Security News > 2015 > November

Cryptowall 4 (although the number is not mentioned in the new, changed ransom note) is not drastically different from version 3. According to malware researcher Nathan Scott, it uses the same encrypti...

Investigating some of the latest Internet-of-Things (IoT) products, Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered serious threats to the connected home. These include a coffeemaker that exposes the homeow...

As part of a major research effort, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) unveiled cumulative data from their online survey of more than 100,000 Americans about their use of, and ...

Bitglass conducted an survey of nearly 100 IT leaders attending the Gartner Symposium IT Expo in Orlando, Fla. to better understand their top challenges for 2016 and how they plan to address them. ...

Julia Angwin's daughter is selling diceware passwords by mail....

The latest Cryptowall ransomware update makes it harder to recover encrypted files, and also mocks the victim in a revamped ransom note.

Mozilla has pushed a feature in Firefox live that allows Firefox web browsers to block certain page elements while browsing privately.

The Going Dark encryption debate resurfaced at the Advanced Cyber Security Center annual conference, and the government's stance hasn't changed much.

In the underground cybercrime economy, many players have specialized in one or two skills and services. It should come as no surprise, then, that some have become experts at getting digital certif...

Lookout researchers have discovered some 20,000 apps that secretly root users' phone and install themselves as system applications, which makes them able to access information on the device they usual...