Security News

Mozilla has rolled out a new version of its Firefox browser, an update that includes patches for four critical security vulnerabilities and several less-severe bugs. IN all, Firefox 39 patches 13...

FBI director James Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates testified before a Senate committee on how encryption is hampering law enforcement and national security efforts.

Dennis Fisher talks with Wendy Nather about her new role as the research director at R-CISC, the challenges of getting companies to share threat intelligence, how smaller retails can deal with...

Three exploit kits--Angler, Nuclear Pack and Neutrino--have already weaponized the Adobe Flash Player zero day found among the data stolen from Hacking Team.

UPDATE–It has been absolutely brutal week for Hacking Team. All of the company’s documents, internal communications, emails with customers, and invoices have been published, including its dealings...

Adobe is expected tomorrow to patch a Flash zero day vulnerability uncovered among the data stolen in the Hacking Team breach.

The Gunpoder Android malware has co-opted a Nintendo NES game emulator and hides inside the Airpush ad library, researchers at Palo Alto Networks said.

A prominent member of the EU parliament, who has been outspoken on security and privacy issues, on Tuesday submitted a written list of questions to the European Commission about the actions of...

Developers at Node.js over the weekend released a critical update to the runtime environment that addresses a bug that could be used to cause denial of service attacks.

Thirteen cryptography leaders and pioneers published a paper warning of the economic and social pitfalls associated with the government's desire for "exceptional access" to cryptographic keys.