privacy

The Apple iCloud nude celebrity photo fiasco underscores the uncomfortable reality that even the savvy among us aren’t totally sure about what goes on and into “the Cloud.”

Don’t want your private photos or credit card posted somewhere on the web? You should rethink your approach to cloud services then.

Brian Donohue and Chris Brook recap the month’s security headlines from its beginnings at Black Hat and DEFCON, to a bizarre PlayStation Network outage.

Beware of phishing, malware, spam and other online scams based on the extremely popular ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

Sextortion is one way online predators can steal your sensitive data and use it to harm you.

Community Health Systems breach exposes the Social Security numbers of 4.5 million patients. Were you a victim? If so, how do you react?

We have bought our very own Blackphone to check its security firsthand.

A recap of last week’s security news and research from the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Losing your work or personal data is a computing worst case scenario. While there is no shortage of ways you can lose your data, there are also a number of protections that can help.

Yahoo plans to implement end-to-end encryption for all of its mail users, giving normal, non-technical users the power to communicate securely and privately.

In the news this week: more APT campaigns, a look forward at the DEF CON and Black Hat Hacker conferences, and good and bad news for Facebook.

Your iPhone runs hidden monitoring services. Who uses them, and for what purpose?

If you think that threat isn’t real, ask Miss Teen USA 2013, whose webcam was hacked into and used to take nude photos of her.

The list of highly touted devices that have been launched in recent years with embarrassing flaws – security and otherwise – is long and distinguished.

The first summer month brought us news about the eternal confrontation of law enforcements and cybercriminals. Let’s see who was busted in June.

June was a busy month with hacks and data breaches, privacy, cryptography, and mobile security news, and an update on OpenSSL Heartbleed.

There were long time rumors about iPhone malware used to spy on smartphone owners, but now it’s official ―Kaspersky Lab researchers discovered a real life sample of this Trojan.

Discussing security and the privacy strengths and weaknesses in the Apple’s soon-to-be-released iOS 8.

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

Feds take down the Gameover botnet, there’s more trouble for OpenSSL, Google publishes data on global Gmail encryption, and Edward Snowden’s first NSA revelation came out one year ago.

Data breaches seemed to dominate the security news in May, but mobile ransomware emerged as well and there was good and bad privacy news from the tech giants.