Financial Times sources understand that Universal is using licensing negotiations to squeeze Spotify and demand more limits for those who don't pay up, such as restricting the amount of time they can play tunes in a given month.

Whether or not Spotify gives in is another matter. It can't afford to lose one of the major labels, but it's also adamant that having an enticing free tier is crucial to getting listeners to pay.

Computer users identified by Capital as working on the NYPD headquarters' network have edited and attempted to delete Wikipedia entries for several well-known victims of police altercations, including entries for Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo.

NYPD IP addresses have also been used to edit entries on stop-and-frisk, NYPD scandals, and prominent figures in the city’s political and police leadership.

The outage impacted sales on the iTunes Store, iBooks Store, App Store, and Mac App Store. Users were unable to buy apps or other content, and in some cases they were are prevented from downloading updates and even opening already-purchased apps.

In 2013, Tor received more than $1.8 million from the U.S. government, about 75 percent of the $2.4 million in total annual expenses, according to their latest publicly available tax returns.

There is actually wide agreement among both Tor insiders and outsiders that discussing Tor’s government funding is an important next step for the organization.

On Wednesday the AP reported that Clinton actually ran a private mail server in her home during her entire tenure leading the State Department, hosting her email at the domain Clintonemail.com.

Any protection it had there—aside from the physical protection of the Secret Service—would have been limited to the Clintons’ own personal resources.

The trend will continue in 2015, driven by the lack of security awareness among WordPress' large user base and the lack of security expertise among its plugin developers, according to experts.

In 2010, Joomla and its associated plugins had four times as many vulnerabilities reported as Drupal and WordPress, according to the National Vulnerability Database. In 2012, Drupal led the pack, and in 2014, WordPress and its plugins had three times as many bugs reported as the next highest CMS.

Uber is trying to force GitHub to disclose the IP address of every person that accessed a webpage connected to a database intrusion that exposed sensitive personal data for 50,000 drivers. The court action revealed that a security key unlocking the database was stored on a publicly accessible place, the online equivalent of stashing a house key under a doormat.

The wording of Uber's complaint, saying a security key protecting the Uber database was stored on a publicly assessable GitHub page, is a step backwards for Uber as it attempts to reassure the public that the significant amount of information it holds is safe from prying eyes.

Mozilla has outfoxed three critical and six high severity flaws in its latest round of patches for its flagship browser.

The new version of the browser also adds HTTP2 support ®

For many people, email was their first experience of online communication, and seemed at first a magical new way of connecting at work and at home. Now, though, it looks old hat. Teenagers, we are told, are using everything from Snapchat to WhatsApp to communicate and are unlikely to respond if you email them - something I can confirm from personal experience.

Of around 200 emails from outside my organisation, many were from mailing lists I signed up to in the dim and distant past.

Software engineer Laxman Muthiyah has reported a dangerous vulnerability capable of deleting any photo from Facebook, prompting The Social NetworkTM to patch the hole within two hours and issue one of its biggest bug-spotting cheques ever.

Muthiyah published a proof of concept video detailing the vulnerability and received praise from industry for finding the bug.