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Shifting the burden: Long-term magnifying consequences
2019-01-07 07:00

Computer geeks love their acronyms. Here’s one more: TANSTAAFL. There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. No, I’m not talking about the grilled Alaskan salmon meal you got while playing on your...

German IT Security Agency Defends Response in Hacking Case
2019-01-07 06:59

Germany’s IT security agency on Saturday defended its response to the leaking of hundreds of politicians’ private information, after lawmakers accused it of failing to inform them quickly enough. read more

US Gadget Love Forecast to Grow Despite Trust Issues
2019-01-07 06:47

The US tech industry is weathering a crisis of confidence over data protection and a difficult geopolitical situation, with record sales expected in 2019, organizers of the Consumer Electronics...

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January 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Partly cloudy followed by heavy fog around Java
2019-01-07 06:45

2018 ended with a bit of excitement. Shortly after November Patch Tuesday we saw a pair of Flash Player zero-days (November 20 and December 5), which were followed by just about everything...

The average PC gamer has experienced almost 5 cyberattacks due to poor security habits
2019-01-07 06:30

McAfee has released results from its survey, Game Over: The Future of Gaming Security, finding that while gamers profess to exhibit good cybersecurity habits there’s still work to do. The survey...

The attack surface is growing faster than it has at any other point in the history of technology
2019-01-07 06:15

Avast launched its annual Threat Landscape Report, detailing the biggest security trends facing consumers in 2019 as collected by the Avast Threat Labs team. Some of the key security trends that...

Security analytics to reach $12 billion by 2024
2019-01-07 06:00

Amid a maelstrom of cybersecurity threats and rampant hacking attempts that leverage the power of the IoT against itself, organizations are forced to realize that they are on the losing side of...

LA Times knocked out, HackerOne slips up and - amazingly - router security still sucks
2019-01-05 13:01

Plus, London Gatwick drone comedy quiets down Welcome to 2019, just a few days into the year and we already have Chromecast chaos, Skype backdoors, and a Weather Channel privacy suit.…

Town of Salem Data Breach Exposes 7.6 Million Gamers' Accounts
2019-01-05 09:48

A massive data breach at the popular online role-playing game 'Town of Salem' has reportedly impacted more than 7.6 million players, the game owner BlankMediaGames (BMG) confirmed Wednesday on its...

New side-channel leak: Boffins bash operating system page caches until they spill secrets
2019-01-05 01:30

Novel data-siphoning attack is hardware agnostic Some of the computer security boffins who revealed last year's data-leaking speculative-execution holes have identified yet another side-channel...