Should You Worry About People Hacking Toilets?
This has been an interesting month, with news about hacking a variety of unusual things. People have hacked cars,...
You’ve probably heard it before: “Macs don’t get viruses.” For years, Apple’s reputation for security has led users to believe their Macs are immune to malware, phishing, or other online threats. This belief isn’t entirely unfounded. macOS is a secure operating system with several built-in protections. But that doesn’t mean it’s bulletproof. In recent years,...
Apple has just released critically urgent security updates—including macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 and iOS 18.4.1—to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that have been actively exploited in...
You can connect a surprising variety of things to iPhones and iPads via their USB-C (or Lightning) ports, including storage devices, SD card readers,...
23andMe, the popular DNA ancestry and traits service, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Should you tell the company to delete your data and...
Cookie-Bite proves what we already knew: browser extensions can be very dangerous to your security and privacy. Learn how malware extensions can steal session cookies and let hackers sign into your accounts.
This has been an interesting month, with news about hacking a variety of unusual things. People have hacked cars,...
It’s that time of year again – time for a significant portion of the population to get ready to...
Last week, Mozilla released Firefox 23 for Mac OS X, which included 13 fixes for known vulnerabilities (4 Critical,...
As of yesterday, it got a little less convenient to encrypt email end-to-end, as both Lavabit and Silent Circle...
Spammers have a tendency to attempt to exploit any medium in order to drive traffic to their sites. Everyone...
So apparently this is the week I get to harp on the necessity of reading news with a soupçon...
Some of the most noteworthy malware were likely considered a failure by their authors. Flashback, for instance, turned out...
In one of my previous incarnations within the security industry, I was on the receiving end of a lot...
Every year the Black Hat security conference promises spectacular headlines of the ways hackers can use to make our...