Security News

US congresscritter's iPhone hacked (with, er, the cell networks' help) (The Register)
2016-04-19 00:02

How hackers eavesdropped on a US Congressman using only his phone number (ArsTechnica)
2016-04-18 23:47

US government is lousy at cybersecurity (Help Net Security)
2016-04-18 16:23

SecurityScorecard released its 2016 Government Cybersecurity Report, a comprehensive analysis that exposes alarming cybersecurity vulnerabilities across 600 local, state, and federal government...

US-CERT advice says Kill Quicktime for Windows, quickly (The Register)
2016-04-18 01:17

Microsoft sues US govt for right to tell users when their data is accessed by feds (Help Net Security)
2016-04-15 17:49

Microsoft has filed a new lawsuit against the US government, asking the court to permit them to alert their users when their online accounts and the data in them has been accessed by the...

Halfbreed trojan targets US banks (The Register)
2016-04-15 13:46

GozNym: The double-headed malware monster targeting US banks (ZDNet)
2016-04-15 11:31

US anti-encryption law is so 'braindead' it will outlaw file compression (The Register)
2016-04-14 23:01

US government weaker on cybersecurity than any other major industry (ZDNet)
2016-04-14 21:01

Why few US consumers penalize hacked companies? (Help Net Security)
2016-04-14 19:29

About a quarter of American adults reported that they were notified about their personal information being part of a data breach in the previous year, but only 11 percent of those who have ever...