Security Vendors Say Mac OS X Trojan And Backdoor Tool Are On The Loose
Ruh roh, as Scooby would say. Once relatively untouchable, security experts have now found what they claim to be two new pieces of malware specifically…
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WPA Is The New WEP, And By That We Mean Useless
Next week at the PacSec Conference in Tokyo, security researcher Erik Tews is expected to put on quite a show. Tews will be showcasing what…
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T-Mobile Admits To Losing Confidential Data For 17 Million Customers
Deutsche Telekom admitted Saturday that a security breach in 2006 led to the theft of confidential data belonging to 17 million T-Mobile customers. The stolen…
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Microsoft Issues Its Most Secure Update Ever
Microsoft is a company that takes a lot of heat from the public. Sure the Northwest giant may have made some tiny mistakes in the…
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Want Someone's Apple ID Password? Just Ask Apple For It
Wow. Just wow. Marko Karppinen, head of a Finnish software development firm specializing in Mac software, just found himself on the wrong end of a…
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Amazon Patent Hints At Using Doorbell Cameras To Build A Suspicious Persons Database
Jacob Snow, a technology and civil liberties attorney for the ACLU, has been making the rounds telling media outlets that a newly publicized patent from…
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Marriott Reveals That Hackers Accessed Sensitive Information Of 500 Million Guests
Another day, another hack. As we referenced yesterday with respect to the Dunkin' Donuts hack, it seems that we can't even go a week without…
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Tim Cook Calls On Bloomberg To Retract Story Of Alleged Supermicro Hack
Earlier this month, Bloomberg published a bombshell report claiming that agents from a Chinese intelligence organization successfully planted malicious hardware on Supermicro servers that eventually…
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Bloomberg Reports Bombshell Chinese Hardware Attack On US Tech Companies, Met With Swift Denials
A bombshell report claims that China has been developing a massive spying operation for a few years that involved building hardware backdoors into critical server…
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Hackers Can Steal Your Android Unlock Pattern By Turning Your Phone Into A Sonar System
New research from researchers in Sweden and the UK reveals that hackers would be able to steal the unlock pattern of your Android phone by…
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Google Just Launched The Two-Factor Authenticator Dongle You've Been Waiting For
Google on Thursday unveiled the Titan Security Key, a two-factor authentication (2FA) token that should improve your security and make it harder, if not impossible,…
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Yahoo Is Still Reading Some Of Your Emails
It's not unheard of for email service providers to read users' emails to target them with better-tailored ads that would help the company make more…
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Of Course The Fortnite Installer For Android Shipped With A Massive Security Flaw
In the weeks leading to the Fortnite for Android launch, we learned that Epic Games didn't want to make the game available the traditional way…
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Of Course Russia Denies Microsoft's Claim That Russian Hackers Are Attacking The Upcoming Elections
Russia has always maintained it did not interfere in the 2016 US presidential elections, in spite of significant evidence that says otherwise. And Russia continues…
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A 16-Year-Old Hacked Apple And Stole 90GB Of Secure Files
Apple's servers are widely believed to be unhackable, and to date the company hasn't suffered any massive breach that would have exposed user data to…
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ISIS Is Assembling A Cyber Army
Following the deadly assaults on Europe in late 2015 and early 2016, reports emerged suggesting that ISIS has an army of organized hackers who can provide consistent,…
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Is It Safe To Use The Free Wi-Fi At Starbucks?
Walk by any Starbucks within 100 miles of your house and chances are that you'll see several people sitting at a table, drinking coffee and…
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Your Samsung Phone Might Send Your Nudes To Random Contacts Without Your Knowledge
Here's the deal: if you own a Samsung phone, including the Galaxy S9 or the Note 8, your private pics may be at risk. The…
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Don't Panic: There's No Easy Hack To Bypass Your iPhone's Password
Your iPhone or iPad are encrypted only as long as you use a password/PIN lock to protect your device — Touch ID and Face ID…
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Verizon, AT&T, And Sprint Have Stopped Selling Their Customers' Location Data
In today's edition of "you probably didn't know this was still a thing but be glad it stopped," Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint have all confirmed…
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Apple Is Going To Ruin Cops' Favorite Tool For Breaking Into iPhones
In recent months, a law enforcement tool called GrayKey has become publicly known as the gold standard for law enforcement agencies trying to break into…
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Hacker Claims He Has Access To Apple Account Data, But Don't Start Panicking Just Yet
Apple remains a priceless target for hackers who are either trying to breach Apple's defenses or hack Apple customers. A hacker just made the news…
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This Is One Of The Weirdest Android Bugs We've Ever Seen
Android bugs and glitches pop up frequently enough that they aren't all worthy of coverage, but every once in a while, we see a bug…
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The FBI Wants You To Turn Your Router Off And Back On Again
Listen, it's not you, it's the Russians. And this story doesn't involve any collusion and witch hunts. It's just that the FBI would like you…
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Russian Malware Has Supposedly Infected 500,000 Devices Worldwide, And An Attack Is Imminent
Russia is back at it again, security experts say, and by it I mean hacking. Not that Russia ever stops hacking. But the new threat…
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Free Online Service Allowed Anyone To Track Your Phone's Location In Real Time
Last week, The New York Times reported that a former Missouri sheriff had been using location data provided by the phone tracking company Securus Technologies to…
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Study Finds Thousands Of Android Apps That Improperly Track Children
As Facebook continues the fight to put the massive Cambridge Analytica scandal being it, consumer privacy is once again being dragged out into the spotlight.…
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