Ahead of a landmark agreement between the US and China over cyberespionage, Chinese authorities arrested several hackers sought by the US.
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California nixes warrantless search of digital data
California police will no longer be able to get their hands on phone or other digital data about users without a warrant.
Lottery chief who “rigged the randomness” is jailed for 10 years
He was supposed to protect the lottery from fraudsters and cheats, but the court was told that he used USB malware to cheat the lottery himself.
The man who owned Google for sixty seconds
It was never about the money, said the man who owned Google.com for 1 minute earlier this month.
Nuisance calls and dubious subscriptions pose fraud risk to UK consumers
Bogus offers to block nuisance calls and mail scams separate Brits from millions of pounds per year.
Help wanted: someone to hack cars for Canada defense research arm
If you’re a hacker highly skilled at finding exploits in connected cars, here’s a job for you – hacking cars for the Canadian military.
Apple excommunicates adblockers that could access users’ private data
Apple’s blocked apps that installed root certificates that could have allowed them to see all of a users’ web traffic.
Lyft: It wasn’t our CTO who cracked Uber’s database
Uber’s sleuthing didn’t reveal the hand of Lyft’s CTO in the cookie jar, but an unidentified party at his IP address allegedly eyed the key.
“I will not knit my own cryptography!” 60 Second Security
Watch this week’s episode of our upbeat 1-minute security news video…
Obama opts for “good cop” approach with encryption backdoors
The Obama administration won’t seek legislation to force technology companies to decrypt communications, FBI Director James Comey told Congress in a public hearing on Thursday.