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An independent researcher earned a $30,000 bug bounty after discovering a weakness in the mobile recovery process.

Watch out! Facebook-owned photo-sharing service has recently patched a critical vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to compromise any Instagram account without requiring any interaction...

Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange said Friday it had halted all services after losing cryptocurrency worth more than $32 million in the latest apparent hack involving virtual money. read more

Proposed legislation would force Homeland Security to sound alarm on voting system intrusions Two US lawmakers are pushing a bipartisan bill that would force the Department of Homeland Security...

Technically not yet A Thing but there's a war of words over it The UK's Information Commissioner's Office wants to fine Marriott Hotels £99m over its loss of 383 million customer booking records...

Company Says Ubuntu Linux Source Code Remains SafeCanonical Ltd., a British company that offers commercial support and services for the popular Ubuntu Linux open source operating system, is...

Hackers just infiltrated virtual reality, enabling them to manipulate users' immersive 3D worlds.

Vulnerabilities Found in APIs Controlling Croatia-Based Zipato's IoT DevicesFindings from researchers who hacked Croatia-based vendor Zipato's smart hub controllers, which can manage networked...

But just imagine Stuxnet: Consumer Edition Comment Iran claims that recent surges in electricity demand, leading to blackouts and brownouts, were caused by too many cryptocurrency miners’...

If you use VLC media player on your computer and haven't updated it recently, don't you even dare to play any untrusted, randomly downloaded video file on it. Doing so could allow hackers to...