Threats

On the night of 5 June 2013, a coalition led by the FBI and Microsoft broke up a botnet of two million connected PCs that was being used by cybercriminals

The popular microblogging website, Tumblr, announced a breach in its security for iOS customers last week. The company asked all users of its iPhone and iPad app to change their

Have you ever wondered what a hacked computer, email address, or other online account is even worth? Sure, it seems pretty obvious that there’d be some serious value in a

There is an entire market of plugins out there designed to keep you safe while surfing the web on your browser of choice. Each one has lots of options; for

A newly discovered vulnerability in a popular browser exposes how photos can be taken of unsuspecting users. Further proof of hackers’ inventiveness appeared last week in the form of a

In late 2011, it emerged that Chinese hackers had thoroughly compromised the United States Chamber of Commerce, perforating the lobbying-group’s networks with a devastating chain of backdoors. Chamber officials admitted

It’s harder and harder to keep your personal information private when browsing the web, but fortunately there is an entire market of add-on utilities, known as plugins, designed to keep

Father’s Day is fast approaching, which means finding the perfect gift for dad should be at the top of your to do list.  And if you’ve had your eye on

Security professionals and enthusiasts are aware of rootkits, but general audiences typically don’t know about this kind of malware, which is specifically designed to hide itself and its activity in

APT stands for advanced persistent threat. It became famous following a New York Times exposé detailing a month’s long attack campaign in which a Chinese military unit now known as

If Achilles’s heel was his vulnerability in the Iliad, then Paris’s poison tipped arrow was the exploit. Quite literally, an exploit is the device or – more often than not

We recently wrote about the conspicuous lack of privacy discussion at Google’s recent I/O Conference in San Francisco. While it’s true that there wasn’t much talk of privacy at the

The owners of smartphones running Android and iOS sometimes enter into heated discussions as to whether it’s worthwhile to perform the mysterious procedures known as rooting and jailbreaking their devices.

Everybody talks about HTTPS and being careful with credit or debit cards online, but what makes you think your cards are safe offline? I can’t speak for anyone other than

Computers, initially created for military cipher breaking, give everyone an almost perfect way to keep our secrets totally private – through encryption. For a long time strong encryption was only

Getting to the bottom of independent AV comparative testing – who to believe and how to make the right decision. We respect the right of any user to choose a

Permanent deletion by default after a predetermined amount of time is the gimmick that drove Snapchat users to upload more than 150 million photos a day in April. Problematically, Snapchat’s

Given the deftness of malicious hackers, the bar-lowering impact of easily accessible markets for automated cybercriminal kits, and the increasing number of online services and people connected to the Internet,

If we really wanted to thoroughly discuss ‘HTTPS’ and Digital Certificates, then we’d need to talk about cryptography, but don’t worry, because we’re going to go ahead and spare you

Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs for short, have become increasingly essential of late as we more often access sensitive data from remote locations — and as the threat of having our