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The DMCA and its Chilling Effects on Research
2018-04-16 11:46

The Center for Democracy and Technology has a good summary of the current state of the DMCA's chilling effects on security research. To underline the nature of chilling effects on hacking and...

The impact of cognitive hacking on business
2018-04-16 11:35

Carson Sweet, CTO of CloudPassage, explains the mechanics of bots, spam, and fake news.

Casino Gets Hacked Through Its Internet-Connected Fish Tank Thermometer
2018-04-16 10:18

Internet-connected technology, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT), is now part of daily life, with smart assistants like Siri and Alexa to cars, watches, toasters, fridges, thermostats,...

Tracking protection in Firefox for iOS now on by default – why this matters
2018-04-16 10:10

Turning it on by default might sound like a mere tweak, but its the first version of the browser to do this without the user having to consciously turn it on.

Facial recognition cameras on lamp posts to be tested in Singapore
2018-04-16 09:53

The Singapore government wants to put one on top of all 110,000 lamp posts throughout the country, to help identity all who pass by.

Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week
2018-04-16 08:57

From checking if your Facebook data was shared with Cambridge Analytica and the 65 vulnerabilities fixed in April's Patch Tuesday to Facebook's 'shadow profiles', and more!

Boffins think classical crypto can outlive quantum computers
2018-04-16 05:58

Cisco backs Isara's post-quantum PKI cert test in the hope it future-proofs TLS Cisco and quantum security outfit Isara reckon they've got at least as far as alpha stage in one a problem of the...

Severe Flaws Expose Moxa Industrial Routers to Attacks
2018-04-16 04:36

Cisco’s Talos intelligence and research group has reported identifying a total of 17 vulnerabilities in an industrial router from Moxa, including many high severity command injection and...

The cybersecurity skills gap caused 40% of IT pros to stall their cloud migrations
2018-04-16 04:01

One in four organizations have experienced data theft from the public cloud, according to McAfee.

Security bods lierate EITest malware slaves
2018-04-16 03:58

Miscreants' command and control network traffic sent down sinkhole One of the world's longest-lived malware networks, EITest, has gone offline.…