Russian media outlets report that laws mandating encryption backdoors have been tabled in the Duma.

Citizens using the apps and refusing to let security officials read their messages would be subject to fines of up to 3,000 roubles, officials could be fined up to 5,000 roubles, and legal entities as much as 50,000 roubles.

Seafile GmbH informed its customers on Saturday that they would no longer be able to pay for the service using PayPal—the only payment method that the company had in place.

According to Seafile, PayPal then demanded that Seafile monitor its customers’ data traffic and files for illegal content, and send the payment firm detailed statistics about the types of files synchronized over the service.

StorageOS is a UK-based startup offering simple and automated block storage to stateless containers, giving them state and the means to run databases and other applications that need enterprise-class storage functionality without the concomitant complexity, rigidity and cost.

Security experts are once again warning enterprises to immediately update - or delete - all instances of the Adobe Flash Player they may have installed on any system in the wake of reports that a zero-day flaw in the web browser plug-in is being targeted by an advanced persistent threat group.

"This is the third month in a row that we are seeing a zero-day in Flash, making it most certainly the most targeted software on your organization's endpoints," Kandek says.

Currently available only for Windows Insiders, the new tool fetches a copy of Windows online and performs a clean installation. The only option is whether or not you want to preserve your personal data. Any other software that's installed will be blown away, including the various applications and utilities that OEMs continue to bundle with their systems.

According to Brennan, there's no one else for people to turn to: if they don't want to use US-based technology because it's been forced to use weakened cryptography, they'll be out of luck because non-American solutions are simply "theoretical."

If US firms are mandated to install backdoors, sales of encryption products are going to change very quickly. Very few overseas companies are going to buy a broken encryption system that can be read by US intelligence, and a fair few US companies aren't going to be wild about doing so either.

Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller on Thursday articulated a new vision for the automaker through 2025, describing electric cars, ride-hailing services and cost-cutting as critical to the company's future.

"We believe in the future of this technology, its rapid spread and its revolutionary potential," Mueller said.

Sanford Wallace, 47, is nicknamed the "Spam King" and last year pleaded guilty to federal charges including fraud and criminal contempt in connection with using electronic mail.

Wallace tricked users into visiting websites after gaining access to people's Facebook accounts and then using those accounts to send spam messages to friends.

A database that hosts files from the Air Force’s inspector general and legislative liaison divisions became corrupted last month, destroying data created between 2004 and now, service officials said. Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed Martin, the defense firm that runs the database, could say why it became corrupted or whether they’ll be able to recover the information.

The Air Force has begun asking for assistance from cybersecurity professionals at the Pentagon as well as from private contractors.

Security researchers have discovered a variant of the FLocker Android ransomware that not only infects mobile devices, but also can infect smart TVs running certain versions of the operating system.

“While the screen is locked, the C&C server collects data such as device information, phone number, contacts, real time location, and other information.”

Connected devices have small, but often powerful, embedded computers and most of them have no security defenses and are rarely, if ever, updated. That can make them prime targets for this kind of ransomware.