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Funtenna Malware Takes to the Airwaves to Steal Data

LAS VEGAS—Airwaves are used every day to transmit data via known wireless protocols, but what if a device could be manipulated to cause it...

Mozilla Blocks Flash in Firefox Thanks to Unpatched Zero-Days

With two currently unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities in Adobe's Flash Player, Mozilla has decided that enough is enough and it's blocking Flash usage in the...

How the Wild Neutron Hacker Group Avoids Detection

The hacker group known as Wild Neutron is still actively attacking companies around the world, a number of years after the group was first...

OpenSSL Patches for ‘Boring’ Certificate Risk

The open-source OpenSSL cryptographic library project came out today with a high-severity security advisory and patched a single vulnerability, identified as CVE-2015-1793. OpenSSL is...

Adobe Patches 36 Flaws, Including a Zero-Day, in Flash Player

If you use Adobe Flash (and you probably do), it's time to update (again). Adobe came out today with the APSB15-16 security bulletin providing...

Alex Stamos, Yahoo Security Expert, Moves to Facebook

Alex Stamos, the outspoken chief information security officer (CISO) at Yahoo, is leaving to take on a new job as chief security officer (CSO)...

Syrian Electronic Army Took Aim at U.S. Army Website

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a digital hacking group loosely aligned with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is claiming responsibility for an...

Why U.S. Government HTTPS-Only Mandate for Federal Sites Is Key

The U.S. government is taking a major step to secure its online assets with a new directive from the White House Office of Management...

FBI Warrant Probes Claim of United Airlines In-Flight Control Hack

Security researcher Chris Roberts is in the news again, a month after he was denied access to a United Airlines flight after posting a...

WordPress Quickly Patches Zero-Day Comment Flaw

The open-source WordPress content management system (CMS) on April 27 issued an emergency update, patching a new zero-day vulnerability that might have exposed users...