Kaspersky Says New Zero-Day Malware Hit iPhones—Including Its Own
“The security of iOS, once breached, makes it really challenging to detect these attacks,” says Wardle, who was formerly an...
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Apple’s iOS 16.5 Fixes 3 Security Bugs Already Used in Attacks
Apple, Google, and Microsoft have released major patches this month to fix multiple security flaws already being used in attacks....
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Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor
Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the deep-seated code that tells a PC how to load its operating...
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Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Hit the US
TikTok user data is exposed to Chinese ByteDance employees, a screen recording app goes rogue in Google Play, and privacy...
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Bcrypt, a Popular Password Hashing Algorithm, Starts Its Long Goodbye
When data breaches went from being an occasional threat to a persistent fact of life during the early 2010s, one...
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The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing
Microsoft director of communications Caitlin Roulston says the company is blocking suspicious websites and improving its systems to filter prompts...
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China Hacks US Critical Networks in Guam, Raising Cyberwar Fears
As state-sponsored hackers working on behalf of Russia, Iran, and North Korea have for years wreaked havoc with disruptive cyberattacks...
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Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto
Despite that trend away from dark-web fentanyl sales, four members of the US Congress this week reintroduced a bill called...
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There’s Finally a Way to Improve Cloud Container Registry Security
As software supply chain attacks have emerged as an everyday threat, where bad actors poison a step in the development...
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Leaked Government Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption
Jakubowska, who reviewed the document, says that several countries appear to say they would give police access to people’s encrypted...
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Meta’s $1.3 Billion Fine Is a Strike Against Surveillance Capitalism
Europe’s GDPR has just dealt its biggest hammer blow yet. Almost exactly five years since the continent’s strict data rules...
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The Real Risks in Google’s New .Zip and .Mov Domains
At the beginning of May, Google released eight new top-level domains (TLDs)—the suffixes at the end of URLs, like “.com”...
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