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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.

A criminal complaint alleges that a West Virginia man disguised the plastic components as wall hangers and sold hundreds of them online.

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

Zoom’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) has arrived, letting both free and paid users secure their meetings so that only participants, not Zoom or anyone else, can access their content. Zoom says E2EE is supported across its Mac, PC, iOS, and Android apps, as well as Zoom Rooms, but not its web client or third-party clients that use the Zoom SDK.

At the end of September, amidst its usual flurry of fall hardware announcements, Amazon debuted two especially futuristic products within five days of each other. The first is a small autonomous surveillance drone, Ring Always Home Cam, that waits patiently inside a charging dock to eventually rise up and fly around your house, checking whether you left the stove on or investigating potential burglaries.

Up to a third of existing Android smartphones will start getting error messages from websites secured by Let's Encrypt.

Ama Russell and Evamelo Oleita had never been to a protest before June. But as demonstrations against systemic racism and police brutality began to spread across the U.S. earlier this year, the two 17 year-olds from Michigan, both of whom are Black, were inspired to organize one of their own.

More than one billion Android devices globally are no longer supported by operating system security updates, leaving them potentially exposed to a slew of harmful cyberattacks and their users at risk of being hacked, a study by the UK consumer watchdog Which? has found. By crunching data from Google, Which? calculated that two in every five (40%) of Android devices are currently no longer receiving “vital security updates” from Google, putting them in a high risk category in terms of their susceptibility to malware and other security flaws.

Big Tech is famous for its nefarious data collection methods. But, for whatever reason, Facebook-owned WhatsApp has flown relatively under the radar. With 2 billion monthly users, the app is the world's most popular messenger service. Since it implemented end-to-end encryption in 2016, people mostly trust that the content of their WhatsApp messages is secure – which seems to be true. But that shouldn’t be our only consideration when it comes to choosing a messenger platform.

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

The U.S. and the Taliban have struck a deal that paves the way for eventual peace in Afghanistan. U.S. Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad and the head of the militant Islamist group, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, signed the potentially historic agreement Saturday in Doha, Qatar, where the two sides spent months hashing out its details.

Fingerprint-based authentication is fine for most people, but it's hardly foolproof.

NordVPN, a leading VPN company, is adopting the new open-source WireGuard virtual private network technology across its product line.

The private information of some 4.5 million Israeli citizens, including biometric facial features, stored in the Transportation Ministry database for drivers licenses and a private database for smart biometric bus cards, is not getting the highest-level encryption and security to prevent data breaches or exploit attempts, found a report by the State Comptroller, writes the Jerusalem Post.

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

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

I still love my standalone desktops. But with the coronavirus pandemic forcing more people to work from home, it's becoming clear, we're doing a lousy job of protecting our PCs. The only real answer: Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS).

Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt has warned that Huawei poses a national security threat and claims “there’s no question” information from its routers have “ultimately ended up” in the hands of the Chinese government. Mr Schmidt, current chair to the Defence Innovation Advisory board for the Pentagon, said the telecoms firm had engaged in acts vthat are not acceptable in national security.”