Lasers help generate a quantum state that changes when anyone eavesdrops on it China has successfully sent "hack-proof" messages from a satellite to Earth for the first time. The Micius satellite beamed messages to two mountain-top receiving stations 645 km (400 miles) and 1,200 km away. The message...

Over 800 different Android apps that have been downloaded millions of times from Google Play Store found to be infected with malicious ad library that silently collects sensitive user data and can perform dangerous operations. Dubbed "Xavier," the malicious ad library, initially emerged in September 2016, is a...

A new Android-rooting malware with an ability to disable device’ security settings in an effort to perform malicious tasks in the background has been detected on the official Play Store.What's interesting? The app was smart enough to fool Google security mechanism by first pretending itself to be a clean...

Yesterday's global ransomware attack was scary for several reasons, but quick action by a security researcher at MalwareTech at least put an end to its spreading — although the researcher didn't realize it at the time. The whole story is here, but the gist is this. The ransomware,...

(CREDIT: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) Look sharp, Mac users. There's another emerging threat headed your way, and it's capable of eavesdropping on all of your web browsing... Even if you browse sites using an HTTPS connection and the lock icon in your browser's address bar is green. Researchers at...

The Air Force announced today that it will launch a bug bounty next month for several of its public-facing websites, allowing hackers to seek out vulnerabilities in the sites and exchange them for cash rewards. Over the past year, the federal government has slowly started to open up...

A team of researchers at Newcastle University in the U.K. has published a paper highlighting some troubling findings linking on-board sensors with privacy issues. Using data collected by mobile devices’ hardware tracking systems, the team was able to crack four digit-PINs with 70 percent accuracy on the first...

It’s been 28 years since Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his original proposal for the world wide web. To mark the occasion, the Web Foundation founder has written a blog post highlighting what he believes are the three challenges facing the internet today. While Berners-Lee says the modern web mostly lives...

Simply slotting your card into an ATM machine is no-longer safe as ATM skimmers have gotten just a bit smarter. New devices called Shimmers can now read your card number and, in certain instances, access your card’s chip. While the technique isn’t new – Shimmers began appearing in...