malware Apple issued an emergency update for malware that can turn on mic and camera without the user clicking anything Mark Frauenfelder

malware British schoolkids issued laptops conveniently pre-loaded with malware that connects with Russian servers Mark Frauenfelder

surveillance tech Facebook accuses Israel's NSO Group of exploiting U.S. servers to infect 100s of devices via WhatsApp Xeni Jardin

mac If you are a Mac user, here's how to avoid the most common kind of malware Mark Frauenfelder

obamaphone Virgin's subsidized smartphones come with unremovable Chinese malware Cory Doctorow

pwned Malicious websites that hacked into iPhones over 2-year period targeted Uyghur Muslims in China: Report Xeni Jardin

acoustic hacking Compromised speakers can be forced to play tones so loud that the speakers start to melt Cory Doctorow

AT&T sucks AT&T employees took over $1 million in bribes to plant malware and unlock millions of smartphones: DOJ Xeni Jardin

brickerbot An 14-year-old's Internet-of-Things worm is bricking shitty devices by the thousands Cory Doctorow

ang cui Thangrycat: a deadly Cisco vulnerability named after an emoji ??? Cory Doctorow

safe hex Florida man convinces Western Union clerk to insert a thumb drive, steals $32K, does it again, gets caught Cory Doctorow

reality detection system Android malware uses accelerometer readings to figure out if it was running on a real phone or in emulation Cory Doctorow

seagapped isn't airgapped Ships are just giant floating computers, filled with ransomware, BadUSB, and worms Cory Doctorow

takedowns Malware authors have figured out how to get Google to do "irreversible takedowns" of the sites they compete with Cory Doctorow

event-stream Malware vector: become an admin on dormant, widely-used open source projects Cory Doctorow

everybody hates alex Alex Jones blames "leftist stay-behind networks in US intelligence agencies" for malware on his site Cory Doctorow

superweapons in the hands of dum-dums Wannacry ransomware cost the British National Health Service £92m ($121m) Cory Doctorow

shitty code Tweaks made to Android OS are causing massive security holes Séamus Bellamy

just throw it out New Vpnfilter analysis: modules attack router owners and target industrial control systems; reinfection still possible, more routers vulnerable Cory Doctorow

routers FBI says to reboot your router ASAP to avoid Russia malware VPNFilter Xeni Jardin