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Facebook has doubled its grace period because so many leavers are getting cold feet.

The high priests of Wi-Fi just made your life – and the lives of wireless network equipment vendors everywhere – a little easier.

It turns out that drones advertised off the back of beautiful aerial shots also take great videos of murky drug dens.

Technology such as Apple's device trust score that decides you is not you is a good thing. But only if it works well.

The business of fake likes and followers turns out to be a sprawling enterprise — likely tied back to IoT botnet activity.

The latest Building Security in Maturity Model (BSIMM9) report offers a statistically backed, bare-minimum benchmark for software security initiatives.

Threatpost editors discuss the highlights and biggest breaking news from this past week.

D-Link has released the beta version of the controller which addresses the reported vulnerabilities.

Analysis of 20,000 voice phishing, or vishing, calls reveals patterns in how social engineers operate and how targets respond.

A spyware attack on a Saudi dissident living in Canada made headlines this week, but Citizen Lab warns that simpler attacks are the real epidemic.

More than 80% of surveyed routers had, on average, 172 security vulnerabilities, new research shows.

Software patching becomes a new reality for smart TV owners.

FireEye CEO and nation-state hacking expert Kevin Mandia says Russia began changing the game in 2015.