A group of U.S. lawmakers preparing to fight a legislative attack on encrypted communications is trying to establish what happened when encryption was subverted at a Silicon Valley maker of networking gear. From a report: Democrat Ron Wyden, who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the 2015 incident at Sunnyvale-based Juniper Networks could shed…

Surely the most straightforward way of creating a smart power strip would be to take an existing model and hack in some relays that you could fire with a WiFi-enabled microcontroller. But where’s the fun in that? Instead of repurposing a commercial power strip for his recent project, [Md Raz] decided to just build the…

Hertz continues to offload used rental cars at low prices. You can find Toyota, VW, and BMW models well below street value. …read more Source:: CNet

The charming little Crosstrek hatchback gets a number of other welcome updates. …read more Source:: CNet

A new report by Digital Shadows Photon Research Team examines a newly launched DDoS protection filter mechanism dubbed EndGame advertised on the dark web community forum Dread, which required a combined effort from many parts of the dark web to create a solution for an ongoing problem that has been slowly killing off the cybercriminal…

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The increasingly prevalent GuLoader malware has been traced back to a far-reaching encryption service that attempts to pass as above-board. …read more Source:: Threatpost