The Green party candidate in the U.S. presidential election, Jill Stein, has raised over $5 million in donations to fund a recount in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which are the states key to Hillary Clinton’s loss on November 8th. She…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A low-tech but cunning malware program is worrying security researchers after it started spreading rapidly in the past week through a new attack vector: by forcibly exploiting vulnerabilities in Facebook and…

According to the Washington Post (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternate source), the “fake news” phenomenon that circulated thousands of phony stories during the election was aided by a sophisticated Russian propaganda effort that aimed to punish Democrat Hillary Clinton,…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Windows Central: Microsoft has made several adjustments to its design language over the last few years, starting with Windows 8 and evolving into what we now know as “Microsoft Design Language 2” or…

According to The New Yorker, President-elect Donald Trump’s national security advisor, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, installed a secret internet connection into his office at the Pentagon even though it was “forbidden.” Business Insider reports: The network connection was among…

Privacy campaigners raise fears about transparency and explicit consent as health service shares patient data

Tool would be offered to third parties to monitor stories that ‘bubble up’ as users share them

Names and social security numbers of more than 130,000 serving and former sailors “accessed by unknown individuals”

Here’s a plain-talking video to help you stay secure this weekend…and on into the New Year.

It might just be a video that crashes your iPhone so hard you have to do a force restart, but that’s enough of a risk to be worth noting