Researchers said last week they came across a malicious function that was snuck into a module in Magento in order to steal credit card information.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including a rash of new IP camera backdoors, James Comey’s talk at Boston College, hacking back vs. active defense, and the DOJ dropping one of its Playpen cases.

A U.S. senator from Florida sent Spiral Toys CEO Mark Meyers a letter demanding answers about the recent CloudPets breach.

The makers of the popular messaging app Confide said Wednesday it has patched multiple security vulnerabilities that could of allowed hackers to intercept messages sent using its secure end-to-end messaging platform.

FBI Director James Comey revived old rhetoric on strong encryption during a keynote at the Boston Conference on Cyber Security. He did not address the leak of CIA hacking tools or Russia during his talk.

Western Digital NAS owners were warned of critical flaws in the company’s My Cloud line of hardware that opened up data stored on those devices to attack.

Western Digital NAS owners were warned of critical flaws in the company’s My Cloud line of hardware that opened up data stored on those devices to attack.

Prosecutors with the U.S. Department of Justice dropped their case against a suspect who visited the dark web site child pornography site Playpen.

Prosecutors with the U.S. Department of Justice dropped their case against a suspect who visited the dark web site child pornography site Playpen.

The news of the week is recapped, including the fallout around CloudBleed, the CloudPets breach, and a Slack token bug. The life of Howard Schmidt is also remembered.