California teen faces 14 felony counts in phishing attack against school district
'It was like stealing candy from a baby.'
Security researchers discover critical flaw in PGP encryption that reveals plaintext
Recommendation to stop using PGP immediately
IBM bans the use of removable storage by employees
Cites high risk of financial and reputation damage
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday fixes zero-day exploit and privilege escalation vulnerability
VBScript engine allowed for arbitrary code execution
iOS 11.4 beta includes USB Restricted Mode to thwart devices like GrayKey
Security feature disables the Lightning port after seven days requiring password to re-enable
Equifax reveals full extent of last year's massive data breach
The credit reporting firm exposed millions of data points
Twitter could soon add encryption to direct messages
More than a year after Edward Snowden asked for it
Drive-by cryptominer found in hundreds of unpatched Drupal sites
Over 400 websites were affected
A Gamer's Guide to Not Getting Hacked
If you play video games, you are an ideal target to get wrecked by hackers. Gamers are very online. They log in to a lot of stuff. They have some money. They want to be better than other gamers. And they like to use the password "Dragon."
Apple memo indicates iPhone X is having some issues with Face ID
The problem is somehow inexplicably related to the rear-facing duel-lens camera
UK police force's facial recognition tech keeps misidentifying people as potential criminals
At one point it had a 92 percent false positive rate
Chinese government reportedly linked to decade-long series of hacks
Researchers say China is behind the Winnti Umbrella groups
UK watchdog orders Cambridge Analytica to hand over data on US citizen
Or face criminal charges
Twitter advises all 330 million users to change their passwords after bug stored them in plain text
No evidence of a breach or any misuse was found
Eight new Spectre variants affecting Intel chips discovered, four are "high risk"
Intel is already working on fixes
Kali Linux 2018.2 introduces new 4.15 kernel
This Kali Linux release is the first to include the Linux 4.15 kernel which includes fixes for Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. It also includes better support for AMD GPUs and Secure Encrypted Virtualization.
Cambridge Analytica to shut down, file for bankruptcy
The company has lost virtually all of its customers and can no longer pay its bills
Australia's Commonwealth Bank lost the banking records of 12 million customers
It happened in 2016 but they didn't bother to alert customers
Vulnerability in industrial software could have spelled disaster for critical infrastructure
Energy, water, nuclear, aviation and more industries narrowly avert crisis
BLU reaches settlement with FTC over privacy violation claims
The agency says BLU misled customers and put their data at risk
Amazon quietly launches five contract-free home security packages with free installation
Amazon's security packages begin at $240
Former Microsoft executive thinks he has a solution to the cryptography war with law enforcement
The PIN would be encrypted with a public key which can only be decrypted by the manufacturer's private key with a warrant
Operation Power OFF pulls the plug on 'DDoS-for-hire' website
Six admins of illegal service were arrested -- website and operational assets were seized
Cybersecurity researchers discover a way to use old key cards to access every room in a hotel
Your hotel room may not be as secure as you think
Hackers make off with $13,000 in Ethereum with a BGP/DNS one-two punch
Users who got taken ignored unsigned certificate warnings