An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: General Motors Co Chief Executive Mary Barra said on Thursday the automaker will expand testing of self-driving vehicles to Michigan, and will build its next generation of self-driving cars in the Michigan…

Apple’s AirPods finally went on sale earlier this week after being announced in September and delayed in October. Now that people are able to actually purchase these wireless earphones for $159, many are wondering what happens if they lose an…

An anonymous reader writes: Swedish hardware hacker Ulf Frisk has created a device that can extract Mac FileVault2 (Apple’s disk encryption utility) passwords from a device’s memory before macOS boots and anti-DMA protections kick in. The extracted passwords are in…

New submitter TheNinjaCoder writes: A new type of gene therapy is showing promise in reversing the aging process. The scientists are not claiming that aging can be eliminated, but say that in the foreseeable future treatments designed to slow the…

Open source and third-party software bugs haunt even the best developers’ projects, despite the industry’s best efforts to avoid them.

Results of a NTIA survey published today show that researchers prefer open communication with vendors over financial compensation when it comes to vulnerability disclosure.

Microsoft followed Google’s lead and said it will soon block Flash Player by default in the Edge browser.

An exploit kit called DNSChanger is attacking routers, not browsers, through a malvertising campaign.

Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news

Paying your own ransom if you’re stuck is one thing, but deliberately foisting ransom payments on others to save yourself is quite another.