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 →
Developers at Automattic, the parent company behind the blogging platform WordPress, fixed a nasty stored cross-site scripting error this week in Akismet, an anti-spam plugin that figures into millions ofRead More →
A banking trojan, detected by ESET as Win32/Brolux.A, is targeting Japanese internet banking users and spreading through at least two vulnerabilities: a Flash vulnerability leaked in the Hacking Team hackRead More →
Researchers show how mass decryption is well within the NSA’s $11 billion budget. For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic softwareRead More →
The impunity of drone operators may have run its course, as a science and technology firm has just unveiled means to reign in rogue UAVs (Unmanned Air Vehicles). This droneRead More →
You may be under the impression that the new EMV chip system for credit card payments is nice and secure. But the UK’s been using it since 2003 — soRead More →
