The dangers of Skyping and typing, the fingerprint warrant story, hiding credit card numbers in images, and more are discussed.

DNS providers Dyn suffered a DDoS attack this morning that affected many of its major customers including Twitter, Spotify, Github and others. Services have been restored as of 9:36 a.m. today.

A phishing campaign aimed at Apple users in China that relies heavily on typosquatting has resurfaced.

Microsoft malware researchers say Locky ransomware authors are changing tactics again to evade detection.

Yahoo wrote DNI James Clapper asking the government to confirm and declassify an order to scan email for intelligence surveillance purposes.

An academic paper demonstrates a new ASLR bypass executed through a side-channel attack against the branch target buffer in an Intel Haswell CPU.

A study finds risky apps leave mobile devices open to SMS denial-of-service attack and remote SIM card rooting.

The FruityArmor APT group was using one of the Windows zero days patched by Microsoft last week to escape sandboxes and carry out targeted attacks.

A research paper explains how attackers can use recordings of keystroke sounds captured in a Skype conversation to guess what’s being typed.

Oracle fixed 253 vulnerabilities across 76 different products with its quarterly Critical Patch Update.