Oracle has issued an emergency patch for its Java software after a string of high-profile hacking incidents at companies including Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft.
With social buttons, cookies, and watching our online purchases, advertisers are compiling a lot more information about you than you think.
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In an ironic twist this morning, CloudFlare, a company that speeds up and protects websites, suffered an outage that also took down the 785,000 sites using its service, including Wikileaks and 4Chan.
Security! Evernote says users' email addresses and passwords have been hacked. Here's what you need to do next.
Symantec and McAfee need to stop focusing on anti-virus software and start solving bigger problems or they run the risk of becoming obsolete, says KPCB's Ted Schlein.
DARPA grants a Carnegie Mellon professor $6 million to develop software that protects unmanned vehicles from attack.
Jimmy Wales sat down with VentureBeat to chat about his concern about censorship and state-sponsored attacks.
Connecting devices to the Internet will ultimately create a number of new and unexpected attack vectors. Lookout Mobile's chief technology officer set out to hack all the things.
The earliest version of Stuxnet we knew of dated back to 2009. Today, Symantec uncovered an earlier malware thought to be Stuxnet 0.5, created in 2005.
Big data is going to be the difference between us getting in front of attacks and getting bogged down trying to find our attackers, according to RSA's Arthur Coviello.
Remotium, a startup helping companies support bring-your-own-device policies, is proving that BYOD is top of mind for everyone. It won the most innovative startup award at the Innovation Sandbox competition at the computer security-oriented RSA conference in San Francisco today.…
Sorry jailbreakers: The latest iPhone update, iOS 6.1.3, could kill your lovely little hack.
The iOS 6.1 lockscreen hack from earlier this month isn't the only security vulnerability in Apple's latest mobile OS.
The BBC says attackers are disrupting its Chinese audience from receiving "free access to news and information" by jamming its English radio programming in China.
Microsoft is the latest company targeted by a sophisticated Java-based cyberattack that focuses on mobile app developers -- particularly those using Macs.
Yesterday, Zendesk was hacked and the personal information of an unknown number of Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr users was stolen. Last year, 12.6 million U.S adults were the victims of identity fraud.
A security breach at cloud-based customer support vendor Zendesk has exposed personal information including email addresses of Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr clients, the company said today in a blog post.
Jeep's Twitter account recently told the world that the iconic brand had been "sold to Cadillac." And Burger King's account started mysteriously promoting McDonalds. Two high-profile hacks in less than a week means, apparently, that Twitter had to take some action.
The People's Republic of China would like you to know that it had nothing to do with large scale cyberattacks against more than a hundred U.S. businesses, a government spokesperson stated in a news conference today.
