Earlier this week a politically motivated group of Swedish investigative journalists linked some supposedly anonymous right-wing comments posted via Disqus to their actual authors. While several of the authors freely admitted to the posts, it also led …

Word that mobile malware is rather pervasive has been making the rounds for months, but a new report has found that a shocking 100% of the Top 100 paid Android apps and 56% of the Top 100 paid Apple iOS apps have been hacked. Averaged together, users h…

Perhaps it was inevitable, but a 64-bit version of the Zeus banking trojan has been spotted in the wild – and it now comes enhanced with Tor.

Sweden has sometimes been called the ‘Sixth Eye’ – referring to the English-speaking Five Eyes SIGINT alliance – suggesting a close working relationship between Sweden’s FRA and the NSA and GCHQ. New documents suggest that it has access to the XKeyscor…

Sweden has sometimes been called the ‘Sixth Eye’ – referring to the English-speaking Five Eyes SIGINT alliance – suggesting a close working relationship between Sweden’s FRA and the NSA and GCHQ. New documents suggest that it has access to the XKeyscor…

The issue of hacked WordPress sites continues to persist, as evidenced by one victimized URL being used to host links to thousands if not millions or billions of shady pharmaceutical sites without the knowledge of the owners.

Eleven Microsoft bulletins including ten critical vulnerabilities – some of which are already being actively exploited – affecting all supported versions of Windows, Office, SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync make for a busy last month of a busy year (106 …

The old adage of “if it’s too good to be true that it usually is,” continues to hold water. An elaborate social engineering lure using the Affordable Care Act as bait is unfolding, with the end goal of serving up an executable file containing malware.

Ahead of the G20 summit in Russia in late summer, a group of perpetrators (who may be Chinese) carried out a targeted attack on diplomatic missions, including ministries of foreign affairs (MFA), using the crisis in Syria as social engineering bait.

SSL certificates are designed to provide trust in the internet. They are issued by trusted Certificate Authorities to prove that a site is indeed the site it claims to be. But if a certificate is forged, lost, or improperly issued, it provides false tr…