Security News > 2017 > April

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the Web, Wins $1 Million Turing Award 2016 (The Hackers News)
2017-04-05 04:47

Sir Tim Berners-Lee — the inventor of the World Wide Web — has won this year's A.M. Turing Award, which is frequently described as the "Nobel Prize of Computing," by the Association for Computing...

Millions Of Smartphones Using Broadcom Wi-Fi Chip Can Be Hacked Over-the-Air (The Hackers News)
2017-04-05 03:36

Millions of smartphones and smart gadgets, including Apple iOS and many Android handsets from various manufacturers, equipped with Broadcom Wifi chips are vulnerable to over-the-air hijacking...

Update Your Apple Devices to iOS 10.3.1 to Avoid Being Hacked Over Wi-Fi (The Hackers News)
2017-04-05 03:23

Note: We have published a follow-up article with more technical details about this vulnerability which resides in Broadcom WiFi SoC equipped not only in Apple devices, but also in Android devices...