The Epilepsy Foundation has filed a criminal complaint against undisclosed Twitter users who users its Twitter feed to post seizure-inducing content.

Last summer, a wave of sextortion emails began flooding inboxes around the world. The spammers behind this scheme claimed they'd hacked your computer and recorded videos of you watching porn, and promised to release the embarrassing footage to all your contacts unless a bitcoin demand was paid. Now, French authorities say they've charged two men they believe are responsible for masterminding this scam. One of them is a 21-year-old hacker interviewed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2017 who openly admitted to authoring a banking trojan called "Nuclear Bot."

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The data includes sensitive information including one’s browsing history that ended up embarrassing a lot of users. Here's what else was in there...

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How to move beyond one-off campaigns and build a true security awareness program.

New study finds top ranked sites susceptible to WCD attacks

Researchers say that Amazon and Google need to focus on weeding out malicious skills from the getgo, rather than after they are already live.

There are signs that the attackers used the particularly pernicious Ryuk strain of ransomware.

IoT devices are using weak digital certificates that could expose them to attack, according to a study released over the weekend.

Confining untrustworthy code

Mozilla last week fired off an important memo to all Firefox extension developers telling them to turn on authentication (2FA) on their addons.mozilla.org (AMO) accounts.