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Those innocent-looking apps in your smartphone can secretly spy on your communications or could allow hackers to do so. Hard to believe, but it’s true.Recently, Trustwave’s SpiderLabs analysts discovered a hidden backdoor in Skype for Apple’s macOS and Mac OS

Intelligence suggests Russia hacked the Republican National Committee but didn’t leak its data, a sign experts say is indicative of broader plans to sway US election results. The CIA is confident Russia’s goal was to help Trump win the 2016

Europol on Monday announced that 34 arrests were made as part of an operation targeting users of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber-attack tools. The operation was conducted between December 5 and 9, 2016, and received cooperation from law enforcement

Apple updated its mobile operating system iOS 10 on Monday to address a handful of security vulnerabilities, including two issues that could have led to arbitrary code execution. The update, iOS 10.2, fixes 12 vulnerabilities in total. Topping the list

ThyssenKrupp, one of the largest global steel manufacturers, has confirmed that it was hit by hackers and that sensitive trade secrets have been stolen as part of a “massive” cyberattack. The data breach, which was uncovered by the firm’s internal

A new strain of ransomware has been uncovered by security researchers that not only demands ransom from victims, but also offers the option of obtaining a free decryption key for their locked files. Dubbed Popcorn Time, the ransomware offers victims

Another day, another data breach.This time a popular video sharing platform DailyMotion has allegedly been hacked and tens of millions of users information have been stolen. Breach notification service LeakedSource announced the data breach on Monday after the company obtained

A 5-year-old serious privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Linux kernel that affects almost every distro of the Linux operating system, including Redhat, and Ubuntu. Over a month back, a nine-year-old privilege-escalation vulnerability, dubbed “Dirty COW,” was discovered in the

A former Expedia IT professional admitted on Monday to illegally trading on secrets he discovered by hacking his own company’s senior executives. Jonathan Ly stole passwords and infiltrated devices of Expedia’s (EXPE) chief financial officer and head of investor relations,

Barrett Brown, a journalist, formerly served as an unofficial spokesman for the hacktivist collective Anonymous, finally walked free from prison on Tuesday morning after serving more than four years behind bars. The Dallas-born investigative journalist was arrested in 2012 from

More than one million Google accounts have been compromised by a new authentication-theiving malware campaign called Gooligan, according to security company Check Point. In a blog post, Check Point said the malware steals authentication tokens from infected Android devices, which

Hackers stole 2 billion rubles (over $31m) from correspondent bank accounts at the Russian central bank in a cyberattack, the bank confirmed on Friday (2 November). According to central bank official Artem Sychev, the cybercriminals attempted to swipe around 5

Security researchers have discovered a flaw in both the iOS 10.1 and 10.1.1 update for Apple iPads, which allows potential hackers to bypass the activation lock feature in iOS that is supposed to prevent anyone from using the device marked

Hackers have launched a new wave of massive DDoS attacks, leveraging a new botnet, which could possibly rival the prolific Mirai botnet in the coming days. Security researchers have uncovered a new DDoS botnet, which was involved in a 10-day

Law enforcers and industry players have teamed up to take down infrastructure supporting at least 20 malware families, in the culmination of a four-year investigation. The Public Prosecutor’s Office Verden and the Lüneburg Police in Germany partnered with the United

Hackers allegedly behind a new IoT botnet created from the Mirai malware claimed responsibility for the attack. A cyberattack targeting Talk Talk and the Post Office recently saw some of the two firms’ customers briefly taken offline. Two hackers, allegedly