It’s the holiday gift-buying season, which means it’s time to carefully consider security features when buying Internet-connected devices. Plus, a kid's watch with big security problems and a warning for Black Friday.

Today's podcast looks at good guy hackers who earn money at a security conference, a new report on how criminals use the Internet to get you to call them and a push for a US privacy law

Today’s podcast looks at four recent email scams, including one impersonating a Canadian cabinet minister, and advice on how not to be taken in

Beware of Twitter messages promising free cryptocurrency, a drone manufacturers’ web site patched and how to make passwords safter

Stop swiping your credit card, problems with self-encrypting hard drives and another patch for Adobe Struts

Researchers accuse China Telecom of hijacking Internet traffic for the government, Radisson Hotel’s reward card program hacked and vulnerabilities found in a Bluetooth Wi-Fi chip

A FIFA data breach is about to make headlines, how to hack a pumpkin, and Facebook’s new system to prevent fake ads is easily fooled.

Americans are worried about threats to next week’s mid-term elections; searching for Chrome using Bing leads to unexpected results, and why using a company computer to visit adult web sites can lead to a very embarrassing audit.

Android voice mail scam, bad apps in Google Store and better privacy control for Google searches