FBI wants to keep “helpful” Mirai botnet authors around
In December 2017, the youthful authors of the devastating Mirai botnet admitted that, collectively, they were guilty of conspiracy to …
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When spyware goes mainstream
These are terms alternately used to effectively identify a file-based threat that has been around since 1996: spyware. More than two decades later, consumer or commercial spyware has gone mainstream…
Police dog sniffs out USB drive to snare school hacker
Thanks to a trained police dog sniffing out a thumb drive hidden inside a box of tissues, a high schooler in a San Francisco Bay area …
“Misguided” hacking bill threatens to ice security researchers, say critics
The US state of Georgia is considering anti-hacking legislation that critics fear could criminalize security researchers. The bill, SB 315, …
DOJ confirms Uber is under criminal investigation
The plot of the Waymo vs Uber fight over stolen self-driving technology was already thick, what with 14,000 pages of intellectual property …
Hacked Password Service Leakbase Goes Dark
Leakbase, a Web site that indexed and sold access to billions of usernames and passwords stolen in some of the world largest data breaches, …
How DJI fumbled its bug bounty program and created a PR nightmare
A software vulnerability disclosure program recently launched by popular drone maker DJI has turned into a messy public relations battle …
Senators act to SAVE voting machines
Looks like it’s at least a possibility that DefCon won’t be the only place hackers can compete for prizes by exposing flaws in US …
Hack-back bill would legalize companies hacking their attackers
A couple of years ago, a counterterrorism expert had an idea: let’s arm US companies with cyber weaponry so they can hack-back …
Judge orders LinkedIn to stop blocking third-party use of your data
A San Francisco judge has rebuffed LinkedIn’s attempts to stop a third-party data-analytics startup from using the publicly available data of its users. According to legal experts, the case could…
Hutchins arrest stokes fears among those sharing sensitive threat intel
The arrest of security researcher Marcus Hutchins is troubling members of multiple threat information sharing groups who once counted Hutchins as an ally, but now worry that he could have…