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A new strain of malware is designed to spread malware on either Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows, depending on where it’s opened.

Google said half of Android devices are unpatched and that percentage of potentially harmful apps on phones installed from all sources rose in 2016.

Bruce Schneier and Orin Kerr have written a paper that explains the technological and legal issues associated with six encryption workarounds available to law enforcement.

Jigsaw and Google said they would offer a free suite of security tools aimed at securing political elections.

A spam campaign called Blank Slate is spreading Cerber ransomware and abusing hosting providers to register new domains as soon as they're taken down.

Researchers at ERPScan today disclosed details and a proof-of-concept exploit for a SAP GUI remote code execution vulnerability patched last week.

LastPass has reportedly fixed one of three bugs in the password manager discovered by Google research Tavis Ormandy in the last week.

A critical vulnerability in Moodle, an open source system deployed across hundreds of thousands of universities, could expose the server to compromise.

A severe vulnerability has been disclosed in libpurple, the library used in the development of a number of popular instant messaging clients, including Adium for the macOS platform.

Since January, a number of ransomware families are sharing a common infrastructure with different techniques allowing the malware to hide from detection systems.