Hacking is a two way street. The core developers behind Ethereum, which supports a cryptocurrency similar to bitcoin, launched an assault on an anonymous hacker that stole at least $89 million through its network. Alex Van Der Sande, lead designer

BOSTON, June 21, 2016 — Mustbin, an encrypted cloud storage and messaging platform, announced today that it has been granted a seminal security and privacy patent for secure cloud storage and communications, the first in the industry. U.S. Patent No.

MOOTED LEGAL CHANGES in Russia may apply a boot to the face of open and private chat messaging services and create a very cold winter for communications. Reports from the country said that plans to require backdoors in otherwise encrypted

Russia may step up its Internet controls, if new anti-terrorism legislation passes to enable further online surveillance measures. The country already has a vast and deeply intrusive mechanism called SORM, that allows the authorities to monitor online communications. Bloggers and

Cyber criminals have been reviving attacks using Windows macros since past few years utilizing Office commands that are automatically issued for spreading malware. It is certain that hackers will keep on utilizing macros, till of course when the methodology wouldn’t

For any business that owns and relies on industrial machines, the cybersecurity landscape recently got a little more troubling thanks to the discovery of a new family of malware that is designed to wreak havoc on those devices. Security experts

A recently discovered mobile malware program is giving Android devices a mind of their own, causing them to use the messaging service Google Talk to secretly and repeatedly place outgoing calls to mysterious phone numbers approximately every two minutes. According to

Android users beware: a new type of malware has been found in legitimate-looking apps that can “root” your phone and secretly install unwanted programs. The malware, dubbed Godless, has been found lurking on app stores including Google Play, and it

Companies should be fined if they fail to guard against cyber attacks, MPs have recommended in the wake of last year’s TalkTalk hack. The report was published as it was revealed TalkTalk boss, Baroness Dido Harding, saw her pay rise

Computer hacking has become an epidemic. That’s why at the State University of New York, Sarah Laszlo, who teaches psychology, is developing a hack-proof security system. Her eureka moment came as she was using a brain wave detector to examine

Chinese government cyberespionage has decreased sharply since mid-2014, an apparent response to widespread exposure of the activity, U.S. indictments and the threat of economic sanctions last summer, according to a new report by FireEye, a cybersecurity firm. “The landscape we

One lone hacker has tried to take credit for the recent breach of the Democratic National Committee, calling it “easy.” But some security researchers aren’t convinced. On Monday, security company Fidelis Cybersecurity came forward, and agreed that expert hacking groups

Security researchers have discovered a malicious Android trojan codenamed Android/Trojan.Pawost that’s packed inside a stopwatch app, but uses Google Talk to initiate phone calls to unregistered numbers. Pawost begins its malicious behavior after users install it. As soon as this

I spent last week in London at the InfoSec conference, where it wasn’t only the vendors talking up security scares, but the attendees I spoke with in the aisles and meeting rooms. Almost all of them had some personal experience

Trend Micro security researchers have uncovered a new malware family called Mangit (BKDR_MANGIT.SM), linked to the Brazilian hacking underground, where it’s peddled as a Banking-Trojan-as-a-Service offering. Researchers say the malware is new and seems to be coded from the ground-up

The number of network infections generated by some of the most prolific forms of malware — such as Locky, Dridex, and Angler — has suddenly declined. Instances of malware and ransomware infection have risen massively this year, but cybersecurity researchers