Security News > 2017 > January

This article discusses a giant squid attack on a schooner off the coast of Sri Lanka in 1874. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I...

Chrome users who have installed the latest Adobe security updates have also been unknowingly saddled with a browser extension (“Adobe Acrobat”) that can collect some of their operating environment...

Claims of a security hole in WhatsApp’s messenger app were shot down by WhatsApp, which called the allegations false.

Google has taken a big step toward simplifying public key lookups at Internet scale with the release to open source on Thursday of Key Transparency.

Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite has announced that it has suffered a data breach following an unauthorized access to an external web server. “The impacted server included a legacy...

Imagine that you are someone in the CIA, concerned about the future of America. You have this Russian dossier on Donald Trump, which you have some evidence might be true. The smartest thing you...

The Shadow Brokers, a group (?) of hackers that has made a big splash in August last year by leaking and offering for sale exploits supposedly stolen from the infamous Equation Group, has decided...

The news of the week is discussed, including the ShadowBrokers' farewell, GoDaddy's buggy domain validation issue, MongoDB ransoms, and the latest with St. Jude Medical.

If you unwrapped a shiny, new connected device this holiday season, it’s likely that you’re in the honeymoon stage, reaping many benefits from your new device. However, this story about a smart...

Denim Group enhances ThreadFix platform Denim Group, a leading independent application security firm, today announced the latest version of ThreadFix, the company’s application vulnerability...