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We should all be so lucky to enjoy our work as much as Ken Munro does. Generally attracted by research that “looks fun” and particularly interested in probing the security of technologies that...

Two University of North Carolina professors say popular websites like Google and Facebook must share password data from their users to eliminate password reuse.

Researchers have discovered links between several cyber espionage groups believed to be sponsored by the Chinese government and found that at least some of them may be working from the Xicheng...

Security tool can be gamed to let any old riffraff into data A vulnerability in Oracle Access Manager is leaving the security tool leaning more towards "access" than "manager".…

Vulnerable in-vehicle infotainment systems have left some Volkswagen cars open to remote hacking, researchers warn.

Dr Aleksandr Kogan, the academic behind the personality quiz app that harvested Facebook information of 80+ million people, has also had access to a random sample of public tweets posted during a...

Sofacy’s First-Stage Malware Zebrocy Analyzed ESET security researchers have taken a deep dive into one of the tools heavily used by the Russian threat actor Sofacy over the past couple of years. read more

Amazon's Alexa cloud-based virtual assistant for Amazon Echo can be abused to eavesdrop on users, Checkmarx security researchers have discovered. read more

Researchers at Check Point and CyberInt, have discovered a new generation of phishing kit that is readily available on the Dark Web. A posting on the Dark Net that advertises the [A]pache phishing...

Researchers discovered a flaw in Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant that enabled them to eavesdrop on consumers with smart devices – and automatically transcribe every word said.