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While security researchers and companies go through the collection of hacking tools contained in the data dump that the Shadow Brokers failed to sell, Symantec has tied …

When 156 emergency sirens in Dallas started wailing around midnight last Friday, the city’s 911 line was flooded with calls by panicked citizens who wanted to know what …

Animal tracking through electronic tagging has helped researchers gain insight into the lives of many wild animal species, but can also be misused by wildlife poachers, …

Has Phineas Fisher, the person (or group) behind the Gamma International and Hacking Team breaches and data leaks, been caught? According to Catalan news outfit ARA, three …

Since last year’s revelation that attackers have compromised SWIFT software of Bangladesh’s central bank and used it to perform fraudulent transfers worth tens of …

A group of researchers has discovered that it’s not that difficult for a “weak adversary” with limited resources and capabilities to fiddle with or even shut …

The extradition order for British hacker Lauri Love has been signed on Monday by the UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd, and Love has 14 days to appeal the decision. The 31-year-old …

A Tennessee man has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for launching cyber attacks on corporations, universities and governmental entities throughout the …

With just a month left until the 2016 United States presidential election, the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence officially …

As the day when US citizens cast a vote for their preferred presidential nominee quickly approaches, the issue of whether the actual voting process can be tampered with is a …

Last week, US Senator Ron Wyden took the floor of the Senate to explain why his (and his colleagues’) Stopping Mass Hacking Act should be voted in. The bill, consisting …

Google has issued a challenge to bug hunters around the world: find a vulnerability or bug chain that achieves remote code execution on multiple Android devices knowing only …