SECURITY

Google has added new protections to help prevent against a phishing attack like the one that hit Gmail users earlier this year.

An Android malware known as GhostCtrl can record audio and video from an infected phone and steal information from connected Windows machines.

MySpace just fixed a major security flaw that allows anyone hijack an account with nothing more than a person's birthday—a vulnerability that had been disclosed to the company for months.

Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones accidentally exposed customer data online, including personal and payment information.

A new survey shows how common password sharing is for streaming services. Investors may be wondering if Netflix is giving too much away for free.

The law has been proposed to compel the global tech companies, mostly based in the U.S., to provide the security agencies access to encrypted messages.

A scan performed on millions of Windows machines found tens of thousands are still vulnerable to the EternalBlue exploit that was used to spread WannaCry and Petya attacks.

International insurance company Bupa experienced a data breach caused by a disgruntled employee that affected more than 500,000 customers.

Customer information and credit card numbers were stolen from 14 Trump Hotels' properties in a data breach of a third-party reservations system.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation ranked tech companies on how they handle government data requests. Here are the ones that received the lowest score and the best.

Emails from 2009 appear to show Kaspersky Lab worked with Russian intelligence agencies on a project to help track down hackers.

A new strain of malware for MacOS machines is targeting customers of Swiss banks in an attempt to steal their credentials and gain access to their accounts.

A new Android ransomware attack called LeakerLocker claims to steal private information from a victim's device and threatens to send it to their contacts if they don't pay the ransom.

Vending machine company Avanti Markets had machines hit by malware that resulted in the theft of customer information — including credit card numbers and biometric data.

Twitter’s ongoing legal battle against the U.S. Government was given a boost Thursday after a federal judge ruled the FBI and Department of Justice can’t block the social media giant from publishing “classified” government surveillance requests.

The number of malware samples discovered in 2016 dropped from the year before, but the attacks are more sophisticated than ever, says a new report.

An Android malware known as CopyCat has infected 14 million devices and rooted 8 million by targeting old vulnerabilities.

A Connecticut man plead guilty to stealing more than $350,000 worth of Bitcoins through phishing scams targeting dark web users.

The data of millions of wrestling fans — including their addresses and ethnicity— was left on an unprotected server.

Security researchers disclosed a new attack that would allow a third party to instantly decrypt communications made on an encrypted satellite phone.

Tim Estes, CEO of Digital Reasoning, explains the evolution of machine learning surveillance techniques.