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A Kentucky man shot down a drone that was hovering in his backyard: "It was just right there," he told Ars. "It was hovering, I would never have shot it if it was flying. When he came down with a...

Security researchers Xeno Kovah and Trammell Hudson have discovered several flaws in the firmware installed on Apple computers, and have created a worm that can silently infect them and change the fir...


At Black Hat USA 2015, Data Theorem and Yahoo! will be unveiling TrustKi, a new, open source security toolkit that helps developers easily include complex mobile security functionality, known as SSL p...

Attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the latest version of Apple's OS. The bug's existence has been publicly revealed last month by Security resear...

A large-scale malvertising attack abusing Yahoo’s ad network has been hitting visitors of the Internet giant's many popular and heavy-traffic sites for nearly a week. Started on July 28th, the camp...

Whitewood Encryption Systems has created Entropy Engine, a cost-effective, quantum-powered random number generator. The Entropy Engine employs quantum mechanics to solve the problem of entropy gene...

The application development process is rampant with security risks due to current business pressures, according to new research released at Black Hat USA 2015 by Prevoty. From competing busine...

RiskIQ announced at Black Hat USA 2015 its latest findings on the prevalence of malvertising across the nearly two billion publisher pages and 10 million mobile apps it monitors per day. In the fir...