Will teens be scared off by Snapchat hack? Probably not
Snapchat, a social media company with a popular photo-messaging app, has taken a blow with a recent hack affecting 4.6 million users.
Sharon Gaudin | 02 Jan | Read more
Snapchat, a social media company with a popular photo-messaging app, has taken a blow with a recent hack affecting 4.6 million users.
Sharon Gaudin | 02 Jan | Read more
The Cryptolocker Trojan is an evolution of "ransomware," not a revolutionary change from past criminal attempts to extort money from PC owners, a security expert said today.
Gregg Keizer | 19 Nov | Read more
Security researchers have uncovered two unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer which have been exploited by attackers in an unusual "watering hole" campaign launched from a U.S.-based website that specializes in domestic and international security policy.
Gregg Keizer | 11 Nov | Read more
Facebook and Microsoft are winning plaudits from security researchers for launching an initiative to offer bounties to bug hunters who discover and report vulnerabilities in widely used products.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 Nov | Read more
Microsoft on Monday expanded its $100,000 bounty program, and will accept reports of in-the-wild attacks that demonstrate new techniques of bypassing Windows' anti-exploit technologies.
Gregg Keizer | 05 Nov | Read more
The ongoing government shutdown could leave desktop and server systems in many federal agencies vulnerable to new threats disclosed Tuesday by Microsoft in its latest round of security updates.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 09 Oct | Read more
A Virginia Tech official Tuesday blamed human error for a data breach that may have exposed sensitive data on about 145,000 people who applied online for jobs at the school over the past 10 years.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 24 Sep | Read more
The Internet Storm Center on Saturday boosted its threat level to 'Yellow,' indicating a 'significant new threat' to Internet users from attacks exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in all versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
Gregg Keizer | 23 Sep | Read more
Microsoft yesterday acknowledged yet another problem with its Sept. 10 updates, confirming that one of those fixes broke Office 2010 Starter Edition by changing the file associations of already-created documents.
Gregg Keizer | 19 Sep | Read more
A group of between 50 and 100 professional hackers operating out of China has been systematically targeting businesses, military and government agencies around the world since at least 2009, security vendor Symantec said in a report released on Tuesday.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 17 Sep | Read more
Apple on Thursday updated OS X Mountain Lion to version 10.8.5, likely the final refresh of the 14-month-old operating system before the company supersedes it with OS X Mavericks.
Gregg Keizer | 13 Sep | Read more
HP TippingPoint's bug bounty program today said it will again sponsor a mobile-only hacking contest this fall, when it will put up $300,000 in prize money for researchers who demonstrate successful attacks against mobile services and browsers.
Gregg Keizer | 12 Sep | Read more
An Office 2013 non-security update, part of yesterday's massive Patch Tuesday, blanks the folder pane in Outlook 2013, the suite's email client, drawing complaints from users.
Gregg Keizer | 11 Sep | Read more
Microsoft today said it will ship 14 security updates next week to patch critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Office and SharePoint, its enterprise collaboration platform.
Gregg Keizer | 05 Sep | Read more
One way that owners of major websites can mitigate the risk of their domains being hijacked like The New York Times' site was on Tuesday is to apply what is known as a registry lock on the domain, security researchers say.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 29 Aug | Read more