Symantec, which patched the eight security flaws discovered said: “Fixes are currently in place, and updates are now available for customers to install.” The vulnerabilities were, fortunately for millions of computer users worldwide, fixed before the team from Google’s Project

A hacker who broke into more than 30 iCloud accounts has pleaded guilty for his role in the “Celebgate” leak of 2014. Edward Majerczyk faces up to five years in prison for illegally obtaining private celebrity photos. Majerczyk, 28, worked alongside Ryan

Under a bench at Sang-Young Lee’s lab is an ordinary, somewhat beat-up ink-jet printer he has modified so that it spits out electronic circuits and a type of energy storage device called a supercapacitor. To make it work, Lee empties

I don’t know how to be more secure to overcome DDoS attacks. It seems that I can secure myself more rather than securing my online accounts or so called websites. I was inspired by a word, “Don’t be wise in

If a computer has a connection to the internet means no warrant is required for the US government to hack it, a Virginia court has ruled. The judge angered privacy campaigners by reasoning that since no connected computer “is immune from invasion”, no user

The hacking collective Lizard Squad isn’t relying solely on masses of compromised PCs to cause some grief online. Security researchers at Arbor Networks have discovered that the outfit compromised several thousand closed-circuit cameras and webcams to create a botnet that it

Security company OurMine has hacked yet another high profile Twitter account, this time successfully infiltrating the account of Vox Media Editor-in-Chief Ezra Klein. OurMine has been responsible for the hacking of multiple celebrity Twitter accounts following the release of approximately

We may have thought that Android is just as safe as the iPhone when it comes to encryption, but it looks like Google’s Android operating system has a critical flaw that can be exploited to decrypt a device. Even worse, while

The Las Vegas-based Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (HRHC) reported on Monday it encountered one data-hack when it detected a point-of-sale malware on its PC-network. The casino themed as ‘Rock and Roll’ started investigation following receipt of reports about spurious

A message seeming to come from a Facebook friend was instead a source of malware that ensnared 10,000 users, according to The Philippine Star. The infection was detected by researchers at Kaspersky Lab, who determined that compromised devices hijacked Facebook

A Chinese advertising company is responsible for two of the biggest waves of malware for both the Android and iOS ecosystems, a recent Check Point report reveals. Yingmob, an advertising company based in Chongqing, China, is supposedly the group behind

NEW DELHI: Gal Beniamini, a leading security expert, and a member of Qualcomm’s Product Security Hall of Fame has reportedly suggested customers to only buy Nexus or Samsung devices. This is because nearly 57% of smartphones in the Android ecosystem

A court in Brazil on Thursday blocked 19.5m reals ($6.07m) of Facebook’s money after its WhatsApp messaging service failed to turn over messages sought in a drugs case – despite the fact that the company has no access to its

The popular LINE messaging app now comes with end-to-end encryption switched on by default. LINE announced the decision to enable ‘Letter Sealing’ by default a few days ago and now urges users to upgrade their apps to the latest version

If you have an Android device running 5.0 (Lollipop) or later, and powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, then you should know that a security researcher demonstrated how to crack the full-disk encryption (FDE) with brute-force attacks; the fix is

Android malware is a serious issue that affects millions of people, no matter what you hear from Google. It’s one of the reasons the iPhone is still better than Android after all these years. We recently learned about a new type of malicious