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White-hat hackers at a security conference in Vancouver have found two zero-day Safari exploits, one of which allowed them to escalate their privileges to the point that they were able to completely take over the Mac … The first exploit managed to escape the sandbox, a protection macOS uses to en
Even the most tech savvy companies in the world can fall for business email compromise. Fifty-year-old Evaldas Rimasauskas registered and incorporated a company in Latvia with the same name as Quanta Computer, a Taiwan-based electronics manufacturing giant that which been operating since the 1980s.
Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
T-Mobile is starting to pilot a wireless home internet service, offering unlimited LTE data to the home for $50 per month. At launch, the service has extremely limited availability.
Finland’s data protection watchdog is investigating Nokia owner HMD over claims its mobiles sent data to Chinese servers.
Google has been fined €1.49bn (£1.28bn) by the European commission for abusing its monopoly in online advertising. The latest fine takes the total the company has been fined by the EU competition commission to €8.
As Amazon steps up its effort to show Wall Street it can generate profits, the e-commerce giant is aggressively blocking money-losing products from advertising on its site.
Websites and businesses across Europe today are protesting controversial changes to online copyright being introduced by the European Union.