A white hat hacker is believed responsible for the Hajime IoT botnet because its main objective appears to be to secure IoT devices vulnerable to the notorious Mirai malware.

Google asked for MLAT reform, and released its biannual Transparency Report revealing it received a record number of government requests for user data.

Last Friday’s ShadowBrokers dump, Microsoft ditching passwords, and a new car dongle hack are all discussed.

Microsoft fixed a bug in Skype last month that could have allowed an attacker to execute code on the system it was running on, phish Skype credentials and crash the application.

Facebook’s planned password recovery process might make some uncomfortable, but the good news is that it won’t involve giving the social media giant access to everything

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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