Enormous botnets of IoT devices are going after decades-old legacy systems that are rife in systems that control crucial infrastructure.

A comment spammer flooded Babuk’s new ransomware forum with gay orgy porn GIFs and demanded $5K in bitcoin.

Microsoft releases mitigations for a Windows NT LAN Manager exploit that forces remote Windows systems to reveal password hashes that can be easily cracked.

One day after last summer's mass-hack of Twitter, KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph "PlugwalkJoe" O'Connor appeared to have been involved in the incident. When the Justice Department last week announced O'Connor's arrest and indictment, his alleged role in the Twitter compromise was well covered in the media.

But most of the coverage so far seem to have overlooked the far more sinister criminal charges in the indictment, which involve an underground scene wherein young men turn to extortion, sextortion, SIM swapping, death threats and physical attacks -- all in a bid to seize control over highly-prized social media accounts.

Five-year anniversary for crime-busting website

By Owais Sultan

The best way to get rid of the information on your SSD is to shred it. You can do it by yourself or have it shredded at a recycling center.

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Flaws in biometric hardware have since been patched

Sprechen Sie Rust? Polyglot malware authors are increasingly using obscure programming languages to evade detection.

Quick-thinking citizens snap up correctly spelled domain after spotting blunder

Keeper’s research reveals that in addition to knocking systems offline, ransomware attacks degrade productivity, cause organizations to incur significant indirect costs, and mar their reputations.