Researchers at Nebula Security discovered a privilege escalation bug in the Linux kernel that's been lying dormant for over 15 years that affects every Linux distribution before version 7.1.
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Google, Lumen, and the FBI have worked in lockstep to disrupt the massive malicious residential proxy network NetNut, also known as Popa, that has its claws in millions of devices.
Attackers are exploiting a new phishing technique to get access to your account from a legitimate Microsoft login page, according to Kaspersky.
ShinyHunters continue to run amock in the latest cascading data breach.
The Sysdig Threat Research Team has discovered what they believe to be the first ever ransomware attack carried out fully end-to-end by agentic AI.
Brave has released a new containers feature to allow you to isolate your browsing between different identities.
Google's reCAPTCHA service will start asking for camera permission to scan your hand in different positions to determine if you're human.
Researchers have discovered six vulnerabilities across Apple's AirDrop and Android's Quick Share file sharing protocols, some of which are zero-clicks.
Fake GTA 6 "early access" sites promise access to the game if you pay hundreds in cryptocurrency, but offer only malware instead.
Framingham, MA has cancelled its contract for Flock Safety cameras after months of extensive public backlash due to privacy concerns.
This week bad luck (or poor planning) struck LastPass, Polymarket, Meta, and an "AI-powered healthcare company."
A court has determined that the US DOJ cannot force Apple and Google to hand over the information of around 100,000 users of the EZ Lynk app.
According to Business Insider, n internal program at Meta to train AI on employees' data is on pause after an internal leak exposing keystrokes, private conversations, and transcriptions.
Kansas City, Missouri is gearing up to equip public buses with facial recognition cameras designed to detect if a rider is on a list of banned or missing people.
The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), creators of the Matter, Zigbee, and Aliro standards for IoT devices, released their new Matter 1.6 and Product Security 1.1 specifications for securing smart homes.
Novo Nordisk, the Knicks, Peter Thiel, and many more are among this week's numerous big names who were breached.
Researchers at Paradigm Shift discovered a new unwatchable vulnerability, dubbed "usbliter8," in Apple's A12, S4/S5, and A13 chips.
A surge of AI-generated patches in the Linux kernel has resulted in the removal of support for older protocols, the latest of which being AppleTalk.
Android 17 has now officially launched, bringing with it a slew of new privacy and security upgrades like the new Contact Picker and post-quantum app signing.
WhatsApp claims they detected and stopped an NSO spyware campaign against its users.
Researchers at Sonatype uncovered a massive supply chain attack against the Arch User Repository (AUR) to harvest credentials and exfiltrate user data by hijacking around 1,500 packages.
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