Encrypted data is often easily recovered, in some cases with no password required. Source: Western Digital self-encrypting hard drives riddled with security flaws

Crowdstrike accuses China of attempting hacks of pharma, tech firms. Source: Security firm report: China may already be breaking agreement on hacking | Ars Technica

Whenever cryptographer and computer security specialist Bruce Schneier issues a warning about something, I pay close attention. What follows are excerpts from a recent piece he wrote for >>>

San Francisco – A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser >>>

Beyond underhanded, Comcast and other carriers are inserting their own ads and notifications into their customers’ data streams Source: Code injection: A new low for >>>

Over 260 security and network experts, including the co-inventor of the Internet, Vint Cerf, sent an open letter to the FCC asking it to mandate >>>

New York Police are using vans with X-ray capability but won’t officially say what they’re using them for. Source: NYPD uses secret X-ray vans with >>>

Yet another reason not to plug a USB stick of unknown origin into one of … Source: This USB stick will fry your computer within >>>