Facebook has patched two vulnerabilities which affected approximately one million users of Instagram and left their accounts open to compromise. The social networking giant awarded $5,000 to Belgian security researcher Arne Swinnen, who discovered the security flaw, as part of

Imagine being given the keys to the internet. One minute you could be looking at a building’s air conditioning panel, a pharmacist’s inventory, and a Windows programmer’s console, and the next minute it’s a school administrator’s email inbox, and a

Yahoo has set a preliminary deadline of April 11 for bidders to submit their offers for the company’s core Web business and Asian assets. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that a letter has been sent to interested parties

Over 18 million user credentials have been found on a server of a Japanese company who let Chinese hackers use it in their attacks. Japanese police said that between June and November 2015, Chinese hackers used the server of Tokyo

The IRS’s computers remain vulnerable to hackers, the government’s top auditor said Monday, saying changes were still needed months after the agency suffered a breach that saw hundreds of thousands of taxpayers’ most sensitive information stolen. Passwords to key agency

Cybercriminals are redoubling efforts to steal payment card details from retailers before new defenses are put in place, according to FireEye. More than a dozen types of malware were found last year that target point-of-sale systems, the electronic cash registers

The indictment of seven Iranian hackers for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against financial institutions and hacking a dam was infuriating because it assigned blame to the wrong parties. The real culprit didn’t go unmentioned in the indictment announced by

Modern medicine in the Washington area reverted to 1960s-era paper systems when one of the largest hospital chains was crippled by a virus that shuttered its computers for patients and medical staff. The FBI said it was investigating the paralyzing

The notorious hacker and troll Andrew Auernheimer, also known as “Weev,” just proved that the Internet of Things can be abused to spread hateful propaganda. On Thursday, Auernheimer used two lines of code to scan the entire internet for insecure

A new zero-day vulnerability has been revealed in Apple’s OS X operating system that if exploited would allow hackers to steal sensitive data from Apple computers and servers. Revealed by security firm SentinelOne on Friday, the vulnerability is described as

As part of its #OpCanary operation against multinational corporations, members of the Anonymous hacking group have defaced the homepage of BCGold Corp., a Canadian-based company focused primarily on gold and copper mining. This isn’t a full-blown data breach, as the

CYBER warfare is the new battleground for world governments, and some foes are simply more formidable than others. A pair of hackers linked to the Syrian Electronic Army have been undone by using their personal Facebook and Gmail accounts. The

An Iranian charged with hacking the computer system that controlled a New York dam used a readily available Google search process to identify the vulnerable system, according to people familiar with the federal investigation. The process, known as “Google dorking,”

A new malware scam is posing as a speeding ticket email with a fake link that is said to load malicious code onto users’ computers. The emails, sent to at least few local residents in Tredyffrin, Pennsylvania, purport to come

The website of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is up and running again on Monday morning after being defaced Sunday night by Anonymous Philippines. In an interview on dzBB on Monday, Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista said they are expecting a