Browsing: cyber security

Back to 2018, my former VICE Motherboard colleague Joseph Cox and I started publishing a list of the best cybersecurity stories published elsewhere. It wasn’t just…

Comcast has confirmed that hackers exploiting a security vulnerability rated critical accessed the sensitive information of nearly 36 million Xfinity customers. This vulnerability, known as “CitrixBleed”,…

An international team of law enforcement agencies has taken down the dark web leaking the infamous ransomware known as ALPHV or BlackCat. “The Federal Bureau of…

It’s the season to go a little overboard with the gift. But this year, give the gift of good security (and privacy) and avoid technology that…

Identity and access management company Okta acquires security company Spera. Expected to close during the first fiscal quarter beginning in early February, the Spera acquisition will…

Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than Google’s servers, effectively ending a long-standing surveillance practice that allowed police…

Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, small and medium-sized businesses have become a major target in the world of cybercrime, accounting for around half of all…

Microsoft says it has successfully dismantled the infrastructure of a cybercrime operation that sold access to fraudulent Outlook accounts to other hackers, including the notorious Scattered…

Hackers have compromised the code behind an encryption protocol used by many web3 applications and services, software maker Ledger said Thursday. Ledger, a company that makes…

Apple said it will no longer hand over users’ push notification files to law enforcement unless the company receives a valid court order. In Law enforcement…