Nintendo hacker who leaked the Switch ahead of launch pleads guilty, hit with $260K fine and jail time
He also plead guilty to possession of child pornography
Iowa drops charges against security pros arrested for courthouse penetration testing
A win for the security industry
Avast axes marketing subsidiary following public outcry about selling user data to third parties
CEO says it's the right thing to do, but the plunging stock was probably key
Report reveals hackers infiltrated UN servers in Geneva and Vienna last year
Unpatched Sharepoint deployment was exploited to access dozens of servers across three offices
Interior Department orders grounding of Chinese drones over national security concerns
The restrictions raise questions about filling the gap with American-made drones
Google paid researchers $6.5 million in bug bounties last year
The largest single reward was $201,337
Amazon engineer calls for Ring to be shut down permanently
Just as the EFF identified several third-party trackers in Ring's Android app
Researchers disclose new CacheOut attack that targets Intel processors
Intel says a fix is coming soon
Avast's free antivirus solution tracks users online to mine data for companies like Microsoft, Pepsi, and Google
It turns out free security solutions may come at the cost of all your browsing data
London police will deploy live facial recognition cameras to catch criminals
They may improve city security, but at what cost?
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Fad or not? 23andMe lays off 14 percent of workforce in wake of declining sales
Consumers are leery about at-home DNA testing
Twitter wants Clearview AI to remove photos of people it has scraped from its service
Another privacy nightmare is waiting to happen
Misconfigured Microsoft database exposed 250 million customer service records
Some dating back to 2005
Jeff Bezos' phone was reportedly hacked using Saudi Prince's WhatsApp account
Saudi Arabia denies the claims
Apple dumped plan to fully lockup iCloud backups at FBI's request
The government still cannot get into your iPhone, but it can access your iCloud backups
LastPass restores service availability after users report login and autofill issues
Several users were unable to access their accounts since Friday
Recent search warrant reportedly shows FBI can access data on locked iPhone 11
Yet it still wants Apple to unlock earlier models
iPhones can now be set up as physical authentication keys
Only works with Google accounts being accessed via Chrome but better than nothing
Microsoft issues fix for critical Windows flaw disclosed by the NSA
Sometimes help comes from unexpected places
Google wants to make third-party cookies obsolete
The company is trying to strike a balance between user privacy and the need to generate ad revenue
UK intelligence agency warns against using Windows 7 for internet banking, email as Microsoft's OS reaches EOL
No more security updates for consumers, starting today, though business customers can continue to pay for ongoing support
Princeton study: US carriers do little to protect customers from SIM-swap attacks
One more reason to avoid using text messaging for two-factor authentication