May Be Best Answer to IoT Insecurity
Technologists, including Bruce Schneier, testifying before a House committee today on IoT security said that…
Mozilla Patches 29 Vulnerabilities, Prevents MIME Confusion Attacks, in Firefox 50
Mozilla addressed 29 vulnerabilities, three critical, when it released the latest iteration of its flagship…