Android users are being reminded to only install apps from the official Google Play store or trusted third parties, after new research has revealed an alarming number of devices continue to be infected by a notorious family of malware. Security researchers at Cheetah Mobile Security claim that it is responsible for most of the Android infections...

At least 58 million people have had their personal information published on the internet - including their names, dates of birth, email and postal addresses, job titles, phone numbers, vehicle data, and IP addresses - after a hacker stole a massive unsecured database. And, if you think that sounds bad, there may be yet more hacked data still to be...

Oh dear. It may very well be National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but a new study suggests that many of the general public have thrown in the towel and given up. The detailed study, from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), suggests that the public is suffering from "security fatigue" and a feeling of helplessness when it...

A Syrian national affiliated with the notorious Syrian Electronic Army hacking group has pleaded guilty in a US court to charges of conspiring to hack into computers and extort money. 37-year-old Peter Romar, who was extradited to the United States from his home in Waltershausen, Germany, appears to have played an important role in the operations of...

Money makes the world go around, and SWIFT - the worldwide inter-bank communication network - is the system that allows banks to send money to each other. So when online criminals find a way to exploit SWIFT, they can transfer huge amounts of money to bank accounts under their control. As we have...

Australian police is advising people to be on the lookout for unmarked, malware-laden USB sticks that someone is dropping into their mailboxes. On 21 September, the Victoria Police published a statement revealing that residents of the suburb of Pakenham in Victoria's capital Melbourne are discovering unmarked USB drives in their mailboxes. Here's a...

A Congressional investigation into the devastating hack of the US government's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has detailed shortcomings in the organisation's security and made recommendations for other federal departments to prevent the same from happening to them. The hefty 227-page report doesn't pull its punches about the seriousness of the...

One of the world's leading wire and cable manufacturers, Leoni AG, has been swindled out of a jaw-dropping 40 million Euros (approximately US $44 million) after it was targeted by an email scammer. As Softpedia reports, a young woman working in the finance department of Leoni's factory in Bistrita, Romania, received an email in mid-August claiming...

If you speak to most experts in the field, they'll agree on at least one thing: computer security isn't really a technological problem. Although the right software and hardware can help reduce the online threats your company might face, ultimately IT security is a human problem. And humans, as we all know from personal experience, aren't perfect and...

It's just a week since Apple announced its first-ever bug bounty for researchers who find vulnerabilities in its widely-used software and hardware, in the hope that it can provide better security and privacy to its millions of customers. The Cupertino-based company made headlines for its belated entry into the bug bounty marketplace, offering up to ...

Good samaritans and skinflints beware! Plugging in that USB stick you found lying around on the street outside your office could lead to a security breach. This is no secret, of course. We have all (hopefully) been aware of the dangers of inserting an unknown USB device into our computers for some time. Heck, the technique has even made it into the...

It was just after 6pm on December 23, 2013, and Lennon Ray Brown, a computer engineer at the Citibank Regents Campus in Irving, Texas, was out for revenge. Earlier in the day, Brown - who was responsible for the bank's IT systems - had attended a work performance review with his supervisor. It hadn't gone well. Brown was now a ticking time bomb...

Are you a fan of Warframe? Is so, Digital Extremes, the company behind the popular online game for the XBox One, Playstation 4 and PC, has some bad news for you. Last week we were made aware of a potential web server breach that occurred in November 2014. At the time, we believed this to be a phishing scam as our account server was secure. After a...

You visit a company on business, and want to print something out. You visit another department in your office and need a hard copy of a document in your email. You're a guest at someone's home and want to print off directions to the airport. What do you? Simple. You get Windows to quickly search for and add a printer hosted on the network, and off...

Quick question - are you right or left handed? That's a harmless enough question, but here's the follow-up: do you wear a smartwatch or fitness tracker on that same wrist? If you do, then you may want to rethink whether that was a sensible choice after you've read about some fascinating research done by a group of scientists from Binghamton...

An new exploit kit campaign is targeting websites running on out-of-date versions of the Joomla! and WordPress content management system (CMS). Researchers at Sucuri have been tracking the campaign for the past several weeks. They've codenamed it "Realstatistics" because it injects fake analytics code for "realstatistics[.]info" or "realstatistics[....

If you need any more evidence that ransomware has become a major problem, just look at how online criminals are busily developing attacks against platforms other than Windows. Yes, Windows continues to be the operating system most commonly targeted with ransomware threats - but malware that attempts to extort money out of you is also being actively...

Researchers have called for users to patch and upgrade their vulnerable software as soon as possible after three severe vulnerabilities were found in libarchive, a widely-used open source compression library. The libarchive programming library was originally developed for the FreeBSD project but is now used by software coders around the world to...

Users of popular online forums are being advised to change their passwords following the leak of some 45 million credentials. As LeakedSource reports, millions of user credentials from over 1,100 websites and communities - including techsupportforum.com, autoguide.com, petsguide.com and motorcycle.com - have been exposed after parent company...

In the last day or two, there have been a spate of posts by TeamViewer users claiming that their computers have been hijacked by malicious hackers, their PayPal and other banking accounts emptied, their webmail accessed, and malicious software installed. And the victims seem to believe the attacks are linked to their use of TeamViewer. ...