- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 28th, 2016
Apple Patches 61 Ways of Pwning an Apple TV
Company finally patches 3rd-gen Apple TV devices
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 27th, 2016
Hackers Can Trick One of Microsoft's Security Tools to Disable Itself
Researchers find simple Microsoft EMET exploit
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 26th, 2016
Three Anonymous Hackers Are Facing Trial in France After Targeting Local Police
Hackers will probably get off easy, no jail time
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 25th, 2016
Google's Project Shield Aims to Protect News Sites from DDoS Attacks
Human rights and elections monitoring services can also apply and get free DDoS protection from Google
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 24th, 2016
Locky Ransomware Makes Its First High-Profile Victim As It Continues to Spread
Locky ransomware infects computers at New Zealand hospital
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 23rd, 2016
CloudFlare Launches Domain Name Registrar Focused on Security
CloudFlare-registred domain names will never expire
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 21st, 2016
NSA Data Center Experiences Up to 300 Million Cyber-Attacks per Day
Six years ago, the cyber-attacks barely reached 25,000
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 17th, 2016
Instagram Fixes Bug That Allowed People to See Someone Else's Notifications
Bug affected only devices running Instagram shared accounts
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 17th, 2016
Instagram Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Make Hackers' Life More Difficult
Feature is currently in testing, will be launched soon
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 15th, 2016
Anonymous Leaks Details for 64,000 Tanzania Telecommunications Company Employees
OpAfrica continues to make new victims, it's Tanzania's turn
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 15th, 2016
Anonymous Hacks South Africa's Department of Water Affairs
Hacktivists breach server, get access to site's admin panel
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 11th, 2016
The Number of Reported Cyber-Attacks Grew in 2015
Most of the attacks were part of cyber-crime campaigns
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 11th, 2016
Malvertising Makes Its Way into Skype
Skype users were safe, but browser users were being redirected to the Angler Exploit Kit, which deployed TeslaCrypt
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 9th, 2016
Google Updates Gmail to Show Warnings for Non-TLS Conversations
Gmail also shows warnings for unauthenticated conversations
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 7th, 2016
GitHub Paid Nearly $100,000 in Bug Bounties in the Last Two Years
Company fixed 102 security bugs in the past two years
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 6th, 2016
Internet Archive Sets Up a Malware Museum
F-Secure researcher dedicates himself to documenting old malware, the one that ran on MS-DOS in the '80s and '90s
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 5th, 2016
Campaign of Compromised WordPress Websites Now Spreading Ransomware
Campaign operators switch from pushing the Backdoor.Andromeda malware to the TeslaCrypt ransomware instead