Browsing: infosec
The price of zero-day exploits is rising as companies harden products against hackers
By techtost.com
Tools that enable government hackers to break into iPhones and Android phones, popular software like the Chrome and Safari browsers, and chat apps like WhatsApp and…
Investors’ promise to fight spyware tainted by previous investments in US malware maker
By techtost.com
On Monday, the The Biden administration announced that six new countries had joined an international coalition to combat the spread of commercial spyware, sold by companies…
A US government watchdog stole more than a gigabyte of apparently sensitive personal data from the US Department of the Interior’s cloud systems. The good news:…
In July 2021, someone sent Google a bundle of malicious code that could be used to hack Chrome, Firefox, and computers running Microsoft Defender. This code…
State hackers last year exploited three unknown vulnerabilities in Apple’s iPhone operating system to target victims with spyware developed by a European startup, according to Google.…
On Tuesday, hackers stole about $112 million of the Ripple-focused cryptocurrency XRP from a crypto wallet, Ripple’s co-founder and executive chairman revealed. Ripple’s Chris Larsen said…
In a data breach notification letter filed with regulators this weekend, 23andMe disclosed that hackers began breaking into customer accounts in April 2023 and continued through…
Wouldn’t you like to know what the tech giants know about you? That’s exactly what Russian government hackers want. On Friday, Microsoft revealed that the hacker…
It’s hard to spend an hour or two on YouTube without encountering an ad or paid promotion for a VPN subscription service like NordVPN, ExpressVPN or…
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…