Dustin Volz, reporting for Reuters: Some U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees in the Washington area and Philadelphia were unable to access some agency computer networks on Tuesday, according to three sources familiar with the matter. It was not clear…

Phishing scams topped the IRS’s Dirty Dozen list of tax scams for 2017

No word on when we’ll see the movie, but the plot points keep coming.

From 1 June 2017 Google and Bing will to de-prioritise unlawful sharing sites

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Chester Wisniewski and John Shier share their thoughts from the floor of this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco.

Wired magazine did a profile on The New York Times in its this month’s issue. Talking about the paper’s transition from print to more digital-focus than ever, author Gabriel Snyder wrote, “It’s to transform the Times’ digital subscriptions into the…

Ingrid Lunden, writing for TechCrunch: After the disclosure of two massive data breaches last year, today Yahoo and Verizon finally confirmed new terms for the sale of Yahoo to Verizon: Verizon will pay $350 million less than originally planned, working…

An anonymous reader shares a report: Global digital security firm Gemalto on Tuesday announced it will make available its on-demand connectivity and eSIM technology for Microsoft’s Windows 10 devices. The eSIM is designed to be remotely provisioned by mobile network…

Bloomberg has a report today in which it underscores a growing trend among millennials in China who are looking for part-time jobs. From the article: Hopping from one short-term stint to another isn’t the sort of aspiration an earlier generation…