Critical systems used by utility providers — industrial control systems (ICS) and SCADA— were never designed with security in mind. Attackers have picked up on this critical gap, and according to Threatpost, a new strain of ICS malware has now

Symantec engineer Dinesh Venkatesan says malware writers have one up on Google with the pillaging of a keystone trick that permits attacks on Android Marshmallow. The method was extracted from white hat proof-of-concept works published initially to show how malware

Microsoft’s search engine Bing will display more detailed warnings when users encounter potential phishing and malware sites. The company has announced it’s refining how it communicates potential threats in Bing results and to website operators using the Bing webmaster dashboard.

Facebook users this summer may have to make a choice: do they want extra privacy – or better artificial intelligence? In the coming months, according to three people close to the project, the social media company plans to release an

One of the many security methods available for protecting sensitive files and folders is through USB drive encryption. This way, you can take the secure devices with you and access the secret contents on any computer, as long as you

Proposed anti-encryption legislation known as “Burr-Feinstein,” filed in the wake of Apple’s legal showdown with the FBI, had such broad business ramifications that apparently common sense prevailed. According to a Reuters report, sources in Congress say the bill had trouble

At an event held during Apple’s fight with the FBI over whether it should help unlock a dead terrorist’s iPhone, CEO Tim Cook promised “We will not shrink” from the responsibility of protecting customer data —including from government overreach. Yet

The latest news only confirms the theory that Israeli firms are creating a position in the spying and surveillance industry with their ground-breaking and wide-ranging products. The latest news only confirms the theory that Israel is going places as far

HACKING LAWS ARE generally intended to punish, well, hacking—not the digital equivalent of destroying the office printer on the day you quit. But when IT administrator Michael Thomas deleted a collection of files before leaving his job at the auto

The Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV – UK’s best selling plug-in electric car – has become the latest car susceptible to hacking, after weaknesses in the car’s on-board Wi-Fi security allowed researchers to turn off security alarms. Security expert Ken Munro and his

The messages first appeared May 31, the Tuesday after Memorial Day. “DONALD TRUMP IS A SHAPE SHIFTING LIZARD!!” read one. “BERNIE FOR PRESIDENT,” appeared another. “WORK IS CANCELED — GO BACK HOME,” instructed a third. They were perplexing for East

There are several lessons to be learned from a data breach in which hackers gained access to Mark Zuckerberg’s social media accounts, but chief among them is probably this: Quit using the same password for multiple websites. It may be