Apps are “definitely the kind of stuff that Apple should have caught,” researcher says. Researchers said they’ve found more than 250 iOS apps that violate Apple’s App Store privacy policyRead More →
Facebook will now detect when state hackers are trying to hijack accounts, and alert users when it happens Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer at Facebook, has announced a new systemRead More →
The number of countries deploying it grows to 32.FinFisher, a piece of spyware sold to governments by a German security vendor, has been linked by recent research to at leastRead More →
Industry looking to improve access controls and authentication, but decisions still governed by security requirements, use cases, hacker disruption. Yahoo this week became the latest to pass out the torchesRead More →
A group of Russian hackers infiltrated the servers of Dow Jones & Co., owner of the Wall Street Journal and several other news publications, and stole information to trade onRead More →
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) was designed to help secure websites (those using HTTPS) by declaring to web browsers that they should communicate only via HTTPS with the server toRead More →
A banking trojan, detected by ESET as Win32/Brolux.A, is targeting Japanese internet banking users and spreading through at least two vulnerabilities: a Flash vulnerability leaked in the Hacking Team hackRead More →
Researchers show how mass decryption is well within the NSA’s $11 billion budget. For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic softwareRead More →
You may be under the impression that the new EMV chip system for credit card payments is nice and secure. But the UK’s been using it since 2003 — soRead More →
Over the years, the McAfee Labs team has worked with IT security vendors, law enforcement and others to identify and evaluate numerous websites, chat rooms, and other online platforms, communities,Read More →
