Security News

New variants of the Triada and Horde mobile malware have emerged with capabilities that evade native security on Android devices.

Taiwanese electronics company Acer sent letters to customers indicating that some of their financial information - credit card data included – may have been accessed over the last year.

At last week's Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced some security upgrades around Gatekeeper and a new filesystem that includes native support for encryption. Mac hacker Patrick...

Google announced that it paid just north of half a million dollars to security researchers as part of the first year of its Android Security Rewards program.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including a password issue at Github, the xDedic marketplace, and another Flash zero day.

Password reuse strikes GitHub users, some of whom will have to reset their credentials after unauthorized attempts were made to access a large number of GitHub accounts.

The ScarCruft APT gang has made use of a Flash zero day patched Thursday by Adobe to attack more than two dozen high-profile targets in Russia and Asia primarily.

The House voted Thursday to block passage of an amendment aimed to reign in U.S. domestic mass surveillance by the NSA and protect strong encryption standards citing Sunday's Orlando tragedy.

Privacy experts are arguing this week the FBI isn't doing enough to safeguard the treasure trove of facial recognition photos in its possession.

The xDedic market provides hackers with an affordable place to buy access to hacked servers in order to quickly mount better attacks.