Priv esc exploit makes hackers admin from Windows 2000 and up

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The latest surveillance tech from Israel "will open a new era in data interception," says the CEO of profitable but troubled snoop supplier Ability. It's sitting on the "golden key of surveillance" with a $20M product.

No fix available for critical flaw that's been under attack since last week.

In the most recent round of cyber attacks against the Iranian official sites at least 50 websites belonging to Iran’s Foreign Ministry were hacked on June 1.

Akamai is warning of DDOS attacks leveraging leveraging the TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) protocol.

Surveillance and hacking tools are becoming increasingly popular among a wide range of nations, many of which use the methods to monitor, silence and punish their critics.

Europe's biggest annual information security conference returns to London this week. Here's my pick of the top Infosec Europe sessions, with topics ranging from cybercrime and incident response to EU regulations and the Internet of Things.

It's the latest in a string of historical hacks targeting large social networking sites.

Angler exploit kit bypasses Microsoft’s EMET security tool with cleverly designed Flash and Silverlight exploits

Hack of Facebook CEO's Twitter and Pinterest accounts may be related to a massive hack of LinkedIn from 2012.

A security researcher earned $10,000 through Uber’s bug bounty program for reporting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting a third party WordPress plugin.

We chat about the effects of Snowden's leaks, as well as Mark Zuckerberg's social-media accounts getting hacked and Sprint's new pitchman.

Victims were infected with a spyware named Android/SpyChat

The theft of an unencrypted laptop that may have contained information on up to 400,000 inmates who served time in California prisons has been added to the federal