Incentivized by a minimal amount of cash, computer users who took part in a study were willing to agree to download an executable file to their machines without questioning the potential consequences.
Cloud-based code-hosting service Code Spaces announced today it was going out of business after a hacker deleted most of its machines, customer data and backups.
A hacker exploiting vulnerabilities in Synology network attached storage boxes was able to mine $620,000 in Dogecoin.
Researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara and Aachen University in Germany examined the relationship between spammers, botmasters and email harvesters in order to improve antispam systems.
Microsoft released a security advisory today warning users of a denial of service vulnerability in its Malware Protection Engine which ships with a number of Microsoft security products.
The Asprox botnet has evolved to include APT characteristics that help it evade detection by security software.
Qualys director of engineering Ivan Ristic published data that indicates about half of servers running OpenSSL are vulnerable to CVE-2014-0224.
Google Play’s new app permissions arrive with some privacy concerns.
An Austrian teen at the center of yesterday’s TweetDeck security incident explains how things went wrong and what the last 24 hours have been like.
TweetDeck said it temporarily has taken down its services after cross-site scripting exploit code circulated today.
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