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The Java plug-in is finally going to meet its long-awaited demise
Chastity Mansfield
It’s been more than two decades since Oracle decided to start plaguing web browsers with its Java plug-in, but it looks like it’s time for Oracle to finally kill it off. Its death…
Professional hacking is starting to become a viable career
In a time where malicious hackers are constantly looking for vulnerabilities in popular software and websites that they can exploit, companies are willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money to…
Stolen Uber accounts are worth more than stolen credit cards
Carl Durrek
Stolen credit cards are great and all, but the real money-makers on the dark web these days are stolen accounts for services like PayPal and Uber. According to Trend Micro, stolen…
Automakers are joining forces to prevent connected car hacking
Alfie Joshua
There haven’t been any major cyber attacks on connected cars yet, but numerous security researchers have proven that hacking cars is dangerously easy, and have called upon automakers and governments…
The Tor Project is about to launch its own bug bounty program
For the average Internet users, Tor is easily the most-effective tool for maintaining anonymity and bypassing government censorship, and this is due in large part to the fact that the…
Microsoft now alerts users to government-sponsored cyber attacks
Ever since Google started notifying its users when they were targeted by government-sponsored cyber attacks back in 2012, many companies in the technology industry have followed suit, especially after the…
Anonymous hacked the European Space Agency for no reason
The online hacking group known as Anonymous can be amusing at times, and occasionally even admirable, but most of the time it’s just annoyingly immature, and it’s most-recent hack definitely puts it…
America and China are working towards cybersecurity cooperation
Cybersecurity is easily one of the biggest sources of tension between China and the United States, and it’s one that the two nations have slowly started to address. A few…
Windows Phone is the most secure mobile operating system out there
Sal McCloskey
If there’s one thing that Windows Phone has over Android and iOS, and it’s probably the only things, it’s security. Steve Lord, who has worked as a hacker and security…
Zerodium just awarded hackers a million bucks for breaking into iOS 9
Louie Baur
Zerodium is an interesting company. It makes its money by purchasing exploits and security information regarding popular software, and then selling them to the highest bidder, whether that bidder be…
Not even the FBI knows how to combat ransomware
Ransomware, for those of you who aren’t familiar, is a popular way for hackers to extort money from Internet users by encrypting important information on their computer and demanding that…
China already broke its pledge to stop hacking American corporations
I’m sure you remember that big cybersecurity agreement that China and the United States made a few weeks ago, and I’m sure you’ll also remember how virtually nobody actually expected…
Facebook now warns users of government-sponsored cyberattacks
Jesseb Shiloh
It’s sad how much of a threat government-sponsored hacking has become, but that’s the world we live in, and at least there are companies and organizations out there that are doing something…
China is now arresting hackers at the request of the United States
China and the United States reached some important agreements and understandings regarding cybersecurity last month, but a lot of people are worried that it was all just meaningless talk with…
Hackers can use an MP3 to hack into almost any Android device
Another month, another massive Android vulnerability that puts hundreds of millions of smartphone users at risk. The vulnerability is being called Stagefright 2.0 because of how many devices it encompasses,…
America and China have reached a cyber-espionage undertsanding
It looks like President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping have reached a “common understanding” regarding cyber-espionage between the two countries. Both countries have vowed to never conduct or knowingly support the theft of intellectual property…
America and China are setting ground rules for cyberwarfare
Back when Russia and the United States were the top dogs, both countries were afraid of the devastation that a nuclear attack from the other could cause, and set some ground…
Intel is working to make smart cars safe from hackers
Alongside the plethora of useful features that smart cars offer is the ever-present threat of hackers. Security experts have been worrying about the threat that hackers pose to smart cars for years,…
