Security News

An installer purporting to be Microsoft Security Essentials is malware that can lead to a support call scam.

Researchers have demonstrated how the PC-based Rowhammer attack also works against Android devices.

Ten percent of the 550,000 IoT nodes in the Mirai botnet are involved in ongoing DDoS attacks against DNS provider Dyn and others.

Martin Thomson, a Principle Engineer at Mozilla confirmed TLS 1.3 will be turned on by default in Firefox 52.

A privilege escalation vulnerability, nicknamed Dirty Cow and present in Linux since 2007, has been used in public attacks against web-facing Linux servers.

The dangers of Skyping and typing, the fingerprint warrant story, hiding credit card numbers in images, and more are discussed.

DNS providers Dyn suffered a DDoS attack this morning that affected many of its major customers including Twitter, Spotify, Github and others.

A phishing campaign aimed at Apple users in China that relies heavily on typosquatting has resurfaced.

Microsoft malware researchers say Locky ransomware authors are changing tactics again to evade detection.

Yahoo wrote DNI James Clapper asking the government to confirm and declassify an order to scan email for intelligence surveillance purposes.