Data Safety and Information Security

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claimed responsibility for the MGM Resorts cyber outage on Tuesday, according to a post by malware archive vx-underground.

Caesars ended up paying tens of million of dollars to the hackers, according to sources, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.

It's not too late to check if a Linux device you use was targeted.

Security organizations like OWASP and the OpenSSF are working to make tooling more accessible and dev-friendly to drive adoption and wider usage.

This article is about the analysis of passkey-readiness and how things have changed from 2022 to 2023. Detailed real-life data that has been gathered over the past 12 months is analyzed. Findings regarding the type of passkeys (synced vs. non-synced), specific operating system and browser combinations are discussed, as well as three sample projects.

Today, we are officially introducing a proof-of-work (PoW) defense for onion services designed to prioritize verified network traffic as a deterrent against denial of service (DoS) attacks with the release of Tor 0.4.8.

AI generated porn is one of the worst sides of the technological advancements. Just like every coin has two sides, just like everything has good as well as

Numerous well-known businesses have had hacking incidents, including NASA, T-Mobile, Dropbox, Quora, Microsoft, eBay, and others

Domain names ending in “.US” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. This is noteworthy because .US is overseen by the U.S. government, which is frequently the…

What is Relationship Based Access Control, when should it be used, how can you implement it in your application, and how can you provide a UI for managing it?

From passwords to passwordless — learn about how to elevate your authentication security.

Examining considerations for safer and more resilient software repositories.

In the case of information security, we need to ask, “What, exactly, are we trying to protect?” Don MacVittie explains.

Barcodes and QR codes feel like they’re everywhere nowadays, but they don’t have to be. Scientists at MIT have developed an invisible tagging system called BrightMarker, which embeds fluorescent tags into objects that can be viewed and tracked through an infrared camera.

In large metropolitan areas, tourists are often easy to spot because they're far more inclined than locals to gaze upward at the surrounding skyscrapers. Security experts say this same tourist dynamic is a dead giveaway in virtually all computer intrusions…

Some best practices and important defenses to prevent common attacks against GitHub Actions that are enabled by stolen personal access tokens, compromised accounts, or compromised GitHub sessions.

Open Software Supply Chain Attack Reference, an open source framework, provides actionable insights into attacker behaviors and techniques.

Trellix bods say it's not that hard to do, thanks to these vulnerabilities

Foolish Kubernetes misconfigurations continue to lead to major security foul-ups.

Scientists successfully taught advanced neural network sophisticated Darknet slang recognition capabilities

One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working these days. Like attaching a phishing email to a traditional, clean email message, or leveraging link redirects…

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service…

We’re in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook. However, this new environment comes with challenges and risks for user privacy, so we need to get it right and make sure networks like the Fediverse and Bluesky are mindful of past...

Developers and security teams should work together toward a scalable, flexible, multilayered approach for any type of workload in any environment.

This memo contains the thoughts and recountings of events that transpired during and after the release of information about the United States National Security Agency (NSA) by Edward Snowden in 2013. There are four perspectives: that of someone who was involved with sifting through the information to responsibly inform the public, that of a security area director of the IETF, that of a human rights expert, and that of a computer science and affiliate law professor. The purpose of this memo is to provide some historical perspective, while at the same time offering a view as to what security and privacy challenges the technical community should consider. These essays do not represent a consensus view, but that of the individual authors.