The federal government’s top cybersecurity agency issued its most urgent warning yet about a sophisticated and extensive computer breach, saying Thursday that it posed a “grave risk” to networks maintained by governments, utilities and the private sector and could be difficult to purge.

A French security researcher has accidentally discovered a zero-day vulnerability that impacts the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems while working on an update to a Windows security tool.

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Microsoft recommends using app-based authenticators and security keys instead.

This marks the first time a major Windows ransomware strain has been ported to Linux to aid hackers in their targeted intrusions.

Software firm’s director thought name using HTML would be ‘fun and playful’

Smart sex toy vulnerable to hacks, researchers say — which could expose users’ most sensitive bits (of data) to cybercriminals.

Satellite internet may be convenient but it's also easy to intercept

China is also growing more adept at targeting campaign workers. But contrary to Trump administration warnings, Beijing is mostly aiming at Biden campaign officials.

Academics: Only 82 of the 629 commercial cyber-security reports (13%) published in the last decade discuss a threat to civil society, with the rest focusing on cybercrime, nation-state hackers, economic espionage.

If you haven't been regularly deleting your voice history with Amazon's voice assistant, Alexa, you could have a good reason to start: a recently fixed vulnerability that would've exposed all your conversations with the smart speaker. On Thursday, researchers from cybersecurity firm Check Point released a report detailing security issues they discovered with Amazon's Alexa, which would've allowed a potential hacker to get a person's conversation logs with the smart speaker, as well as install skills on the device without the person knowing.

Not all 2FA is equal. Using SMS to get a code might not be "better than nothing" after all.

The now-patched vulnerability would have let hackers target Microsoft Office using Symbolic Link—a file type that hasn't been in common use in over 30 years.

One of the major security enhancements Apple has brought to its devices over the years is the Secure Enclave chip, which encrypts and protects all sensitive data stored on the devices.

When everything is measured in microseconds, nothing can be allowed to slow the action down, not even the security required to protect the data systems of the legendary William Racing team. "Every week or two the entire racing team locates to another track, and takes their mobile data center with them." And they have to keep it secure. Here's how they do it.

On Friday a large chunk of the internet went off the air when Cloudflare apparently fat-fingered a routing update and sent all of their global traffic to a single POP, vaporizing it almost instantly.

ThiefQuest or EvilQuest can grab passwords and credit card numbers.

Elections in five states have used or plan to use OmniBallot's online voting tech.

Many well-known and heavily used web sites are using a fraud protection script that port scans your local computer for remote access programs.

My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value," Bruce Schneier