“As companies tighten their purse strings, they’re spreading out their hires — this year, and for years to come,” reports Backchannel, citing interviews with executives and other workplace analysts. mirandakatz writes: Once a cost-cutting strategy, remote offices are becoming the…
SQL Injection Attack is Tied to Election Commission Breach
A hacker offered to sell an unpatched system vulnerability in the U.S. Election Assistance Commission website on the Dark Web for “thousands” of dollars.
News in brief: Yahoo woes mount; Evernote backs down; ATM fraudster jailed
Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news
Third ‘JPMorgan hacker’ arrested as he arrived at JFK
Trio ‘used stolen data to scoop hundreds of millions of dollars’
YouTube Bans North Korea's State-Owned TV Channel
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Asian Correspondent: YouTube has blocked North Korea’s state television channel, purportedly to avoid breaching U.S. sanctions against the totalitarian state. The Korean Central Television’s page, which broadcasts breaking news videos including Pyongyang’s nuclear…
Google Joins the Open Source Cloud Foundry Foundation
BrianFagioli quotes a report from BetaNews: Today, Google announces that it has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a gold member. This is yet another example of the search giant’s open source focus. Google joins some other respected companies at…
Dropbox Kills Public Folders, Users Rebel
New submitter rkagerer writes: Dropbox unleashed a tidal wave of user backlash yesterday when it announced plans to eradicate its Public folder feature in 2017. Criticism from users whose links will break surfaced on Reddit, HackerNews and its own forums….
Rogue Lawyers Made $6 Million Shaking Down Porn Pirates, Feds Say
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The copyright violation notice is every pirate’s worst nightmare, a clear legal sign that a major copyright holder knows what you’ve been torrenting and is ready to make you pay for…
Researchers Find Roads Shatter the Earth's Surface Into 600,000 Fragments
An international team of conservation scientists have released a new global map of roadless areas that shows that the Earth’s surface is shattered by roads into more than 600,000 fragments. While roads allow humans to travel to nearly every region…
Threatpost News Wrap, December 16, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including Yahoo’s latest breach announcement, a DDoS-for-hire crackdown, hackers seeking help with Mirai, and some new Adobe patches.