Security News

Silent Circle patched a Blackphone vulnerability, closing an open socket that exposed the mobile device's modem to attack.

Cloud-based webhost Linode, still under a DDoS attack, reset customer passwords after a suspected breach.

Government officials in the Netherlands this week released a statement that actually calls for stronger encryption and rejects backdoors entirely.

Exploit acquisition company Zerodium announced it would pay up to $100,000 for heap isolation mitigation bypasses against Adobe Flash Player.

Comcast’s Xfinity Home Security System is vulnerable to attacks that interfere with its ability to detect and alert to home intrusions.

Researchers at Synacktiv have disclosed a vulnerability in the Cisco Jabber Client for various platforms that exposes devices to man-in-the-middle attacks.

Google patched a critical vulnerability in Mediaserver, one of five patched in today's monthly Android Nexus Security Bulletin.

The Tor Project announced last week that it plans on launching a bug bounty program this year to encourage security researchers and hackers to responsibly report issues they find in the software.

Researchers have uncovered a ransomware-as-a-service operation called Ransom32. The ransomware is believed to be the first written in JavaScript.

Computer security research and innovation took a beating in 2015. Some prep work in advance might help us cope next year. Here are six things to keep in mind.