Explore the question of SMS encryption to find out whether text messages are end-to-end encrypted or not and look into potential alternatives.

A Disney employee downloaded what they thought was a safe add-on for video game BeamNG.drive, but it was anything but.

Google’s Chrome password manager makes security easier. Until a bug makes your passwords disappear, that is. Here’s what you need to know.

The Minnesota-based spyware maker Spytech snooped on thousands of devices before it was hacked earlier this year.

You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.

Security awareness company KnowBe4 noticed something was fishy when the employee's company-issued Mac began loading malware.

What caused so many PCs running Windows to crash into the Blue Screen of Death? Could it happen to our Macs too?

McAfee's anti-virus software is erroneously detecting legitimate Windows system files as malicious, causing reboot loops and serious stability problems for many Windows XP users, according to multiple reports.

Research teams across the nation are working on better ways to more accurately identify subjects outdoors and from a distance.

A faulty CrowdStrike update in July affected 8.5 million Windows devices around the world.

My little Pwnie award.

Here is a look back at the top security research from the annual hacker conferences, Black Hat and Def Con 2024.

we got an ~RCE on M365 Copilot by sending an email

by ~RCE I mean full remote control over
its actions - search for sensitive content (sharepoint, email, calendar, teams), execute plugins
and outputs - bypass DLP controls, manipulate references, social…

This demo shows how attackers can abuse Copilot for Microsoft 365 to bypass information protection sensitivity labels and access sensitive information without leaving any trace behind; helping security leaders and red teamers craft a strategy to mitigate…

The code curation considerations of removing abandoned protocols in OpenSSL, kernel driver lessons from CrowdStrike's crash, choosing isolation primitives, cross-cache attacks made possible by SLUBStick, and more!

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Elon Musk is the most famous CEO of Tesla, but he's not the company's founder. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded the company in 2003 and were the original executives. CNBC sat down with them to talk about the idea for Tesla Motors, the battery,…