How secure are university email accounts?

A little PII could be enough to give attackers the edge

Reader dryriver writes: There is no shortage of internet websites these days that peddle “information”, “knowledge”, “analysis”, “explanations” or even supposed “facts” that don’t hold up to even the most basic scrutiny — one quick trip over to Wikipedia, Snopes,…

Cory Doctorow, writing for BoingBoing (condensed):The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) publishes several excellent podcasts, and like every podcast in the world, these podcasts are available via any podcast app in the same way that all web pages can be fetched…

Lenovo received a lot of heat in September when it said the Yoga 900 and Yoga 900S hybrids would only support Windows, and not Linux. The company has now changed its stance, though there is still a catch. An anonymous…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Digital Trends: The tax debate between Apple, Ireland, and the European Union may escalate in the next few months. According to recent reports, the Irish Finance Minister, Michael Noonan, will bring the debate…

Hyperloop One has announced today that it would build the first commercial hyperloop transportation system from Dubai to Abu Dhabi — a trip that would take only twelve minutes. TechCrunch reports: The journey is 99 miles (159.4 km) long and…

Microsoft extended the end of life deadline on EMET to July 2018, but experts say its usefulness as a mitigation toolkit has been limited for some time.

Tesco Bank, a U.K. retail bank, today put a halt to online transactions from current accounts after some customers reported over the weekend money missing from their accounts.

Security experts monitoring cyber-chatter for virtual and real-world threats against U.S. Election Day targets don’t believe there will be cyberattack or al-Qaeda terror attack this Tuesday.