security FBI sinkholes a key domain used by the malware that infected 500,000 home routers, declares partial victory and Russian attribution Cory Doctorow
security 500,000 home routers have been infected with VPNFilter, malware that steals data and bricks devices Cory Doctorow
security The military sysadmins in charge of Trump's cellphones can't get him to give up wildly insecure practices Cory Doctorow
security App that let parents spy on teens stored thousands of kids' Apple ID passwords and usernames on an unsecured server Cory Doctorow
corruption A data-broker has been quietly selling realtime access to your cellphone's location, and they suck, so anyone could get it for free Cory Doctorow
security The secret, unaccountable location-tracking tool favored by dirty cops has been hacked (and it wasn’t hard) Cory Doctorow
security Efail: researchers reveal worrying, unpatched vulnerabilities in encrypted email Cory Doctorow
security Nova Scotia premier won't apologise for libeling teen who discovered massive data breach Cory Doctorow
security Nova Scotia abandons its attempt to destroy a teenager who stumbled on a wide-open directory of sensitive information Cory Doctorow
security Georgia's governor has vetoed SB 315, the state's catastrophically stupid cybersecurity law Cory Doctorow
security Equifax finally publishes a tally of what got breached when it left 146.6 million credit files unsecured Cory Doctorow
security Over 55,000 security camera DVRs are vulnerable to an exploit so simple it fits in a tweet Cory Doctorow
security Son of Spectre: researchers are about to announce eight more Meltdown-style defects in common microprocessors Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Security researchers can turn Alexa into a transcribing, always-on listening device Cory Doctorow
happy mutants In 60 seconds, security researchers can clone the master hotel-room keys for 140,000 hotels in 160 countries Cory Doctorow
security Cops shoot man, then interrupt his funeral to press his corpse's finger to his Iphone Cory Doctorow
happy mutants IoT Inspector: Princeton releases a tool to snoop on home IoT devices and figure out what they're doing Cory Doctorow
