msm1267 quotes a report from Threatpost: A little more than two weeks after the latest ShadowBrokers leak of NSA hacking tools, experts are certain that the DoublePulsar post-exploitation Windows kernel attack will have similar staying power to the Conficker bug,…

Earlier this year, telecommunications giants like T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon and Sprint were battling to see who could release the best unlimited data plan(s). T-Mobile started the domino chain reaction with the launch of its “One” unlimited plan in August. But…

According to Bloomberg, Square has acquired the engineering team of Yik Yak for “less than $3 million.” From the report: The payments processor paid less than $3 million for between five and ten of Yik Yak’s engineers, according to the…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Uber has another lawsuit on its hands. This time, it’s about Uber’s alleged use of a program called “Hell.” The plaintiff, Michael Gonzales, drove for Lyft during the time Uber allegedly used…

New submitter FatdogHaiku quotes a report from BBC: Researchers at Cambridge University have discovered that the larvae of the moth, which eats wax in bee hives, can also degrade plastic. Experiments show the insect can break down the chemical bonds…

SquirrelMail suffers from a remote code execution vulnerability that could let attackers execute arbitrary commands on the target and compromise the remote system.

The first large scale Locky campaign in months has been detected via the Necurs botnet.

Scans show tens of thousands of Windows servers infected with the DoublePulsar kernel exploit leaked by the ShadowBrokers two weeks ago.

From Burger King’s Google Home trigger and how tech scammer have made millions to the many vulnerabilities found in Linksys routers, & more!

Spam campaign delivers Locky ransomware that, like a Russian matryoshka doll, is nested inside not one but two layers