Sony has agreed to pay up to $8m over employees’ personal data lost in the 2014 hacking scandal surrounding the release of The Interview. Hackers had broken into the company’sRead More →
Sharon Goldberg remembers the cold February day when her Boston University PhD candidate Aanchal Malhotra was studying routing security, in particular, attacks against the resource public key infrastructure (RPKI)—and keptRead More →
Apple has released security updates to fix critical vulnerabilities in the following Apple products: OS X El Capitan, Mavericks and Yosemite, OS X Server, Safari, watchOS, iOS, iTunes, Xcode, andRead More →
Security researcher Axelle Apvrille has managed to deliver malware to a FitBit Flex fitness tracker, and to spread the infection to any computer that the device is subsequently connected to.Read More →
All users of the Linux 4.2 kernel must upgrade It looks like it’s still October 22 in some countries, so Greg Kroah-Hartman announced just a few minutes ago the immediateRead More →
Exploits can be used to snoop on encrypted traffic and cause debilitating outages. Serious weaknesses in the Internet’s time-synchronization mechanism can be exploited to cause debilitating outages, snoop on encryptedRead More →
My new Xiaomi Mi 4c smartphone arrived yesterday after an interlude with a German customs agent and several days of delay. I first thought that I had to fight myRead More →
Oracle on Tuesday patched 154 vulnerabilities in 54 different products as part of its regularly scheduled Critical Patch Update. More than half of the patches, 84 to be exact, addressRead More →
The CIA and the FBI are always looking for backdoors in Apple devices, in fact, the agency spent years trying to hack iPhone and iPads according to documents released by NSA’s EdwardRead More →
Jailbreak team PanguTeam was credited with finding two security flaws. Apple has fixed 49 separate security vulnerabilities in iOS 9.1. The company, which released the software on Wednesday for iPhonesRead More →
WIKILEAKS MAY DESCRIBE itself as an outlet for whistleblowers, but it’s never hesitated to publish stolen documents offered up by a helpful hacker, either. So it’s no surprise that it’sRead More →
Free service backed by EFF is now trusted by all major browsers. A nonprofit effort aimed at encrypting the entire Web has reached an important milestone: its HTTPS certificates areRead More →
ESET researchers receive and analyze thousands of new malware samples every day. Earlier this year, one of them caught our attention because it was not an ordinary executable file, butRead More →
To avoid viral stains, go jogging alone or with Bluetooth binned. A vulnerability in FitBit fitness trackers first reported to the vendor in March could still be exploited by theRead More →
Swindlers impersonate Apple service that remotely accesses user desktops. For years, scammers claiming that they’re “calling from Windows” have dialed up Microsoft customers and done their best to trick themRead More →
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 →
