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Malicious actors can abuse GitHub and other services that host Git repositories for stealthy attacks aimed at software developers, experts showed recently at the Black Hat security conference in...

From past few years, spammers and cyber criminals were buying web extensions from their developers and then updating them without informing their users to inject bulk advertisements into every...

An attacker has compromised the Chrome Web Store account of German developer team a9t9 software, and has equipped their Copyfish Chrome extension with ad/spam injection capabilities....

Antivirus firm Avast announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Piriform, a London, UK-based company that develops the popular cleaning and optimization tool CCleaner. read more

Notorious Banking Trojan Tied to 11 Million Infections, $500 Million in LossesRussian citizen Mark Vartanyan, aka "Kolypto," has been sentenced to serve five years in U.S. prison after he pleaded...

Evidence ties people behind massive malware attack to mysterious Shadow Brokers group.

Websites developed by “budget” developers, without portfolios or references, tend to be plagued with critical security failures, research has shown. For this project, the Tripwire Vulnerability...

Werner Koch and his team of GnuPG developers are asking for funding for the continued development of the popular free email and data encryption software. What is GnuPG, and why you should care...

Symantec has been tracking the activities of a “lone wolf” hacker who has apparently developed a sophisticated piece of malware that he has used to access the systems of at least two major...
