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Report Maps Out Ten Major Geopolitical Risks That Businesses Will Face in 2019 read more

Construction cranes are vulnerable to hacking: In our research and vulnerability discoveries, we found that weaknesses in the controllers can be (easily) taken advantage of to move full-sized...

ACROS Security, the creators of 0patch, have released a micropatch for a recently revealed zero-day RCE flaw affecting Windows. About the vulnerability and the micropatch Security researcher John...

Location data extracted from the athletic hitman's Garmin GPS watch and TomTom sat nav led to his conviction in two gangland murders.

End-of-life followed 2018 fake Website certificate drama If you're still using TLS-SNI, stop: a year after a slip-up allowed miscreants to claim Let's Encrypt certificates for domains they didn't...

WhatsApp has capped the number of people you can forward messages to, after India was seized by rumour-inspired mob lynchings.

Record Privacy Fine Sends Strong Signal to Data-Processing Technology CompaniesFrance has hit Google with a 50 million euro ($57 million) fine for violating the EU's General Data Protection...

On 21 January 2019, the French National Data Protection Commission (CNIL) imposed a financial penalty of €50 million against Google, in accordance with the GDPR. This is the first time that the...

Japanese electronics and electrical equipment giant Mitsubishi Electric Corporation on Monday unveiled new technology designed to protect connected vehicles against cyber threats. read more

The Democratic National Committee has filed a civil complaint accusing Russia of trying to hack its computers as recently as November 2018.