Twice in the space of six weeks, the world has suffered major attacks of ransomware—malicious software that locks up photos and other files stored on your computer, then demands money to release them.
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Malicious software designed to attack Android smartphones has breached the accounts of more than a million Google users, security researchers said Wednesday.
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Nov 30, 2016
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Software developers listen up: if you want people to pay attention to your security warnings on their computers or mobile devices, you need to make them pop up at better times.
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Aug 17, 2016
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US software maker Adobe on Monday released security updates for its Flash video player amid ongoing concerns about security holes that could let hackers in.
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Dec 28, 2015
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Twitter has warned some of its users that their accounts on the messaging platform may be the target of "state-sponsored hackers."
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Dec 14, 2015
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Three Virginia Tech computer scientists are unveiling a novel approach to discovering stealth attacks on computers at the annual ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security.
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Oct 13, 2015
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For software programmers, security tools are analytic software that can scan or run their code to expose vulnerabilities long before the software goes to market. But these tools can have shortcomings, and programmers don't ...
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Aug 24, 2015
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Russian-based hackers are using malicious software concealed in Twitter images to relay commands and steal data from US computer networks, security researchers said this week.
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Jul 30, 2015
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Researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center have discovered that virtually any cellphone infected with a malicious code can use GSM phone frequencies to steal critical information ...
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Jul 28, 2015
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Facebook announced Tuesday it has been using a new security tool to help detect and remove malicious software for users of the world's biggest social network.
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Jun 23, 2015
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