According to Mashable, however, WhatsApp has no plan to comply with the court order and it will have "no impact on the planned policy and terms of service updates."

The case before the Delhi High Court was brought by two Indian students who alleged the new terms of service will jeopardize the privacy and "severely compromises" the rights of over 100 million active WhatsApp users in their country.

WhatsApp has now issued a statement saying it will follow the court order in India.

HP Inc. today said it will restore the ability of certain OfficeJet printers to use third-party ink cartridges, after being criticized for issuing a firmware update that rejects non-HP ink.

This customer-friendly move may just be a one-time thing. HP said it will continue to use security features that "protect our IP including authentication methods that may prevent some third-party supplies from working."

"After the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook two years ago, both parties have publicly assured [users] that data will not be shared between them," said commissioner Johannes Caspar in a statement.

EU and US regulators reacted with caution, saying that the update needed to be investigated. The UK's Information Commissioner is also looking into the changes.

A social hangout website for teenage girls has sprung a leak that's exposing plaintext passwords protecting as many as 5.5 million user accounts. As this post went live, all attempts to get the leak plugged had failed.

It's bad enough that a SQL-injection vulnerability that dumps passwords remained unfixed even after it was privately reported. It's even worse that the database contained plaintext passwords.

On Sept. 20, Krebs tweeted that his site was hit with a DDoS attack of 665G bps. A day later, on Sept. 21, Octave Klaba, founder of OVH tweeted that his network was affected on Sept. 20 by simultaneous DDoS attacks approaching 1T bps. The peak attacks came in at 191G bps and 799G bps.

Akamai decided on Sept. 22 to drop support for Krebs, who had been a pro bono customer on the platform. An Akamai spokesperson said that decision to drop support for Krebs wasn't made lightly, but the costs and impact of defending against the large DDoS were non-trivial.

“At the least, this effort is intended to sow doubt about the security of our election and may well be intended to influence the outcomes,” the statement said. “We believe that orders for the Russian intelligence agencies to conduct such actions could come only from very senior levels of the Russian government.”

White House officials have repeatedly insisted that they are awaiting the outcome of a formal FBI investigation, even though U.S. intelligence are said to have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia was responsible for the DNC breach and other attacks.

Capcom claims it uses the driver to stop players from hacking the high-def beat 'em up to cheat. Unfortunately, the code is so badly designed, it opens up a full-blown local backdoor.

It switches off a crucial security defense in the operating system, then runs whatever instructions are given to it by the application, and then switches the protection back on.

What is then heard seems to be a discussion of what charges might be brought against Picard.

"So, we can hit him with reckless use of the highway by a pedestrian and creating a public disturbance, and whatever he said," says Jacobi.

Torneo adds: "And then we claim that, um, in backup, we had multiple people, um, they didn't want to stay and give us a statement, so we took our own course of action."

To the lay ear, this all sounds suspicious and precisely the sort of thing some citizens fear happens too often.

Broadly speaking, the Get Windows 10 program seems to have been successful. Windows 10's uptake was unprecedented for a Windows release, with more than 350 million people now using the operating system—a number that hasn't been updated for several weeks.

The removal of the software isn't going to undo the reputational harm that Microsoft deliberately caused itself with the aggressive upgrade tactics, but it should at least provide some reassurance that Windows 7 or 8.1 will never again try to push a major update.

Just over a week since Google warned it would start labeling HTTP websites as "not secure," CloudFlare promises to help the many, many website owners who have a mix of both secure and insecure content on their sites, through what it is calling "automatic HTTPS rewrites."

CloudFlare is offering – incorporated into its existing services for no additional fee – a cutting-edge level of encryption that is mildly useful right now but should become increasingly useful as the drive to move to an encrypted internet becomes a reality.