While you've been distracted by the holidays, coronavirus, and politics, the more we learn about the SolarWinds security fiasco, the worse it looks.

In 2017, hackers and security researchers highlighted long-standing vulnerabilities in Signaling System 7 (SS7, or Common Channel Signalling System 7 in the US), a series of protocols first built in 1975 to help connect phone carriers around the...

Shares in cyber security companies climbed rapidly on Friday as investors bet that a spate of cyber attack disclosures from entities such as Microsoft Corp would boost demand for security technology. Shares in FireEye Inc, Palo Alto Networks and Crowdstrike Holdings all raced ahead after Microsoft said on Thursday that it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by U.S. officials this week, adding the software giant to a growing list of attacked government agencies.

Firefox 85, to be released next month, in January 2021, will ship with a feature named Network Partitioning as a new form of anti-tracking protection.

Hackers who breached federal agency networks through software made by SolarWinds appear to have conducted a test run of their broad espionage campaign last year, sources with knowledge of the operation said.

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.

Samsung has been near the front of the pack when it comes to releasing monthly security updates for a while now. The December 2020 update has rolled out to several of the company's phones in the United States, and a similar schedule is now taking place with Samsung's international models.

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

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

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

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’

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.

According to President Trump speaking at a campaign event in Tucson, Arizona, on Monday, “nobody gets hacked.” You don’t need someone who covers security day in and day out to call bullshit on this one. “Nobody gets hacked. To get hacked you need somebody with 197 IQ and he needs about 15 percent of your password,” Trump said, referencing the recent suspension of...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.