Security News

WikiLeaks Reveals CIA's Grasshopper Windows Hacking Framework (The Hackers News)
2017-04-07 09:52

As part of its Vault 7 series of leaked documents, whistleblowing website WikiLeaks today released a new cache of 27 documents allegedly belonged to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Named...

Windows 10 Creators Update will come with clearer privacy options (Help Net Security)
2017-04-06 19:37

Nearly two years after Microsoft released Windows 10, the company has finally revealed what data it collects from users. The revelation comes as part of a recent change of the company’s privacy...

Microsoft Finally Reveals What Data Windows 10 Collects From Your PC (The Hackers News)
2017-04-06 02:43

Since the launch of Windows 10, there has been widespread concern about its data collection practices, mostly because Microsoft has been very secretive about the telemetry data it collects. Now,...

Android Beats Windows to Become World's Most Popular Operating System (The Hackers News)
2017-04-03 10:37

It's an impressive milestone for Google — For the first time in decades, Android has been crowned as the world's most popular operating system in terms of Internet usage, knocking Microsoft...

Fileless UAC Bypass Uses Windows Backup and Restore Utility (Threatpost)
2017-03-27 16:13

Researcher Matt Nelson disclosed another Windows UAC bypass, this one abusing the sdclt.exe backup and restore utility to execute a payload without triggering an alert.