Apple will now tell us when governments demand push notification records

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U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon announced on Wednesday that he has requested that the Department of Justice allow Apple and Google to be more transparent about surveillance of mobile push notifications. Wyden’s request comes after becoming aware of “a tip that government agencies in foreign countries were demanding smartphone ‘push’ notification records,” according to…

P2PInfect malware variant targets IoT devices

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Cybersecurity researchers from Cado Security Labs have uncovered a novel variant of the P2PInfect botnet that poses a heightened risk by targeting IoT devices. The latest P2PInfect variant – compiled for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages (MIPS) architecture – signifies an expansion of the malware’s capabilities, potentially paving the way for widespread infections. Security researcher…