The social media giant cracked down on Facebook Pages suspected of political deception months before the November midterm elections.

Threatpost editors Tom Spring and Lindsey O’Donnell talk about the week’s biggest news.

Security executive Alex Stamos called on Facebook to change its strategy around data in an internal memo – and privacy experts agree.

Speakers at Virus Bulletin painted grim pictures of the threats to physical safety and civil liberties posed by commercial spyware and high-end surveillance software often sold to governments.

The news of the week is discussed, including how Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTech was arrested in Las Vegas, Alex Stamos’ Black Hat keynote, and this week’s proposed IoT legislation.

Black Hat may be the benchmark signaling the end of security nihilism and snark, and a re-prioritization of energy toward the greater good.

At Black Hat, Facebook CSO Alex Stamos’ keynote message was one of bringing empathy and inclusion to security, and that it’s time to stop being insular.

Mike Mimoso and Tom Spring preview Black Hat, which starts tomorrow in Las Vegas.

Yahoo’s latest SEC filing includes confirmation that it knew attackers were on its network in 2014 and stole information on 500 million accounts.

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