Siri has been lambasted in the press lately, with no shortage of tech observers opining that Apple's personal intelligent assistant lags woefully behind competitors like…
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Last Friday, hackers successfully managed to unleash an absolutely massive DDoS attack that swiftly knocked a number of popular websites offline, including Twitter, Spotify and…
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One of the more common ways that purveyors of malware are able to trick unsuspecting users into downloading malicious software is to prey upon the…
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Yahoo will confirm later this week that hackers did breach its systems in 2012, stealing personal data for about 200 million accounts, including easily decrypted…
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Trying to scam someone on the internet is always a bad idea, but if that someone turns out to be the head of a security…
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With the Snowden leaks, Stingray and FBI surveillance planes always in the news, most people just assume that The Man has god-like surveillance capabilities on…
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Phishing scams that use fake login pages to steal account usernames and passwords are nothing new. The trick for hackers is to fool customers into…
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Whether or not you have active Netflix or Apple accounts makes no difference to hackers looking to steal precious personal data. But you should be aware…
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Biometric authentication systems have been around for ages, but it wasn't until Apple released Touch ID alongside the iPhone 5s that it entered the mainstream.…
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In mid-March, during the FBI vs. Apple scandal surrounding the encrypted San Bernardino iPhone, a report revealed that security researchers from Johns Hopkins University were…
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At the Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas last week, Apple introduced its first bug bounty program. Whereas Apple has historically relied upon security researchers…
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It sounds way too good to be true. "One Weird Trick Can Get You Into Any Airline Lounge You Want!" But as Wired reports, one ethical hacker…
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Over the past couple of days, Walmart users have been seeing unsolicited password recovery emails pop up in their inboxes. There's clearly something fishy going…
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According to hundreds of reports on social media, people across the US have been receiving password reset emails for their Walmart.com accounts, indicating that someone…
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Savvy Apple fans around the world were elated to learn that a tool had finally been released to jailbreak iOS 9.3.3 and other recent iOS builds on…
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In August of 2014, private photos and videos stolen from private online accounts from a number of celebrities were released online. Once authorities began to investigate,…
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Yes, Facebook says that anyone can see any of the three million links that are shared every hour in private conversations. That's a feature, not…
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Whether you're looking to protect your PC or an entire fleet of computers, chances are you've either considered or have ended up purchasing products from Symantec. The…
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Webcam security was thrust into the spotlight this week when a photo of Mark Zuckerberg appeared to show the camera and microphone on his MacBook covered…
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According to a report in the Washington Post, Russian government-sponsored hackers have penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee. Rather than stealing user data,…
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Torrenting TV shows isn't a particularly risky activity, but most pirates tend to prefer to keep their identity a secret. That's why a security breach…
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If there's one person you'd think would use good security to protect social media accounts, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg would be a good bet. But…
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WhatsApp has recently announced that all its chats are protected by end-to-end encryption, meaning that only the sender and receiver will be able to read the…
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Teamviewer, a piece of software that people can use to remote-control PCs, appears to have been hacked. Numerous user reports have indicated that unknown third…
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Researchers from Trustwave's SpiderLabs research team recently discovered a new zero-day exploit that affects all versions of Windows from Windows 2000 all the way up…
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Craigslist's heyday may be behind it at this point, but millions of people still flock to the site in search of all sorts of discounted goods…
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An old piece of ATM malware is back, and reportedly more dangerous and harder to detect than ever. According to security researchers from Kaspersky Labs,…
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