Vizio admits to spying on you through your smart TV
Reports revealed in November 2015 that Vizio Smart TVs were collecting data about its customers without their knowledge, virtually spying on everything users watched on …
Security
Why Trump’s Muslim ban won’t prevent home-grown ISIS attacks
Donald Trump keeps repeating that his Muslim ban executive order will prevent the “bad dudes” from entering American and then perform various acts of terrorism. …
The real reason why Trump using an old Android phone should freak you out
President Donald Trump is still using his old Android phone, a new report revealed, even if he’s not supposed to do it. The device is …
Gmail is about to get its best new security feature in a long time
Malware attacks often creep in via email, as attachments that unsuspecting users open on their work and personal computers. These malicious programs can potentially unleash …
Charter just tweeted out the worst internet security tip of all time
Every year, without fail, some analytics firm comes out with a list of the most absurdly bad passwords that real people are actually using to …
Old Android malware still infecting millions of users
Remember HummingBad? It’s an “old” malware from early-to-mid 2016, which was discovered and addressed at the time. However, it looks like it wasn’t killed, and …
This tool can crack your Android lock in five attempts or less
Fingerprint security is becoming a standard feature on many Android devices, but there’s still plenty of people who rely on the trust pattern lock. If you’re …
Security researcher finds the DDoS mastermind who took down the internet last fall
A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack can take down a site, a server, or various parts of the internet. Attackers send to the target …
An insidious new Gmail phishing attack is tricking even the most careful of users
A new phishing technique is fooling internet users into giving hackers access to their Gmail accounts. According to WordPress security plugin creator Wordfence, the way that the …
WhatsApp vulnerability: Encryption backdoor or convenience feature?
The government, it turns out, could intercept WhatsApp texts if it wanted to, a new report revealed a few days ago. That’s even if Facebook’s …
The most common passwords of 2016 are just as embarrassing as you expected
Every year, security experts and internet bloggers plead with the general public to use more secure passwords for their online accounts. Every year, the public fails …
Los Angeles college reportedly pays hackers $28K ransom
A Los Angeles college reportedly paid hackers a $28,000 ransom after a cyberattack kept students and faculty locked out of their accounts. The Valley Star, …
Google may be forced to stop reading your Gmail for ads
The European Union is looking to take additional steps to guard the privacy of European internet users. The new initiative might limit the power of …
Your fingerprint sensor could be hacked with a single photo
Our fingerprints guard our digital lives more than ever before and, between Apple’s Touch ID and the various fingerprint unlock features from Android manufacturers, biometric …
Hackers have a new way to steal your banking login using WhatsApp
Hackers are targeting unsuspecting users with a new type of mobile virus that spreads through legitimate-looking word documents sent via WhatsApp, which could then steal sensitive …
President Trump thinks computers aren’t safe, promises hacking revelations
We’re in for a big hacking-related reveal this week when President-elect Donald Trump will tell us things that people don’t know about the recent cyber …
Inside X-Force Command, IBM’s cutting-edge cyber security facility
Seated at a row of computers inside IBM’s new office in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Mass., an unsuspecting employee has just clicked a malicious link …
Here’s how to delete all the voice recordings Amazon Echo and Google Home secretly store
It finally happened: law enforcement agencies want access to the data recorded by an Amazon Echo device, information that could be used in an ongoing murder …
The scary reason the NSA knows when Russia hacks the US, without any doubt
American intelligence agencies have lined up their stories and currently agree that Putin’s Russia is responsible for the DNC hack. President-elect Donald Trump might dispute …
Lie-detecting kiosks are coming to an airport near you
Making it through a security checkpoint at an airport can be a stressful ordeal even if you don’t have anything to hide. Those moment between when …
Medical marijuana program accidentally exposes thousands of addresses and social security numbers
Letting the world know you sell marijuana — even exclusively for medical purposes — is something not every medical marijuana employee is comfortable with. There’s still a …
Teen hacker claims breach of Russian Visa Center’s systems
A hacker claims to have breached the systems of an organization that helps Americans obtain Russian visas. The Russian Visa Center, which has five locations …
Six-year-old unlocks sleeping mom’s phone with her thumb, racks up $250 Amazon bill
Money can be tight around the holidays with so many gifts to buy, and sometimes a careful budget is the only thing standing between you …
This is why you should really encrypt your iPhone
Since it’s encrypted with your password or fingerprint, an iPhone is useless to anyone looking to force their way into the data stored on it. …
Hacking the DNC and the Ukrainian army have one thing in common: Russia
President-elect Donald Trump may dispute the fact that Russia had a hand in the DNC hacks, or that these hacks helped him win the election, …
The NFL’s Twitter account just got hacked
Pesky hackers are at it again, and this time the target is the NFL. OurMine, the hacking group which has repeatedly targeted high-profile Twitter accounts, …
Netflix’s Twitter account just got hacked
Notorious Twitter hackers OurMine have claimed yet another high-profile victim, breaking into the official Netflix Twitter account and posting some self-congratulatory tweets. The group, which …
700 million Android phones have spying firmware preinstalled
The term “mobile phone security” is something of a joke these days, with the number of exploits, bugs, and breaches that are endlessly assaulting us …
Court sets worrying precedent by forcing iPhone owner to reveal his passcode
When the United States Constitution was written, things like smartphones didn’t exist. and adapting the aging document to modern technology is an inexact science to …
How I knew Yahoo had been hacked before Yahoo did
So, Yahoo got hacked again. It’s a new, bigger breach than the one Yahoo most recently admitted to, and over a billion user accounts have …
