How companies can identify their own insecure data, remediate data breaches and proactively secure data against future attacks. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The space advocacy organization The Planetary Society recently confirmed that its LightSail 2 spacecraft has sent its first signals home from space. From a report: The roughly 11-lb. (5 kilograms) cubesat is designed to prove that solar sailing is a feasible way of keeping satellites moving. Fuel is a costly and heavy commodity, and if…

App-based services have made our lives easier in so many ways. But when things go awry, they offer few paths to real assistance [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled]. From a report: There’s a trade-off between the speed of apps and their ability to provide timely help. Customer service isn’t dead, it’s just hiding…

One New York viewer tried to buy cocaine at the theater to get her through the movie. …read more Source:: CNet

Smart speakers have proliferated since their initial launch earlier this decade. The devices combine voice recognition and assistant functionality with a foreboding sense that paying corporations for the privilege of having your conversations eavesdropped upon could come back to bite one day. For this reason, [Yihui] is attempting to build an open-source smart speaker from…

As previously announced, Mozilla has started to tease the launch of a new $5 monthly subscription to a variety of online news publishers that involves no ads. The idea is that a single, low subscription fee gives you access to a number of sites with the ads removed. From a report: You pay a monthly…

Victim firm Eurofins Scientific handles more than 70,000 criminal cases per year in the UK. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. …read more Source:: CNet

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in WordPress plugin WP Statistics could have enabled full website takeover. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Over ten million users have been duped in installing a fake Samsung app named “Updates for Samsung” that promises firmware updates, but, in reality, redirects users to an ad-filled website and charges for firmware downloads. From a report: “I have contacted the Google Play Store and asked them to consider removing this app,” Aleksejs Kuprins,…