Gmail’s ‘Self Destruct’ Feature Will Probably Be Used to Illegally Destroy Government Records – Activists have asked Google to disable the feature on government accounts. via /r/technology

Gmail’s ‘Self Destruct’ Feature Will Probably Be Used to Illegally Destroy Government Records – Activists have asked Google to disable the feature on government accounts. https://ift.tt/2JVtsmn Submitted May 04, 2018 at 11:08PM by mvea via reddit https://ift.tt/2HSot55

NSA triples metadata collection numbers, sucking up over 500 million call records in 2017

The National Security Agency revealed a huge increase in the amount of call metadata collected, from about 151 million call records in 2016 to more than 530 million last year — despite having fewer targets. But officials say nothing is different about the year but […]

Abbott Addresses Life-Threatening Flaw In a Half-Million Pacemakers

Abbott Addresses Life-Threatening Flaw In a Half-Million Pacemakers Published on May 05, 2018 at 01:25AM lod123 shares a report from Threatpost: Nearly a half-million pacemakers are up for a firmware update to address potentially life-threatening vulnerabilities. Abbott (formerly St. Jude Medical) has released another upgrade […]