The US Homeland Security chief said last week his department will insist on "enhanced security measures" for US-bound flights around the world, although it gave very little detail about the new measures, which will be "both seen and unseen."

Citing an unnamed source at Qatar Airways, the Times reports that TSA wants all US-bound passengers be subject to explosive trace detection screening, whether their bags go in the main cabin or in the hold.

Denver-based Photobucket is now seeking a $399 (£309) annual fee from those who wish to continue using it for "third-party hosting" and is facing a social media backlash as a consequence.

"People who have used Photobucket for hosting these images successfully for over 10 years are finding that they will have to literally start again with what for some, amounts to a lifetime's work."

According to SEC Consult, the library's bugs allow attackers to decrypt messages, modify signed messages, and attack hosts implementing the protocol.

CVE-2017-10669 is a signature wrapping attack that allows the miscreant to change the contents of a message without invalidating the signature; and finally there's a deserialisation bug that, like CVE-2017-10670, allows an external entity injection.

The second launch of China's new-generation Long March-5 carrier rocket failed Sunday -- dealing a blow to the country's ambitious space aspirations.

Dubbed "Chubby 5" for its huge size -- 5 meters in diameter and 57 meters tall -- the LM-5 rocket is designed to carry up to 25 tons of payload into low orbit, more than doubling the country's previous lift capability.

The demand, equivalent to about 20,000 bottles being bought every second, is driven by an apparently insatiable desire for bottled water and the spread of a western, urbanised “on the go” culture to China and the Asia Pacific region.

Most plastic bottles used for soft drinks and water are made from polyethylene terephthalate (Pet), which is highly recyclable. But as their use soars across the globe, efforts to collect and recycle the bottles to keep them from polluting the oceans, are failing to keep up.

Major drinks brands produce the greatest numbers of plastic bottles. Coca-Cola produces more than 100bn throwaway plastic bottles every year – or 3,400 a second, according to analysis carried out by Greenpeace after the company refused to publicly disclose its global plastic usage.

The act also requires companies to maintain "an effective and transparent procedure for dealing with complaints, which is readily recognizable, directly accessible and constantly available to users," according to a Bundestag statement.

Heiko Maas, Germany's federal minister of justice and consumer protection, said the law is meant to "prevent a climate of fear and intimidation."

Windows 10 testers can now access a preview of the changes that include a new controlled folder access feature. It’s designed to only allow specific apps to access and read / write to a folder. If enabled, the default list prevents apps from accessing the desktop, pictures, movies, and documents folders.

The new controlled folder feature is designed to protect against viruses and ransomware from locking machines out of certain folders.

This "high" level security notice is regarding an out-of-bounds write in systemd-resolved that could allow a remote attacker to crash the daemon or execute arbitrary code via a DNS response. This bug has been present since systemd 223 and was still present in systemd as of yesterday.

The family of an Uber driver murdered on the job in Illinois is taking Walmart to court. In a Cook County lawsuit, (PDF) the family of driver Grant T. Nelson alleges that the retail giant was negligent when it allowed the murder suspect to steal a machete and a knife before walking past security personnel without being stopped.

The girl has been charged with murder as an adult in connection to Nelson's death, and she remains jailed without bail.

Humans are more vulnerable than ever to propaganda, and we have no clue what to do about it.

The problem is that most people weren't raised to expect that their social spaces would be full of bots, blabbing the results of simple algorithms and infecting human conversations with misdirection. Rarely do audiences on Twitter and Facebook pause to wonder where their information is coming from.