PayPal says it now has 416 million active accounts. …read more Source:: ZDNet

schwit1 writes: Microsoft is preparing a couple of little updates that may curb employee rulebreaking enthusiasm. Yes, this news again comes courtesy of Microsoft’s roadmap service, where Redmond prepares you for the joys to come. This time, there are a couple of joys. The first is headlined: “Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management —…

Well, that took long enough! But, what’s this? The lawsuit still lingers on in one last case from the company that bought SCO’s Unix operating systems. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Plus: Uncle Sam gets tough on patching, NIST needs you, and more In brief A consortium of private equity types have stumped up $12bn in cash to acquire what’s left of McAfee the company plus another couple of billion to pay off its debts.… …read more Source:: Register

Q3 DDoS attacks topped thousands daily, with more growth expected. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The U.S. Justice Department has charged a suspect from Ukraine and a Russian national over a July ransomware attack on an American company, according to indictments made in court filings on Monday, and has seized $6 million in ransom payments. From a report: The latest U.S. actions follow a slew of measures taken to combat…

American social media giant Reddit may soon convert users’ karma points into Ethereum-based (ERC-20) tokens and onboard 500 million new crypto users in the process, according to a newly hired Reddit engineer. From a report: A series of tweets made by Reddit engineer, Rahul, highlights Reddit’s efforts to improve user interaction through various cryptocurrency initiatives….

Hackaday conferences have a long history of excellent T-shirt designs and this year’s Remoticon is no different. If you want one of your own, you need get on that before Friday. The only way to score on is to buy one of the T-Shirt + General Admission tickets by November 11th — it gets you…

Researchers have uncovered a large, tangled web of infrastructure being used to enable a wide variety of cyberattacks. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The DJI’s flagship Mavic 3 has landed. Let’s take a look at it. …read more Source:: ZDNet