Google is testing a new password-less authentication mechanism that could see a user's smartphone act as a key for logging into the company's services online.
Here's how to find out and fix if your Netflix account is hacked. McAfee Labs is reporting about a hack where hackers are selling access to compromised Netflix accounts for as little as a dollar a time. Read on for more details.
Some of Dell laptops have been found with Superfish-like SSL certificate called eDellRoot, which opens up users to all manner of SSL attacks.
Here are step by step instructions on how to enable two-step verification on your Amazon account right now. This is an important security feature, stop everything and enable it as soon as possible.
Apple lawyers has told a judge in the United States District Court circuit that unlocking an iPhone with the intention of accessing the files and data stored on it would be "impossible" if its running one of the latest versions of iOS; 8.0 - 9.x. Those representing Apple did however admit that the company does have the technical ability to assist law enforcement officials in individual cases when it comes to unlocking older devices that are running less secure and less advanced versions of its mobile platform, that is versions below iOS 8.0.
It seems that a day or two can't go by at the moment without another security researcher or research company finding vulnerabilities in the world's leading mobile platforms. Two security researchers who have been undertaking work on behalf of the French government have discovered a new clever way for hackers to gain control of an iOS or Android device by tapping into the platform's digital assistants, Siri and Google Now.
The existence of malware on Apple's iOS platform isn't exactly a new thing, contrary to the popular myth that iOS and OS X are bulletproof. With that said, as a mobile platform, iOS is seemingly a lot more secure than the competition, and has historically only come under attack if the device is actually jailbroken, meaning when it has been liberated from the security of Apple's walled garden. Unfortunately, that may no longer be the case thanks to a new strain of malware known as YiSpecter, which has been discovered to attack non-jailbroken iOS devices.
Network operator T-Mobile has confirmed that the data from as many as 15 million of its customer accounts has been affected by a data breach that has taken place on one of its corporate partner's servers. Experian, which operates as one of the world's largest credit monitoring outfit and works in partnership with companies like T-Mobile to process credit checks for new accounts, revealed the huge data breach last night, confirming that it took place on September 15.
As we reported recently, Apple's App Store was a victim of a large-scale attack, infecting a bunch of iPhone and iPad apps, mostly from China, with malware.
A new strain of malware has been detected living in some extremely popular apps on the iOS App Store. XcodeGhost - given the name because of the fact that it's distributed through a malicious build of Apple's Xcode integrated development environment - is the latest malware to befall Apple's iOS App Store, and has been found to exist in the extremely popular WeChat messaging application as well as Didi Kuaidi, the main rival to ride-sharing service Uber in the Chinese market.
