The encrypted messaging platform announced a small proportion of users could have had their phone numbers and SMS registration codes accessed by an attacker.
The Kremlin’s cyber-goons are sending mass texts to Ukrainian civilians threatening their lives if they don’t retreat from their homes.
A cybersecurity professional presented research at Black Hat about how his algorithm was co-opted by at least three separate companies.
The company has reportedly said the privacy boost is unrelated to a widely publicized Nebraska abortion case, but the timing is certainly interesting.
Google said the exploit, located in a garbage collection mechanism within the Linux kernel, was first reported by developers in 2016.
Lennert Wouters has apparently made the details of his hacking tool open source.
The NIST's “quantum-resistant” encryption standards, picked via contest, were designed to keep everybody one step ahead of hacking by quantum computers.
Cloudflare has patched the bug and says that it was never actually exploited, and Albert Pedersen earned $6,000.
An encryption algorithm that was supposed to stand up to attacks from the future's most powerful computers was recently laid low by a much simpler machine.
One woman received a maternity coupon addressed to her daughter the same day she read a Gizmodo investigation into brokers selling pregnancy data.
Gizmodo identified 32 brokers selling data on 2.9 billion profiles of U.S. residents pegged as "actively pregnant" or "shopping for maternity products."
Spanish police say the men were behind a series of cyberattacks that interfered with the nation's ability to monitor for dangerous levels of radioactivity.
Cybersecurity researchers say they discovered a host of security issues with the city's official covid app, but the government has denied the accusations.
The House Intelligence Committee held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss the dangers posed by commercial surveillance, particularly the NSO Group.
Hackers have been going after Facebook ad accounts for years, but multiple reports show how LinkedIn has become a major resource for phishing expeditions.
A dating app for the unvaccinated, Unjected, left user data totally unprotected, according to new research.
The con is a bizarre mashup of a romance scam and an investment scheme.
The digital pets company got hacked, and now the crook wants somebody to buy the data for bitcoin.
A Chinese GPS tracker with nearly half a million customers has security flaws that could let a hacker cut fuel to a car while it's running, researchers say.
Hackers in the "Maui" group took control of a hospital's servers last year and threatened to double the ransom if it wasn't paid within 48 hours.
