Tinder is a very popular mobile dating app. It is designed to allow people to ‘meet’ virtually before deciding whether they would like to meet for real. Unfortunately, Tinder has a history of allowing one user to physically locate another, even if the …

The latest Cenzic report on application vulnerability trends shows that things aren’t getting any better. All software has bugs, and almost all of them have bugs that are security vulnerabilities. In fact, on average, they have 14 separate vulnerabilit…

The latest Cenzic report on application vulnerability trends shows that things aren’t getting any better. All software has bugs, and almost all of them have bugs that are security vulnerabilities. In fact, on average, they have 14 separate vulnerabilit…

Microsoft has paid out its second $100,000 bug bounty since launching its reward program in mid-2013. The award brings total payouts for the program to $253,000 in under a year.

A new variant of the notorious Zeus banking trojan is making the rounds, with a new approach that uses steganography, a technique that allows it to disguise data inside of an existing file without damaging it.

CNN Money described Shodan as “The scariest search engine on the Internet.” Forbes called it a “terrifying search engine.” Unlike Google, Shodan searches for internet-connected devices (which could have known vulnerabilities) rather than information. F…

Rapid7’s Metasploit researchers have developed a new exploit for an old vulnerability that remains pervasive in the Android ecosystem some 9 months after it was patched by Google. With this new code, 70% of all Android users are vulnerable to a little …

An analysis of compromised credentials posted to Pastebin suggests that hundreds of millions of passwords are being compromised by cybercriminals every year.

Passwords do not keep our personal data safe. That much is empirically clear – the sheer volume of passwords that are stolen and the ease with which they are cracked demonstrates this on a weekly basis. But it is not the theory of passwords that fails,…

Details from a newly disclosed document from the cache of Edward Snowden leaks demonstrates that the Australian spy agency (one of the Five Eyes) was monitoring a US law firm advising the Indonesian government on a trade dispute with the US in 2013 in …