In 2013, Google – one of the world’s pre-eminent tech companies – was hacked. It wasn’t its search engine that was attacked or its advertising platform or even its social network, Google+. Instead, it was a building. Two cybersecurity experts

MORE than $230 million will be spent boosting Australia’s defences against malicious cyber attacks by deploying an aggressive front line, including 100 newly recruited IT experts. For the first time, the four-year program, to be announced today by Prime Minister

The Russian creator of a computer program that enabled cybercriminals to infect millions of computers and drain bank accounts in multiple countries has been sentenced to serve nine and half years in a US federal prison. Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, 27,

Vulnerability management, defined as the cyclical practice of identifying, classifying, remediating and mitigating vulnerabilities, has been a basic element of the security posture in many global organizations. As the technology evolves by use of cloud, social and internet of things

Companies are willing to take their chances with attackers rather than update or patch wireless mice that are vulnerable to the MouseJack vulnerability, a recent study has revealed. Discovered this past February, MouseJack is a vulnerability in the protocol that

A new version of the NewPosThings PoS malware is using a clever technique to extract data from infected PoS terminals that almost no security solution monitors for malware activity. The NewPoSThings malware appeared many years ago, and for a long

A US congressman hacked as part of a demonstration showing that all you need is someone’s phone number to record their calls, texts and location, has called for an oversight committee investigation into the “significant vulnerability”. The security flaws within

Google is highly motivated to keep its Play Store and its customers’ phones free from harmful applications. In 2015 it scanned more than six billion apps every single day in search of malware. This involved scanning as many as 400 million devices

Malware authors have put together a strain of malicious code written entirely in Python, in what may turn out to be an experiment in creating a new type of cross-platform nasty. PWOBot is written entirely in Python, and compiled via

While the FBI abandoned its court case against Apple, the dispute of course still rumbles on in Congress, with hearings today and a proposed bill to force U.S. tech companies to break encrypted devices on demand. But at least one legal

Law enforcement officials, led by the FBI, have been wringing their hands about how strong encryption is making investigating and solving crimes tougher for almost two years now. So far, though, they haven’t really proposed any concrete, workable, solution to

A coalition, including the New York Police Department and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, launched an anti-encryption campaign along with a hashtag of#UnlockJustice because “crime victims are entitled to stronger protections than criminals.” “The debate over encryption is often referred to

U.S. law enforcement officials say they are being thwarted in solving dozens of criminal cases because they cannot access incriminating information that suspects have stored in encrypted files on their cellphones equipped with the latest technology. New York City Police

BlackBerry is the “most secure” mobile platform and will comply with “reasonable lawful access requests for customer data, the company’s boss has said. CEO John Chen made the statements clarifying the company’s position on encryption and aiding law enforcement following revelations by

In the past, we’ve told you how easy it is for a hacker to get a hold of your Netflix account. Just two months ago, we reported that pirates who refuse to pay for their streaming services are stealing yourNetflix logins and