Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including this week’s House hearing on the Internet of Things, Samy Kamkar’s PoisonTap tool, and Windows 10’s ransomware protections.

Qualcomm and HackerOne are partnering for a bug bounty program that pays out up to $15,000 for vulnerabilities found in chipsets used in smartphones made by Samsung, LG and HTC.

Drupal fixed a handful of issues in version 7 and 8 of the content management system core engine that could have led to cache poisoning, social engineering attacks, and a denial of service condition.

Move to NoSQL database allows bank to mull offering balance and transaction history via social media

PoisonTap is toxic even to the password-protected laptop – make sure it doesn’t happen to you

We’ve had a steady stream of questions about “BlackNurse”, so we thought we’d answer them all in one place. Here you are.

This bypass affects iOS versions 8 through 10.2 beta, and ignores both the passcode and TouchID

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Shareholders for SolarCity and Tesla voted Thursday to approve merging the two companies. “Tesla’s shareholders have overwhelmingly approved our acquisition of SolarCity,” said a statement from Tesla sent to CNBC. “Excluding the…

According to a report from Bloomberg, AOL is firing as many as 500 employees as part of a restructuring plan to focus on mobile, video and data. The move comes a year after Verizon acquired the company for $4.4 billion….

Krystalo quotes a report from VentureBeat: Mozilla today launched a new browser for iOS. In addition to Firefox, the company now also offers Firefox Focus, a browser dedicated to user privacy that by default blocks many web trackers, including analytics,…