A breach affecting more than 52 million users was patched, but not before leading to the company rethinking the future of the service.

Back in April 2015, I tweeted about receiving a letter via snail mail suggesting the search engine rankings for a domain registered in my name would suffer if I didn't pay a bill for some kind of dubious-looking service I'd never heard of. But it wasn't until the past week that it become clear how many organizations -- including towns, cities and political campaigns -- actually have fallen for this brazen scam.

A Russian firm aims to capitalize on ransomware victims' desperation by offering to unlock files then passing money to attackers.

The consumer version of Google+ will now be shut down in April instead of August after a bug was found that impacts at least 50 million users.

Emails say they contain a link with screenshots of victims' compromising activity. In reality, the link executes ransomware.

By Waqas

A team of security researchers working for the renowned automobile maker Toyota have developed a new car hacking tool. Dubbed as PASTA (Portable Automotive Security Testbed), it is an open source tool created to help researchers identify the prevailing vulnerabilities in modern vehicles. The team presented their research at the BLACKHAT EUROPE 2018, London, where […]

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Plug-and-play hardware lacks even basic functional security for crucial bootrom.

Bagle.A and Bagle.B date back to 2004.

Bagle.A and Bagle.B date back to 2004.

The scam is spread via Facebook and WhatsApp messages.