Security News

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including privacy and Pokemon GO, a new MIT anonymity system, the Fiat Chrysler bug bounty program, and a patched printer spooler vulnerability.

Digital rights advocates are again pleading with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to reconsider standardizing DRM in Encrypted Media Extensions, a draft specification that would ultimately feed...

Cisco today released patches for two products, including one for a vulnerability rated high criticality in Cisco IOS XR for the Cisco Network Convergence System series routers.

Academics from the University of Florida and Villanova University developed a generic ransomware detector for Windows systems called CryptoDrop.

Ransomware selling for as little as $39 on the dark web have security experts concerned the low price coupled with its potency could trigger a wave of new ransomware victims.

Automaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is giving up to $1,500 to hackers who find bugs in its software.

A Congressional report accuses China of hacking the FDIC and the agency of covering up the attacks.

Developers with the open source content management framework Drupal patched a series of highly critical remote code execution bugs in three separate modules today. If exploited, the bugs could let...

Riffle, a new anonymity network concocted by MIT researchers, can guarantee anonymity among a large group of users, as long as there's one honest server.

Intel issued an important security patch Monday for a vulnerability that could allow hackers to execute arbitrary code on targeted systems running Windows 7.