sciencehabit writes: Cats may have been domesticated twice, once in Turkey around 10,000 years ago, and again in Egypt, thousands of years later. That’s the conclusion of a new genetic analysis of more than 200 ancient cats, including DNA extracted…

The number of new malware samples in the wild this year targeting connected internet-of-things (IoT) devices has already more than doubled last year’s total.

Patches are available for a newly discovered Linux, BSD and Solaris vulnerability called Stack Clash that bypasses stack guard-page mitigations and enables root access.

Almost 200 million voter profiles culled by Republican data broker Deep Root Analytics were left exposed on an Amazon S3 server.

Dozens of Mexican journalists, lawyers, and even a child, were hit with Pegasus, commercially-produced spyware, as part of a campaign believed to be carried out by the nation’s government.

A string of data thefts targeting North American mining companies and casinos are extorting as much as $620,000 from victims.

From the US’s North Korean cyberattack patch warning and Hollywood fighting piracy to the Google Play adware that just won’t die, and more!

Thinking of shopping in one of Amazon’s new physical stores? Think twice about using their free Wi-Fi to do a price comparison while you’re there as a patent suggests they’ll be snooping on your browsing

With access to a huge database of eager would-be participants, 23andMe is hoping to learn more about the genetics of pain. But just how useful will this data be – and what are the potential problems with this kind of…

A wave of terrorist attacks has led to the UK government calling ever more noisily for ways to access the content of terrorists’ messages – but new rules from Brussels make that demand much more difficult