Let’s Encrypt, an organization set up to encourage broader use of encryption on the Web, has distributed 1 million free digital certificates in just three months. The digital certificates cover 2.5 million domains, most of which had never implemented SSL/TLS

Apple’s fight with the FBI is one of the most important stories in tech today, as its outcome will have major implications for consumer privacy and safety. But while the FBI is essentially asking Apple to build a backdoor into iOS

Security and convenience don’t often go together very well – if you have too much convenience, you probably don’t have enough security. Fingerprint authentication on smartphones supposedly gives you both. You have the security of locking your device to keep thieves from

(CNN)South Korea’s spy agency says North Korea has hacked dozens of top government officials’ smartphones over the past couple of weeks. The National Intelligence Service, or NIS, says Pyongyang “has been implanting malicious codes by sending enticing text messages” from

Home Depot says it’s willing to pay as much as $19.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by shoppers affected by a massive security breach that exposed credit card information belonging to 56 million customers. The home-improvement retailer’s offer

CONWAY, SC (WBTW) – Horry County Schools paid nearly $10,000 to hackers who attacked the district’s network, district spokesperson Teal Harding confirmed on Monday. The hackers locked files across the district’s network in February and required a ransom to unlock

Publishing company Mansueto Ventures was targeted by internet criminals in an email scam similar to those used against companies such as Snapchat and Seagate. Mansueto Ventures, which publishes Fast Company and Inc., has not revealed specific information about the attack in

The U.S. Department of Justice has appealed an order by a court in New York that turned down its request that Apple should be compelled to extract data from the iPhone 5s of an alleged drug dealer. The case in

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has the plan to boost their internal and network security by announcing what it calls “the first cyber Bug Bounty Program in the history of the federal government,” officially inviting hackers to take

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – RSA Conference 2016 – Pirates used hacked information from a global shipping company’s servers to target and capture cargo ships on the high seas, and a water utility’s valves and ducts were hijacked: these are some

Verizon Wireless will pay $1.35 million to settle a privacy case with the federal government over the cell provider’s use of “supercookies.” The US’ largest cell provider’s with more than 140 million users will also be subject to a three-year

Apple has yet to patch a series of bypass vulnerabilities in iOS that could enable an attacker to sidestep the passcode authorization screen on iPhones and iPads running iOS 9.0, 9.1, and the most recent build of the mobile operating system,

File hosting service Dropbox has reached 500 million global users in its first eight years of operation. Although based in San Francisco, Dropbox said its most recent 100 million users came from all over the world. With 75 percent of

Nearly one quarter of all the servers running in Microsoft’s Azure cloud service are powered by the open source operating system Linux. But you can’t actually run much Microsoft software on those Linux servers. That’s about to change. Companies will

Hacking Facebook is one of the most sought queries on Google search because a lot of Facebook accounts are valuable. So much so that security researchers spend their valuable time and resources to hunt for vulnerabilities in Facebook in search