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The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently graded a slew of mobile and Internet messaging services based on security and privacy. Here we list the low scorers.

Phishing is the most developed form of Internet scamming. Let’s explore the topic in order to better understand why it became so prominent and what measures one can take to avoid a phishing attack.

A new poll shows Americans care overwhelmingly about digital privacy.

Spam levels have dropped globally and it’s not a seasonal fluctuation. There is indeed less spam now in e-mail traffic. Can spam ever be beaten altogether?

Gameover ZeuS botnet is a 3-y.o. headache for security experts and users alike. It took a global operation to dismantle its C&C servers, but experts acknowledge that the botnet will most likely be back in a few weeks. Why is it so hard to beat this Hydra?

These young researchers will shape cyberworld in the next decade.

There was a lot of interesting news about hackers and other cybercriminals, so let’s see who has been busted in May.

Senior Security Researcher David Emm explains exactly what GameOver Zeus means for you, and how you can keep yourself protected.

eBay user passwords compromised in data breach; another Internet Explorer zero-day for Microsoft; Samsung eyes iris authentication; and patches from Chrome.

What Facebook habits make you vulnerable and how to avoid them.

Android devices store data on the SD card and the internal space where apps are kept.

Last week was something of a slow week for those of us that spend our days writing about computer security news. However, while there may not have been an abundance

We’re continuing the series “Small Business Stories”, in which CEOs of small companies talk about the role IT plays in their general activities and in the protection of their information.

Despite recent scandals, RSA is still considered the biggest event in the security industry. It attracts the best brains, the best managers and the best influencers (although Security Analysts Summit is

The WhatsApp acquisition by Facebook made headlines yesterday because of the record sum paid by the social media giant for the messaging startup. That’s a whopping $19 billion for a

For as long as I’ve been working in the security industry, which – in the spirit of full disclosure – hasn’t been a very long time, I have been shocked

We’re officially into the month of December, which means another month of posts has passed. If you missed anything from November, not to worry, we’ve rounded up some highlights to

In the U.S. many organizations offer the day after Thanksgiving, which falls on a Thursday, to their workers as a holiday. Brick and mortar American retailers have capitalized on this

Neverquest is a new banking trojan that spreads itself via social media, email and file transfer protocols. It possesses the capacity to recognize hundreds of online banking and other financial

As the recent NSA leaks have revealed, our digital lives make it very difficult to maintain anonymity and protect our privacy — especially since we tend to make it especially