A group of developers has released a new untethered jailbreak for devices running iOS 5.1.1. The hack allows users to run unsigned apps on their devices, something that Apple doesn't like so much. Read more »

A bill before the New York State Assembly would essentially ban anonymous comments on New York-based Web sites. Read more »

The FBI Cyber Division has sent a warning to some of the world's top corporations about a coordinated campaign of denial of service attacks and hacking, scheduled for Friday, May 25. Read more »

The US State Department has launched a digital campaign against Al Qaida in which they are replacing the terror organization’s anti-American propaganda ads on Yemeni tribal sites with anti-terror propaganda of their own, according to an Associated Press report. Read more »

While there are an increasing number of weekends catered to hacking, even hackers need a day off – and it shouldn’t surprise many that increasingly, that day is usually Sunday. Network security company FireEye reviewed statistics on email-based attacks for 2012 that suggest that Sunday has slowed into a “day of rest” for hackers. Read more »

The FBI said that there are still more than 330,000 computers believed to be infected with the DNSChanger malware, with just weeks to go before a court order to cut off their ability to communicate with the rest of the Internet. Fully 77,000 are located in the U.S., according to data provided to Threatpost. Read more »

Just a few days after releasing Chrome 19, Google has updated the browser again, fixing 13 vulnerabilities, including two critical bugs.  Read more »

VIEW SLIDESHOW Fair Game: 12 Months, 10 Eye-Popping Hacks Targeting Some Of the Globe’s Biggest Gaming Firms

The past year has seen a sharp increase in attacks aimed at online gaming platforms and game makers. In fact, there was a point last summer, in the wake of Sony’s Playstation Network outage, when it seemed like no video game company was safe from hackers – whether they be ideologically motivated groups like Lulzsec or run-of-the-mill cyber crooks.

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Yahoo on Wednesday launched a new browser called Axis and researchers immediately discovered that the company had mistakenly included its private signing key in the source file, a serious error that would allow an attacker to create a malicious, signed extension for a browser that the browser will then treat as authentic. Read more »

Two independent researchers are proposing an extension for TLS to provide greater trust in certificate authorities, which have become a weak link in the entire public key infrastructure after some big breaches involving fraudulent SSL certificates. Read more »