Security News

Researchers explore real-world deployment of connected medical devices
2018-03-05 13:15

ZingBox researchers detected, identified and analyzed the behavior of medical devices deployed in more than 50 hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare locations. Researchers looked at a wide...

Researchers Propose Improved Private Web Browsing System
2018-02-26 15:21

A group of researchers from MIT and Harvard have presented a new system designed to make private browsing even more private.  read more

Google Researcher Finds Critical Flaws in uTorrent Apps
2018-02-21 12:23

Google researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered several critical vulnerabilities in the classic and web-based versions of BitTorrent’s uTorrent application. Patches have been released, but it appears...

Researchers Find New Twists In ‘Olympic Destroyer’ Malware
2018-02-14 19:42

Researchers now believe attackers may have had prior access to networks and that malware was more sophisticated than originally believed.

‘Olympic Destroyer’ Malware Behind Winter Olympics Cyberattack, Researchers Say
2018-02-12 22:53

The malware's sole purpose was to take down systems, not steal data, Cisco Talos researchers say.

Gojdue Variant Eludes Microsoft, Google Cloud Protection, Researchers Say
2018-02-08 15:50

Researchers have identified a new ransomware strain that went undetected by built-in malware protection used by cloud heavyweights Microsoft and Google as recently as January.

Hotspot Shield Vulnerability Could Reveal ‘Juicy’ Info About Users, Researcher Claims
2018-02-07 18:00

Hotspot Shield has been downloaded more than 500 million times, according to its creator AnchorFree.

Researcher Claims Hotspot Shield VPN Service Exposes You on the Internet
2018-02-07 13:18

Virtual Private Network (VPN) is one of the best solutions you can have to protect your privacy and data on the Internet, but you should be more vigilant while choosing a VPN service which truly...

Windows 10 Ransomware Protection Easily Bypassed, Researcher Says
2018-02-06 15:36

It’s rather trivial to bypass the anti-ransomware feature that Microsoft introduced in its Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, a security researcher claims.  read more