Possible Satori botnet hacker indicted by Feds

A 20 year-old man has been indicted for computer crimes by a federal court in Alaska. Evidence suggests that he could be linked to the Satori botnet that exploited a previously unknown bug in a Huawei router.

Google quietly bought Mastercard credit and debit card records

The multimillion dollar data buy allows Google to link what we buy in brick-and-mortar stores to what ads we clicked online.

Proposed US law would require President to act against overseas hackers

A US senator has announced a bill that would force the President to punish overseas hackers found targeting the US, or explain why he hadn’t.

Why Yahoo scanning user email is no cause for panic

The Wall Street Journal yesterday published an unsettling report that the owner of Yahoo, Verizon subsidiary Oath, has been quietly analysing the emails of its 200 million users to sell to advertisers.