AI offers an immense capacity for good — and for unintended consequences.

Threatpost editors discuss the stories behind the biggest news that broke this week.

A Facebook glitch in May set millions of posts that users composed to “public” for ten days.

Adobe patched the Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2018-5002) earlier on Thursday.

Experts say the devil is in the details when it comes to complying with the swath of new privacy and cybersecurity laws enforced by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.

The payload is a commercial version of the Imminent Monitor tool, which is marketed as legitimate software.

Pen Test Partners demonstrates how to send vessels off-course or even onto a path to collision — fairly easily.

A new malicious campaign has compromised more than 40,000 machines globally to monetize via traffic hijacking and cryptomining.

Amazon, Target and Walmart have pulled the bears from their online markets; but it’s the installed base of the connected cuddlies that should be of greater concern.

It’s the latest example of the hackability of off-the-shelf IoT devices – even when default passwords are changed.