LastPass has been in the news again for another chink in its armour – though it has now been fixed, you’ll be glad to hear
Why ransomware continues to dominate conference agendas, despite being ‘old news’
While there are still victims of ransomware who feel they have no option but to pay up, we’ll continue to focus on it
Netflix Is Now In China Via a Deal With iQiyi
randomErr writes: Last year, Netflix tried to go into China but ran into regulatory issues. So Netflix has entered into a licensing deal with iQiyi. iQiyi was founded in 2010 by Baidu in a very similar way that Google owns…
AT&T Brings Fiber To Rich Areas While the Rest Are Stuck On DSL, Study Finds
According to a new study from UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, AT&T has been focused on deploying fiber-to-the-home in the higher-income neighborhoods of California, giving wealthy people access to gigabit internet while others are stuck…
Facebook Shows Related Articles and Fact Checkers Before You Open Links
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Facebook wants you to think about whether a headline is true and see other perspectives on the topic before you even read the article. In its next step against fake news, Facebook…
US ISP Goes Down As Two Malware Families Go To War Over Its Modems
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Bleeping Computer: Two malware families battling for turf are most likely the cause of an outage suffered by Californian ISP Sierra Tel at the beginning of the month, on April 10. The…
Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer'
pogopop77 quotes a report from Motherboard: In September 2014, Mats Jarlstrom, an electronics engineer living in Beaverton, Oregon, sent an email to the state’s engineering board. The email claimed that yellow traffic lights don’t last long enough, which “puts the…
Original XPan Ransomware Returns, Targets Brazilian SMBs
Brazilian cybercriminals are using the original version of the XPan ransomware, targeting small to medium-sized business based in Brazil with the malware.
Hard Target: Fileless Malware
Researchers say fileless in-memory malware attacks have become a major nuisance to businesses and have become even harder to detect and defend.
Hyundai Patches Leaky Blue Link Mobile App
Hyundai Motor America patched its Blue Link mobile app after researchers found a cleartext encryption key that could be use to expose user and vehicle information.