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Eric Holder, the outgoing US attorney general, has joined the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in calling for the security of all computer systems to be fatally weakened. This isn’t a new project – the idea has been around since the early 1990s, when the NSA classed all strong cryptography as a “munition” and regulated civilian use of it to ensure that they had the keys to unlock any technological countermeasures you put around your data.

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The Food and Drug Administration last week released long-awaited recommendations aimed at better managing cybersecurity risks to protect patient health and information. The new recommendations are included in the final release of a document titled "Content of Premarket Submissions for Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices."

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Apple is sealing up a security hole popularly used to install emulators and other software barred from its App Store. The latest beta versions of iOS 8.1, expected to be released to the public in late October, prevent users from using the bug, known as the “date trick”, to install unsigned apps straight from Safari onto their iOS devices – so-called “side loading”.

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It's a fact of life in virtually every community that there will be countless daily distractions -- news announcements, controversies, squabbles -- that take up the majority of our time and energy, leaving little for the big picture.

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Apple now has the dubious distinction of most-phished brand, according to the latest report from the Anti-Phishing Work Group. For the first half of this year, 17.7 percent of all phishing attacks were aimed at Apple -- a first for the brand -- followed by PayPal (14.4 percent) and Chinese shopping site Taobao.com (13.2 percent), the APWG reported. Have phishers suddenly become more interested in stocking their music libraries from iTunes than siphoning money from PayPal? Not quite.

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