Some consumer-grade, self-encrypting external hard drives are littered with security vulnerabilities that render their encryption an afterthought. An academic paper published in late September took apart a number of drivesRead More →
The dark web is well known as a space where anything can be bought or sold: guns, drugs, stolen data, and extreme pornography are all relatively easy to get holdRead More →
As long as you meet the minimum speed requirements, that is. Shortly after the announcement of iOS 8 in 2014, Googlemade headlines by saying that it would make full-device encryptionRead More →
Unbelievable Breaking News: IoT kettles are insecure. Security researchers at Pen Test Partners have found a security vulnerability in the iKettle Wi-Fi Electric Kettle that allows attackers to crack the passwordRead More →
This malicious browser looks and acts just like Chrome–except for all the pop-up ads, system file hijacking, and activity monitoring. Security researchers have discovered a fiendish form of browser malwareRead More →
THE CHIP-ENABLED CREDIT card system long used in Europe, a watered down version of which is rolling out for the first time in America, is meant to create a doubleRead More →
A HACKER WHO claims to have broken into the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan says he obtained access by posing as a Verizon worker to trick another employeeRead More →
A recently discovered zero-day bug may be at fault.Security researchers from both Sucuri and Malwarebytes have observed a recent massive malware distribution campaign that leverages Magento websites to redirect usersRead More →
Apps are “definitely the kind of stuff that Apple should have caught,” researcher says. Researchers said they’ve found more than 250 iOS apps that violate Apple’s App Store privacy policyRead More →
Facebook will now detect when state hackers are trying to hijack accounts, and alert users when it happens Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer at Facebook, has announced a new systemRead More →
The online hacktivist Anonymous conducted powerful DDoS attacks on the official websites of two of the Japan‘s busiest airports and forced them to stay down for about 8 hours. TheRead More →
Code reviewers looking over a mail daemon have turned up a couple of reasonably serious bugs in the Libre SSL code base – and along the way provided a handyRead More →
The number of countries deploying it grows to 32.FinFisher, a piece of spyware sold to governments by a German security vendor, has been linked by recent research to at leastRead More →
Industry looking to improve access controls and authentication, but decisions still governed by security requirements, use cases, hacker disruption. Yahoo this week became the latest to pass out the torchesRead More →
There’s a dark side to Android root providers, even when they’re fully disclosed. A handful of app distributors are putting hundreds of millions of Android users at risk by bundlingRead More →
A group of Russian hackers infiltrated the servers of Dow Jones & Co., owner of the Wall Street Journal and several other news publications, and stole information to trade onRead More →
Developers have been quick to fix the problem. An important security issue on Ubuntu phone that has been revealed this morning has been fixed by the Canonical team. This is theRead More →
TeslaCrypt doesn’t mean anything to many PC users, but there are thousands of people who have somehow contracted this infectious malware program that imprisons personal files on a computer until aRead More →
UltraDNS, a web content delivery service, went down Thursday afternoon, taking with it a number of popular websites, including Netflix and Expedia. The cause of the 90-minute failure was anRead More →
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) was designed to help secure websites (those using HTTPS) by declaring to web browsers that they should communicate only via HTTPS with the server toRead More →
