Microsoft has offered concessions to EC competition regulators in the hopes of smoothing the way for its planned acquisition of LinkedIn. From an article on TechCrunch, submitted by an anonymous reader: An EC spokesperson confirmed it has received “a commitments…
Office Depot Allegedly Diagnosing Computers With Nonexistent Viruses To Meet Sales Goals
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Consumerist: A new report claims that some Office Depot employees are falsely claiming computers are infected with viruses in order to meet sales goals. According to KIRO-TV in Seattle, employees of the office…
Facebook Users Interacted Most With Articles From Fox News, CNN and Breitbart In Month Leading Up To Nov 10
Quartz’s charts and visualization service The Atlas, has released an insightful chart that shows the “total reader interactions with articles on Facebook” between October 11, 2016 and November 10, 2016. What’s surprising is that Breitbart beat a list of establishment…
Police Raid Pirate Site, Seize 60 Servers Following MPAA Complaint
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: When it comes to shutting down pirate sites, few groups have a longer history than the Motion Picture Association of America. The Hollywood organization has dozens of pirate scalps under its belt…
PoisonTap Steals Cookies, Drops Backdoors on Password-Protected Computers
Samy Kamkar’s latest hacking device, PoisonTap, can steal HTTP cookies from millions of websites and install persistent web-based backdoors.
Regulation May Be Best Answer to IoT Insecurity
Technologists, including Bruce Schneier, testifying before a House committee today on IoT security said that regulation could be the only answer to solving existing vulnerabilities.
Mozilla Patches 29 Vulnerabilities, Prevents MIME Confusion Attacks, in Firefox 50
Mozilla addressed 29 vulnerabilities, three critical, when it released the latest iteration of its flagship browser, Firefox 50 on Tuesday.
IBM Opens Attack Simulation Test Center
IBM introduced on Wednesday a new Cyber Range attack simulator during the opening of its global security headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.
BlackNurse DDoS attack can ‘overload firewalls from a laptop’
Low-volume attack can replicate success of much larger incidents
Shanghai surprise as cheap Android devices ‘phone home’ to China
Cheap Andoid phones discovered to be sending personal data phones secretly sent texts, call logs, and PII. The firmware company says oops, our bad: we were catering to an advertising client!