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What is email spoofing?
Attempts at online theft often start with a phishing scheme -- and phishing attempts often rely on email spoofing. Here's how spoofing works and how to spot it.
Sophisticated ‘Triton’ malware shuts down industrial plant in hacker attack
Hackers successfully breached the security at an unnamed industrial facility, but were unable to gain control of the safety controls.
Patch your HP laptops — the keyboard may have a keylogger installed
A security researcher has discovered a disabled (but viable) keylogger in HP laptops' keyboard driver that affects hundreds of machines.
Three generations of Intel processors are vulnerable to management engine bug
A flaw discovered in multiple generations of Intel CPUs has left many millions of PC users facing vulnerable to management engine bugs.
Newly discovered Android virus can wreck your phone, cover its tracks
New malware has been discovered in a game on the Play Store that inserts itself into the Android system library for unprecedented access.
About 8,400 new Android malware files are discovered every day, report says
According to a new report, a new malicious Android file is discovered every 10 seconds -- so 8,400 new files are discovered every day.
Plug the USG into your port before you plug in that new USB flash drive
A new hardware firewall USG device is intended to help protect against USB-based malware attacks, and you can build one yourself.
A pretend Pornhub app is infecting Android phones with malware
It's almost too ironic to be true. Porn is giving smartphones a virus that locks their users out of their handsets.
New Android virus poses as an Adobe Flash Player update
A newly discovered strain of Android malware spreads by posing as an update to Adobe's Flash Player web plugin.
Malware infections in corporate-owned cloud folders almost triple in three months
Cloud security firm Netskope has discovered more than twice as many malware infested shared files this month than last.
No cure yet cure for Zika or Ebola? IBM is seeking the answer for all viruses
IBM Research and Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) announced a breakthrough to fight viral diseases like Zika and Ebola.
Don’t have a meltdown, but German officials just found malware in a nuclear reactor
Workers at a German nuclear power plant discovered a wealth of viruses on a system used for monitoring fuel rods, but an air gap left the malware dormant.
With no vaccine available, biologists consider using controversial 'gene-drive' technique to stop Zika
A gene drive to introduce DNA changes to the aedes aegypti mosquito could remove the threat of Zika virus, but is packed with ecological controversy.
Unknown hacker infects malware with anti-virus program
Beware the Dridex trojan! It might install the Avira anti-virus program, thanks to a dedicated white-hat hacker.
Poorly written malware demands a ransom, but never releases your files
It's usually not a good idea to pay the ransom on a virus, but a newly discovered strain forgets the encryption key as soon as it finishes locking files.
FDA approves use of bioengineered Herpes virus as cancer treatment
The US Food and Drug Administration this week approved a novel viral drug therapy for cancer that uses a genetically engineered form of the Herpes virus.
So much for the unhackable Mac: Root exploit hits the wild with no fix in sight
Some might have you believe that Macs can't get viruses, but the newest root exploit was spotted by researchers being used to install several malicious apps
New $25 blood test can tell you every virus you’ve ever had
You might not care to know all the illnesses you've ever had, but that kind of information is invaluable to virologists.
I’m in the empire business: Breaking Bad themed malware
A new piece of malware is using the name of a popular restaurant from TV's Breaking Bad as the label for its dirty deeds.
Over 250 Flappy Bird clones reportedly contain malware
According to security firm McAfee, 80 percent of Flappy Bird clones contain some kind of malware.
Researchers find best time for hackers to strike
Two University of Michigan researchers took a look at multiple hacking variables.