How safe is encryption today?
When checking your email over a secure connection, or making a purchase from an online retailer, have you ever wondered how your private information or credit card data is kept secure?
View ArticleStudy finds location sharing by apps prompts privacy action
Many smartphone users know that free apps sometimes share private information with third parties, but few, if any, are aware of how frequently this occurs. An experiment at Carnegie Mellon University...
View ArticleBitWhisper turns up heat on air-gap security
Ben Gurion University reported Monday that researcher Mordechai Guri, assisted by Matan Munitz and guided by Prof. Yuval Elovici, uncovered a way to breach air-gapped systems—that's quite something...
View ArticleNew technology to help users combat mobile malware attacks
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers have developed simple but effective techniques to prevent sophisticated malware from secretly attacking smartphones. This new malware defense is being...
View ArticleCorporate accounts targeted in Dyre Wolf campaign
A sophisticated and brazen theft operation has been brought to attention this month by IBM Security, which refers to it as the "Dyre Wolf Campaign." It has been active and successful, having stolen...
View ArticleBitGlass experiment highlights the speed at which stolen credit card...
California based BitGlass, a security broker and data protection company, has conducted an experiment to learn more about what happens to consumer data when it is stolen—in this case, credit card...
View ArticleComputer users face hard choice—pay ransom or lose files
It's a chilling moment: A message appears on a computer screen, saying the files are encrypted and the only way to access them is by paying a ransom.
View ArticleHackers keep trying new targets in search of easy data
The health care sector has become the hot target for hackers in recent months, according to researchers at Symantec, a leading cybersecurity company that says it's also seeing big increases in...
View ArticleInvestigators warn airplane computers could be hacked
The same Internet access now available on most commercial flights makes it possible for hackers to bring down a plane, a government watchdog warned Tuesday.
View ArticleUniversity group reveals geo-inference attack threat that uses browser cache...
A team of researchers at the National University of Singapore has published a paper on their university web site outlining what they describe as geo-inference attacks—where hackers can set up a website...
View ArticleSecurity meet hears about "No iOS Zone" vulnerability
At the RSA security conference in San Francisco. a security firm's researchers presented what they said was a vulnerability allowing attackers to crash iOS devices in range of a WiFi hotspot. Chris...
View ArticleOnline voting a step closer thanks to breakthrough in security technology
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a technique to allow people to cast their election vote online - even if their home computers are suspected of being infected with viruses.
View ArticleMumblehard targets servers running Linux and BSD
Security watchers are talking about a family of malware that infects Linux and BSD servers. Marc-Etienne M. Léveillé, ESET malware researcher, has provided details about Linux/Mumblehard, which targets...
View ArticleRombertik malware: evasive, layered, out to steal
By now, you can at least compose some of the story line for a made-for-Hollywood script. Ten times over. Researchers at XYZ discover malware that steals login credentials and data. The malware du jour...
View ArticlePlayStation helps paint user's digital footprint
Digital investigators are now able to extract information stored on a PlayStation 4 console thanks to a forensically sound method developed by local researchers.
View ArticleResearchers hack a teleoperated surgical robot to reveal security flaws
To make cars as safe as possible, we crash them into walls to pinpoint weaknesses and better protect the people who use them.
View Article'Venom' vulnerability found in virtualization platforms allows complete...
Security firm CrowdStrike has found a potentially serious vulnerability in a type of virtualization platform that could allow a hacker to breakout from its own virtual space and into the space of other...
View ArticleSecurity expert said he accessed plane controls mid-flight (Update)
A security researcher told federal agents he was able to hack into aircraft computer systems mid-flight numerous times through the in-flight entertainment systems, and at one point he caused a plane he...
View ArticleNSA planned hack of Google app store
The US National Security Agency developed plans to hack into data links to app stores operated by Google and Samsung to plant spyware on smartphones, a media report said Thursday.
View ArticleLogjam isn't the only reason your computer might be more vulnerable to...
There's a hole in the protection surrounding some of the internet's supposedly secure websites. A group of researchers has discovered that cyber criminals and other hackers can attack websites that use...
View ArticleSubway riders' smartphones could carry tracking malware
Millions of city dwellers with smartphones in hand, pocket or bag, use trains to get around night and day, seven days a week. The incoming message from three researchers in China is that an attacker...
View Article104,000 taxpayers have personal info stolen from IRS website
More than 100,000 taxpayers have had their personal tax information stolen from an IRS website as part of an elaborate scheme to claim fraudulent tax refunds.
View ArticleSelf-driving cars vulnerable to cyberattack, experts warn
Hackers pose a real danger to self-driving vehicles, US experts are warning, and carmakers and insurers are starting to factor in the risk.
View ArticleFBI behind mysterious surveillance aircraft over US cities (Update)
Scores of low-flying planes circling American cities are part of a civilian air force operated by the FBI and obscured behind fictitious companies, The Associated Press has learned.
View ArticleAfter hacking, government workers warned of potential fraud
An immense hack of millions of government personnel files is being treated as the work of foreign spies who could use the information to fake their way into more-secure computers and plunder U.S. secrets.
View ArticleStolen data finder could reduce harm for companies
Business owners don't need IT skills to understand that data breaches are serious. Certainly big names in retail and health care know by experience that such breaches have serious after-effects....
View ArticleOfficials: Second hack exposed military and intel data
Hackers linked to China have gained access to the sensitive background information submitted by intelligence and military personnel for security clearances, U.S. officials said Friday, describing a...
View ArticleEmoji-only passcode system aims to make online banking safer
UK-based Intelligent Environments is a company that seeks "To lead the way financial services interact in the digital world," and has come up with an alternative to PIN codes for online banking. PINs...
View ArticleMasterCard pay by face verification to start as pilot program
MasterCard's Ajay Bhalla, President, Enterprise Safety and Security, has something to argue against sole reliance on passwords: "We want to identify people for who they are, not what they remember."
View ArticleItalian surveillance company appears to get hacked
An Italian surveillance company known for selling malicious software used by police bodies and spy agencies appears to have succumbed to a damaging cyberattack that sent documents and invoices...
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