Breitbart.com published an article last week that erroneously claims global warming is coming to an end, claiming “global land temperatures have plummeted by 1 degree Celsius since the middle of the year — the biggest and steepest fall on record.”…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Microsoft polled 17 women working in its research organization about the technology advances they expect to see in 2017, as well as a decade later in 2027. The researchers’ predictions touch…

Backdoors, likely intentional remote administration features, were closed off in 80 different Sony IP-enabled cameras running the IPELA Engine technology.

The video sharing website DailyMotion admitted early Tuesday that it recently suffered an “external security problem” which resulted in the compromise of its users data.

An Adobe Flash Player vulnerability used by the Sofacy APT gang was also found in seven of the top exploit kits, according to an analysis by Recorded Future.

The latest fake-news wrinkle: Insiders say it will hand-pick news from favored media partners, including Snapchat, in an upcoming feature called Collections.

Your daily round-up of what else is in the news

That “short code” on the back of your credit card does make things harder for cybercrooks – but perhaps not that much harder.

Google’s invisible reCAPTCHA will decide based on tracking your moves and clicks if you’re a human or a bot

Former employee’s response to being fired is a lesson for other companies about the power of their sysadmins