Florida skips gun background checks for a year after employee forgets login

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services stopped using the FBI's crime database in February 2016 because an employee couldn't log in.

Bitcoin value tumbles as hackers loot CoinRail cryptocurrency exchange

Another Bitcoin robbery and another Bitcoin price fall - is correlation or causation?

The Google Pixelbook power button is now a 2FA token

The Pixelbook's power button is a 2FA token, which is great, and almost nobody noticed, which isn't.

Florida skips gun background checks for a year after employee forgets login

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services stopped using the FBI's crime database in February 2016 because an employee couldn't log in.

Check your router – list of routers affected by VPNFilter just got bigger

The list of routers VPNFilter can infect now includes another 56 models from Asus, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZTE.

When Ducks collide – an #Infosec18 retrospective [VIDEO]

Ever wondered what happens "off piste" at cybersecurity tradeshows?

Google: We won’t cause “overall harm” with our AI

After the Project Maven-inspired employee revolt, Google has released a set of AI principles and said it's withdrawing from the contract.

US Government’s biometric database worries privacy advocates

It is something few Americans will have heard of, but the US Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) is catching the eye of privacy advocates - and not in a good way.

Welcome to the non-neutral net: Day one

Come Monday morning, when this article posts, net neutrality looks set to be axed. What might the dawn of a net neutrality-free future hold?

Monday review – the hot 21 stories of the week

From Cloudflare's DNS and DDoS mix up and the Zip Slip vulnerability to the Flash zero-day exploit, and more!

WannaCry hero sinks deeper into trouble as new malware charges filed

The young Briton who emerged as the reluctant "WannaCry hero" in 2017 now faces yet more criminal charges over making and selling malware.

Facebook bug may have made 14m users’ posts public

Facebook's been moving fast and breaking things again.

Busted by a Facebook ‘friend’ who’s an undercover cop? It’s legal!

Friending somebody means assuming the risk that they're an undercover cop or informant.

Facebook bug may have made 14m users’ posts public

Facebook's been moving fast and breaking things again.

Patches, toys, busts and awards (ahem, ours!) [Chet Chat Podcast 270]

Here's the latest Chet Chat podcast. Enjoy...

Atlanta ransomware attack destroyed years of police dashcam video

Loss of dashcam footage could compromise investigations, including those concerned with driving under the influence (DUI) cases.

Flash zero-day exploit. Act now!

A newly discovered flaw in the Flash Player is being exploited in the wild - update Flash, or remove it.

Another In-The-Wild Adobe Flash Exploit, Another Out-Of-Band Update

Hackable CloudPets pulled from Target, Walmart, Amazon and more

The stuffed toys are stuffed with security problems that we've known about for over a year.

Oh the irony! When cybercriminals are rubbish at cybersecurity

The Owari DDoS botnet, built by knocking over weakly-secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices, has had a bad week.

Norman the AI bot reads Reddit, becomes “psychopath”

You say tomato. I say tomahto. "Norman" would likely see a traffic fatality splattered on the asphalt.