Yesterday, France’s Le Monde newspaper issued a report, citing documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, that says American and British spies have since 2005 been working on intercepting phone calls and data transfers made from aircraft. Assuming the report is…

What may come as no surprise to Facebook users, the social media company announced in a blog post that the U.S. presidential election was the most “talked about” topic on Facebook in 2016. Phys.Org highlights the other most-discussed topics in…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Washington Post: For the first time in more than two decades, life expectancy for Americans declined last year (Warning: may be paywalled; alternate source) — a troubling development linked to a panoply of…

Locus Energy has patched 100,000 of its residential and commercial power meters that were vulnerable to command injection attacks and code execution.

A local, race condition vulnerability in the af_packet implementation in Linux was patched this week. The bug allows a local attacker to execute code or crash a server.

A D.C. think tank recommends regulations that mandate IoT security by design before attacks infiltrate critical infrastructure, financial and health care organizations.

Matthew D. Green, PhD, a well-known cryptographer and researcher at Johns Hopkins University, will carry out an audit of OpenVPN.

Two German researchers are calling into question the security afforded by AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization feature debuting in the chip maker’s upcoming Zen server chips.

Animal and heart charities built up pictures of donors without their knowledge to target them for cash

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