Cybersecurity
Snapchat says it is adding new user privacy features after a holiday hack last week, when hackers exposed the private information of about 4.6 million Snapchat users. The young social media company also said it would beef up internal security to make it more difficult to get at account information, but noticeably offered no apologies.
If you've kept up with all of the revelations from the Edward Snowden leak, it may seem that the National Security Agency already has all of the surveillance tools and access it could ever need. But according to a new leak from the ex-NSA contractor, published first by The Washington Post, the NSA is working on the mother of all digital spying tools: a quantum computer.
The National Security Agency essentially bribed an important industry computer and network security firm to put a secret backdoor in their encryption formulas, according to a new report.
Since the late summer, we've known that the FBI had an elite hacker squad to develop surveillance on terrorism and organized crime suspects using malware. Now new details are emerging about the capabilities of that malware, and it reportedly includes using a suspect's laptop camera to spy on them.
Microsoft and partnered law enforcement agencies from the U.S. and Europe announced on Thursday that it had disrupted the botnet responsible for millions of dollars in search ad fraud. The malicious software net, called "ZeroAccess," may be down for the count, but it's not dead yet.
If you didn't think Windows Vista was virus-prone enough, here's some news to convince you otherwise. Microsoft warned on Tuesday that the substandard Windows operating system is currently under attack from hackers who have found a zero day vulnerability.
Yahoo's denial of willingly giving "direct access" to the National Security Agency may be intact, but that doesn't mean that the NSA didn't have it, according to new revelations from former NSA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The hack attack that Adobe announced early in October is actually considerably worse than originally thought. What was once believed to affect some three million customers' credit card data is now thought to have exposed the encrypted passwords of more than ten times as many customers.
Google is furthering the cause of free expression and anti-authoritarianism on the internet with a new lattice of programs designed to protect human rights organizations and news sources from attacks on the web.
Of all the companies to push for higher cybersecurity standards, Huawei had to walk into the conversation. China's largest phone maker, Huawei Technologies Co., said in a white paper published this week that it wants IT companies and regulators to work on a new broad range of security standards.
Information about the surveillance programs employed by the National Security Agency keeps being published from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks. This time it's email and instant messenger lists that the U.S. agency is slurping up.
The National Security Agency has been trying to hack into Tor networks, according to a new report by The Guardian's NSA watcher Glenn Greenwald. Ironically, the NSA's attempts to hack the online anonymity tool are an example of one U.S. government agency trying to defuse something promoted by another U.S. Federal agency.
Customer names, IDs, encrypted passwords and credit card numbers, and other important, personal information for millions of customers of the multimedia software company Adobe Systems Inc. has been purloined in an monumental hack of the company's corporate network. The hackers were able to access the source code of some of Adobe's most popular software as well.
The details about the National Security Agency's cyber surveillance efforts continue to emerge after the Edward Snowden NSA leak earlier this summer. Each subsequent report about the NSA's powers seem to describe even more sweeping cyber surveillance capabilities than before, and this time is no different.
Yahoo has issued its first of twice-yearly transparency reports.
