Mozilla patches a Firefox zero-day exploit that was discovered by Google's Project Zero and Coinbase's security teams, and it says was being abused in the wild Techmeme · 11 mins ago
US-based cybersecurity company publicly discloses two zero-days in two of Facebook's official WordPress plugins, one with 200K users and one with 20K+ users Techmeme · 20 hours ago
Tool released to decrypt Gandcrab ransomware, thought to have infected 1.5M+ Windows PCs since Jan. 2018, in effort joined by Europol, FBI, Bitdefender, others Techmeme · 1 day ago
Cybersecurity: These are the Internet of Things devices that are most targeted by hackers Reddit · 3 days ago
Yubico says it will replace some security keys used by US government and others due to a bug that reduces the randomness of cryptographic keys generated Techmeme · 5 days ago
Google says it is raising the maximum filter rules limit to 150K from the current 30K in the new Chrome extensions API, giving ad blocker devs more control Techmeme · 6 days ago
Opera launches Opera GX, the world's first gaming-focused browser, with a built-in system to limit the browser's CPU and RAM usage, so other apps run unhindered Techmeme · 1 week ago
Mozilla CEO says a premium version of Firefox is being developed with features like VPN and "secure storage", may come this Fall with monthly subscription plan Techmeme · 1 week ago
Report sheds light on the various ways hackers make money from stolen medical data, from forging a doctor's identity to selling fake prescriptions and labels Techmeme · 1 week ago
GitHub shocks top developer: Access to 5 years’ work inexplicably blocked | ZDNet Reddit · 1 week ago
Researchers find that only 4,183 security flaws from a total of 76K vulnerabilities discovered between 2009 and 2018 had been exploited in the wild Techmeme · 1 week ago
Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome’s anti-ad-blocker changes, despite shared codebase Reddit · 1 week ago
A botnet is brute-forcing over 1.5 million RDP servers all over the world Furthermore, statistics show that despite BlueKeep, most RDP attacks today are brute-force attempts Reddit · 1 week ago
How Lenovo is trying to bring together PCs, smartphones, and data centre hardware into a comprehensive strategy via its three main business groups Techmeme · 1 week ago
For two hours, a large chunk of European mobile traffic was rerouted through China Reddit · 2 weeks ago
Salesforce beats with Q1 revenue of $3.74B, up 24% YoY, net income of $392M, and subscription and support revenues of $3.5B, up 24% YoY Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Apple debuts "Sign in with Apple" button for apps, both iOS and non-iOS, and the web, masking info like email addresses, while still letting devs reach users Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
watchOS 6 to include a new Dose app for reminders to take medication, activity trends, Cycles app for tracking women's health, and more Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Report: ~2.3B files, including sensitive info like credit card and medical data, are exposed via publicly accessible online file storage servers, up 50% YoY Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Dell reports Q1 net income of $329M on revenue of $21.9B, up 3% YoY, below analyst estimates of $22.24B, as server and networking revenue fell 9% YoY to $4.2B Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
VMware reports Q1 revenue of $2.27B, up 13% YoY, beating analyst estimates of $2.24B, and net income of $505M, including a gain of $132M from Pivotal Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Flipboard says hackers had access to its servers for 9+ months and stole some customers' info, including digital tokens linking profiles to 3rd-party services Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
After a long tug of war, W3C says it will not publish future HTML and DOM standards, instead letting the WHATWG, a group of browser vendors, do so Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Researchers: mobile Chrome, Safari, and Firefox failed to show phishing warnings between mid-2017 and late 2018 due to a Google Safe Browsing API issue Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
GnosticPlayers claims to have hacked graphic design service Canva and stolen names, usernames, email addresses of 139M users, and 61M strongly hashed passwords Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Researcher: devices can be tracked across apps and sites with info from sensors like gyroscope; patched on iOS; a minor issue on Android, given poor calibration Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Microsoft officially rolls out the Windows 10 May 2019 update, which includes Windows Sandbox and unified search across Windows, Office, Bing, and more Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
After eight months of alpha testing, the first official version of Tor Browser for Android has been released on the Play Store Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua on the current state of AI, Intel's plans for its autonomous mobility service, and the importance of developing alternatives to LIDAR Techmeme · 1 month ago
At least 186 EU ISPs use deep-packet inspection to shape traffic, break net neutrality Reddit · 1 month ago
IBM report attributes a 95% decline in attacks caused by hacktivist groups since 2015 to the disintegration of Anonymous and sustained law enforcement crackdown Techmeme · 1 month ago
Salesforce says faulty script deployment gave users access to all of their company's Salesforce data, forcing it to shut down much of its infrastructure Friday Techmeme · 1 month ago
Researcher finds data of 2.25M Russian citizens available through leaky Russian government sites, including passport information and other personal details Techmeme · 1 month ago
Stack Overflow says hackers breached its systems on May 11 but that there is no evidence of customer data being accessed, promises more info when probe ends Techmeme · 1 month ago