Security News

An IEEE report exposes vulnerabilities in wearables such as fitness trackers, which are susceptible to a number of attacks.

Scott Erven set up 10 honeypots to illustrate how vulnerable medical devices can be.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook opposes a court order mandating that Apple help the FBI crack an iPhone belonging to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook.

Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso talks to HackerOne chief policy officer Katie Moussouris about the U.S. implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement rules and where things stand close to seven months...

A critical vulnerability in glibc, the GNU C library, affects all Linux machines and many web frameworks, opening the door to remote code execution.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap last week's Security Analyst Summit -- including lots of IoT and critical infrastructure talk, APTs like Metel and Poseidon, and more.

Mike Mimoso talks with Steve Adegbite, Chief Information Security Officer at ETRADE, about data integrity and some of the challenges he encounters when it comes to encrypting data and dealing with...

A new piece of crypto-ransomware called PadCrypt comes with a live chat feature that victims can use to interact with the attackers about ransom payments and other information.

VMware on Friday updated a security advisory after it discovered a patch issued in October for a remote code execution flaw in VMware vCenter Server was incomplete.

Researchers at Heimdal Security report public attacks against Android devices using the Mazar bot, which was advertised months ago in a Russian cybercrime forum.