Terrifying: Hackers take over a Jeep driving down the highway at 70 mph
Driverless cars promise to be safer than cars driven by humans… but that’s assuming they don’t get hacked by malicious actors. Hackers Charlie Miller and Chris …
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Cheaters’ nightmare: Affair website Ashley Madison hacked, user data vulnerable
So you decided to cheat on your spouse and you thought extramarital affair website Ashley Madison would keep your identity safe? Oops. KrebsonSecurity reports that Ashley …
How to avoid seven of the most common online scams
The Internet is great for a lot of things — research, entertainment, getting caught up on world news — but it can also be a dangerous minefield …
Anonymizing Wi-Fi device with 2.5 mile range just mysteriously disappeared from Def Con
Earlier this month, we highlighted an intriguing new piece of hardware capable of providing secure and anonymous Wi-Fi connectivity within a 2.5 mile radius. The …
No, seriously: It’s time for Adobe Flash to die
Somewhere, Steve Jobs is smiling. Per The Verge, Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos has taken to Twitter to argue that Adobe needs to set a …
Meet the dreadlocked hippie who’s an encryption guru and has the NSA freaking out
While encryption and secured messaging has long been a topic of interest in tech circles, the issue became a mainstream and hot-button issue in 2013 …
The massive hack of the U.S. government’s employee database is even worse than we thought
Wow. Remember the gigantic hack into the database of the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management? Well it turns out that the hack has affected an …
No One Is Safe: $300 Gadget Steals Encryption Keys out of the Air, and It’s Nearly Unstoppable
Just when you thought you were safe, a new hacking toy comes along and rocks your world. Imagine a tool exists that lets hackers pluck encryption …
‘Hacking Team’ Hack Proves Governments Can Spy On Jailbroken iPhones
Forget about voiding your warranty and potentially rendering your iPhone unusable if something goes wrong, Apple fans now have another reason to avoid jailbreaking their …
Protect Yourself From Hackers – Update to iOS 8.4 and OS X 10.10.4 Right Now
If Apple Music and Beats 1 weren’t enough motivation for you to update your iPhones, iPads and iPod touch handhelds to iOS 8.4, maybe the …
How Being on the Wrong Flight Turns You Into a Target for Spy Agencies
Spy agencies around the world can collect a massive amount of data from unknowing citizens in their quest to identify terror suspects, and the many Snowden …
Passwords From 47 Government Agencies Leaked Online
Stolen email and passwords belonging to individuals from nearly 50 Government agencies have leaked online, according to a CIA backed startup out of Boston. According to …
How the NSA Spied on Antivirus Companies to Make Undetectable Malware
Russian antivirus company Kaspersky revealed recently that it was the target of hackers behind the Stuxnet and Duqu worms last year. The hackers have been attacking the …
This Pita Bread Radio Can Hack Through Any Laptop’s Encryption
Inventive researchers at Tel Aviv University have come up with a new way of spying on computer users, one that can reportedly steal passwords wirelessly …
Warning: Major iPhone Security Flaw Lets Hackers Steal All Your Passwords
A very serious security flaw in Apple’s iOS mobile platform and its OS X desktop operating system has been discovered by security researchers and seemingly …
Crime Pays: Malware authors enjoy an average 1,425% return on investment
A recent report from Trustwave on the state of malware relays that online crime, unfortunately, does pay. The report, originally cited by Net Security, relays …
Leading password security company gets hacked; customers advised to change their master passwords
These days, it appears as if no one is safe from hackers. Just a week after the security firm Kaspersky announced that they had been hacked …
Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll: Hackers stole highly sensitive personal data of government spies
Unknown hackers have recently hit the “PR” department of the U.S. government, stealing data for millions of employees – at least four million, according to …
Hackers reportedly stole Social Security numbers from every federal employee
Yikes. The Associated Press reports that the American Federal of Government Employees union is alleging that hackers actually stole all federal employees’ Social Security numbers in a …
Twitter’s shareable blacklists are a nightmare for the web’s worst trolls
Twitter has plenty of issues, but chief among them is how easy it is for dirtbags with too much free time to berate other users. Twitter has …
Warning: Major iPhone security flaw makes it painfully easy to steal your password
Apple’s iOS platform is one of the most secure mobile operating systems in the world, and each release brings new security features and enhancements. iPhones …
Massive hack lets thieves steal personal data from 4 million federal workers
A new massive data breach has been confirmed, and this time it’s not a major financial institution or retail chain hit by hackers. Instead, it’s the …
The FBI is making it too easy for us to track down its spy planes
The Associated Press revealed earlier this week that the FBI appears to be the intelligence agency that’s flying spy planes in America for surveillance operations. Even …
FBI is behind mysterious ‘Dirtbox’ spy planes that can masquerade as cell towers
Reports last year revealed that U.S. law enforcement agencies might have special aircraft at their disposal that masquerade as cell phone towers and collect data from the …
Tim Cook blasts Google and Facebook while boasting of Apple’s commitment to privacy
The old adage of, “If a product is free you are the product” isn’t lost on Apple CEO Tim Cook. During a recent speech delivered …
Warning: Serious Mac vulnerability could open permanent backdoor to hackers
A security researcher has discovered a new Mac vulnerability that can seriously affect some Mac owners, even though most users should be relatively safe because the security …
TSA security checks can easily be fooled, Homeland Security finds
An undercover operation conducted by Homeland Security Red Teams revealed that TSA security checks often do not serve their intended purpose, with airport officials failing to …
Almost anyone can make ransomware with this horrifying new program
We might be entering a whole new era of malware, one where even those who lack any semblance of deep technical expertise will be able to …
Android tips: How to use an important security feature you probably don’t know about
If your Android phone’s performance has gotten noticeably worse, it might be because it’s being plagued by a malicious app you’ve unwittingly installed. As GreenBot …
Thieves hack IRS, steal tax info from more than 100,000 taxpayers
Gulp. This isn’t good. The Associated Press reports that the Internal Revenue Service admitted on Tuesday that thieves had hacked into one of its systems and had …
