A hole in the supposed closed-loop messaging system allowed children to join group chats with people their parents hadn’t approved.

Apple released fixes for various products this week, including one for a bug that has been public with proof-of-concept code for two months.

Virtual private networking is poised to become more automated and intelligent, especially as endpoints associated with cloud services and the IoT need protection.

Do you travel to dangerous places, like Information Security Conferences?

The 787 Dreamliner, WhatsApp, and Windows 10 are all subjects of cutting-edge Reverse Engineering talks at this year's August event.

In the second of a two part series discussing recent ransomware attacks against municipalities, Shawn Taylor with Forescout talks about how cities can protect themselves.

Malware that used to be advanced is now available to everyone. These three actions could help you stay safer.

An inside look at staffing levels, budget allocation, outsourcing habits, and the metrics used by security operations centers (SOCs).

Make sure you're only pulling down signed Docker images with Content Trust enabled.

Make sure you're only pulling down signed Docker images with Content Trust enabled.

Read about the saga of Facebook's failures in ensuring privacy for user data, including how it relates to Cambridge Analytica, the GDPR, the Brexit campaign, and the 2016 US presidential election.

DEF CON's Voting Village and AI Village team up with r00tz Asylum to let kids explore simulated campaign financial disclosure portals and disinformation campaigns.

Researchers have linked the surveillance tool to a Russian tech firm that has been sanctioned for interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

As IIoT (Industrial IoT) systems continue to interact with enterprise systems and business processes, a new guide offers a set of best practices to securing them.

IoT botnet—made up mainly of routers—hit a service provider with nearly 300,000 requests-per-second in a 13-day deluge of data.

This week's stories from TechRepublic and ZDNet include AI's influence on retail, the onslaught of malicious emails, and a look at why 50% of employees aren't satisfied.

This week's stories from TechRepublic and ZDNet include AI's influence on retail, the onslaught of malicious emails, and a look at why 50% of employees aren't satisfied.

Anne Neuberger will lead the directorate, which aims to bring together the NSA's offensive and defensive operations.

Meanwhile, remediation times are ballooning to a year or more in the case of malicious attacks, according to Ponemon Institute.

The sooner a company can detect and respond to an incident, the less likely they are to pay for it, a new IBM-Ponemon study finds.