Category: SECURITY TECH

While helpful and creative, Chrome extensions have also become a new playground for hackers intent on stealing your data....

The US military is reexamining security policies after fitness tracker data shared on social media revealed bases and patrol routes...

As special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation grows, at least one Facebook employee who worked alongside the 2016 Trump campaign has been pulled into the probe....

The Doomsday Clock, #ReleaseTheMemo, and more of the week’s top security news....

Scouring the blockchain, researchers found years-old evidence tying Silk Road transaction to users’ public accounts....

Congressman Devin Nunes has fired up his fellow Republicans over a mysterious memo, taking advantage of a secretive legal process to sow confusion....

At Yahoo, Bob Lord led the response to two massive cyberattacks. Now he’s bringing that know-how to the Democratic National Committee....

As the so-called Doomsday Clock ticks even closer to midnight, a reminder of just how easy it is to slip into nuclear war....

In the haste to address the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that shook the computer industry, several clumsy patch attempts have had to be pulled....

Thanks to Tinder’s patchwork use of HTTPS, researchers found they could reconstruct someone’s entire experience in the app....

Pixek, an end-to-end encrypted photo app, could point to the future of searchable cloud data storage....

Opinion: Researchers from Yale Privacy Lab argue that the scourge of trackers in Android apps means users should stop using the Google Play store....