Return of the Android SMS virus – self-spreading “Selfmite” worm comes back for more

Back in June 2014, we wrote about an Android virus that worked a bit like the email worms of the early 2000s. Well, that Android virus has made a comeback, and this variant is both pushier and more flexible than before…

FBI’s warrantless ‘hack’ of Silk Road was legal, prosecutors claim

Even if FBI agents did hack their way into the Silk Road without a warrant – and they’re most certainly not confessing to that, mind you – the intrusion would have been an upstanding, law-abiding, Fourth Amendment-respecting act of criminal investigation, the government argued in a Monday court filing.

Reminder: iCloud’s going to demand app-specific passwords from third-party apps

Yes, your third-party calendar, mail and contacts apps that don’t support Apple’s new two-factor authentication system are going to turn 10 toes up on your iThings. You’ll need app-specific passwords to get at the cloud data.