When we talk to people whose computers have been infected, they often ask how it happened. In a growing number of cases, they have been doing nothing more than reading a news website or browsing for ...

More than 10,000 web sites have been infected with a malicious script that redirects visitors to a site installing malware through unpatched browsers, and the number is likely to rise as only 1,100 ...

If you're not a Linux sysadmin, you might not be familiar with Control Web Panel, but if you are a Linux sysadmin, you almost certainly are at least aware of the app. Control Web Panel, or CWP, is a ...

The PlayStation Network wasn’t hacked so much as threatened yesterday when a password exploit accessible through its PSN web page login page came to light, claims Sony. Sony spokesperson Patrick ...

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Heads turned Wednesday when Twitter turned off its popular new authentication service, which uses the emerging OAuth web standard. The real story soon broke that someone exposed an OAuth security ...

Princeton privacy experts are warning that advertising and analytics firms can secretly extract site usernames from browsers using hidden login fields and tie non-authenticated users visiting a site ...

Security researchers have warned of an underlying security issue concerning the Border Gateway Protocol, the core internet routing protocol. In a presentation at the Defcon security conference earlier ...

A new exploit could allow users to bypass security checks in Electron, a popular cross-platform development framework. The exploit, posted by Trustwave, has been patched and developers should update ...

Just in time for the new year, there's a new Java zero-day exploit out in the wild. It's already being used by criminals to attack your Web browser, and the only defense is to disable Java for ...

The crypto exchange said in a statement that a portion of Solana network-based assets worth approximately 54 billion won were ...