Ten percent of the 550,000 IoT nodes in the Mirai botnet are involved in ongoing DDoS attacks against DNS provider Dyn and others.

Martin Thomson, a Principle Engineer at Mozilla confirmed TLS 1.3 will be turned on by default in Firefox 52.

A privilege escalation vulnerability, nicknamed Dirty Cow and present in Linux since 2007, has been used in public attacks against web-facing Linux servers.

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.