Yesterday, Reuters reported that tens of millions of email addresses and account passwords were stolen in an apparent data breach — but as is often the case, there’s more to this story than meets the eye. According toMotherboard, which spoke

The Romanian hacker who first exposed Hillary Clinton’s private email address is making a bombshell new claim — that he also gained access to the former Secretary of State’s “completely unsecured” server. “It was like an open orchid on the

It’s been almost a month since, right on the heels of the Apple vs FBI showdown, WhatsApp added fresh fuel to the already hot encryption debate when it announced it was enabling end-to-end encryption for all of its 1 billion

It may be time to update the password for your email. Usernames and passwords for more than 250 million stolen Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and other accounts are being swapped around in Russia’s criminal underworld, according to Reuters. These stolen

Just over a month ago, an unusual security announcement went out. Not the disclosure of a vulnerability itself, but rather that a vulnerability was going to be disclosed in the near future. Details were few — we were told this vulnerability

WASHINGTON  The scandal triggered by the Panama Papers leak of information on how and where the world’s wealthy stash funds to avoid detection or taxes underscored many countries’ vulnerabilities, President Juan Carlos Varela said Tuesday. Speaking at the State Department

Palo Alto Networks researchers Tomer Bar and Simon Conant spotted an Iranian malware family, dubbed Infy, which has targeted governments, businesses, and Iranian citizens for nearly a decade. Researchers said in a May 2 Palo Alto Networks report the malware family had been used in attacks

Evolving from classic “spray and pray” tactics, criminal outfits are increasingly distributing “designer” spam and malware, customized to optimally target victims in specific geographic regions, according to new research from Sophos‘ research division, SophosLabs. In a press release and blog

A rogue advertiser abused the Taggify self-serve ad platform to inject malware-installing code into browsers visiting the websites of two US TV stations. It was a textbook malvertising attack: to infect victims’ PCs, the dodgy ads used the Angler Exploit

A split seems to have emerged in the Linux-router-OS community, with a breakaway group splitting from OpenWRT. OpenWRT is the chief open router firmware implementation, but it has run into headwinds of late. For example, downtime for the group’s earlier

Cisco has released three security patches to address flaws in its TelePresence, FirePower and Adaptive Security Appliance lines. The May bundle includes one patch classified by Cisco as “critical” and two more labeled “high” risks. In total, the updates remedy

Email services including Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail have fallen victim to a hack, exposing usernames and passwords for millions of users. According to Reuters, a huge data breach consisting of some 273.3 million online accounts has been reported by