FTC Offers $25K for IoT Security Ideas
The FTC has decided that IoT security is in such bad shape that the best alternative is to to offer the public a $25,000 reward for help fixing it. The commission is sponsoring a new contest that asks people to submit innovative ideas for improving the update process for IoT devices, which is virtually non-existent for […]
California Law Makes Ransomware Use Illegal
It was nice to see the calendar turn over to 2017, for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that on Jan. 1 a new law went into effect in California that outlaws the use of ransomware. The idea of needing a new law to make a form of hacking illegal may seem […]
Tor Browser Adds Sandbox
The newest release of the Tor browser for Linux now include a sandbox, which is designed to make it more difficult for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. The Tor Project also is working on a sandbox mechanism for the browser on OS X. Most of the major browsers have added sandboxes in recent years in an […]