A Scottish citizen was indicted on Thursday by a federal grand jury in San Francisco for allegedly using Twitter to spread disinformation, causing the stock prices of two companies to plummet. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said that James Alan Craig, 62, of Dunragit, Scotland, allegedly set up Twitter accounts using names similar to real...

Mobile apps are regularly leaking information to third parties, according to research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, and Carnegie-Mellon. The researchers tested 110 popular, free apps – half of them Android and half iOS – to find out which ones share personal, behavioral, and location data with third-party websites. Make that very...

The unflappable and suave James Bond is known for impeccable taste in clothes, cars and cocktails. The Bond brand has been attractive to luxury goods companies including car makers Aston Martin and Jaguar, which produced special editions for the latest film in the franchise, “Spectre.” Sony even made a Bond Edition smartphone, the Xperia Z5, complete...

Members of the loose hacker collective Anonymous followed through on a pledge to release the names of members of the Ku Klux Klan, but #OpKKK was flawed from the get-go by uncoordinated document dumps and smearing of innocent people who are in no way connected to the KKK. The plan for the op was to “unhood” 1000...

Swiss-based encrypted email provider ProtonMail – developed at the CERN research facility in 2013 to withstand surveillance by the world’s increasingly inquisitive intelligence agencies – has revealed that it handed over 15 bitcoins (about $6000/£4000) to stop a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. With the company’s main site still down, ProtonMail took to WordPress to explain...

We’ve written about ransomware a lot, because it’s such an odious and in-your-face sort of threat. Ironically, ransomware isn’t actually the most dangerous or insidious sort of malware. Ransomware crooks don’t steal your data covertly, or keep track of you via your webcam, or try to read your emails over an extended period for competitive...

If you’re an IT professional, you know better than anyone else about the concerns that go along with securing a business. Anything and everything from ransomware to phishing emails to lost smartphones – the list goes on and on. But of all the terrors that can plague your organization, which are your top concerns? We...

A woman who blabbed on Facebook about “dying from boredom” while serving on a jury has been slapped with a $1000 fine. Kimberly Ellis, of Queens, New York, was on a jury for a case about a 2014 robbery when she began making detail-filled posts, sometimes twice a day, from a courthouse in the Queens...

Drones: even if they sometimes crash into walls, spark fights in the prison yard or get snagged on barbed wire, they’re still more effective for smuggling contraband than cats. US prisons want to take them out. Drones, not cats. The Federal Bureau of Prisons on Wednesday put out a call for information on integrated systems...

What harm can a selfie do? How much do you really give away if you upload images that contain snippets of information unique to you? Just how much detail can a crook really make out in low-resolution mobile phone snapshot that’s uploaded to a social media site? And even if crooks could dig out all...