Security

Why smartphone encryption has law enforcement feathers ruffled

There’s a downside to Android and iOS’s privacy-enhancing encryption—it’s going to be harder to catch criminals, police say.

Exploit allows Asus routers to be hacked from local network

Vectra Networks correlates odd bits of user behavior that signal an attack in progress

Behavioral analysis is used to identify and correlate incidents that, taken individually, might be ignored.

Glitch in OS X search can expose private details of Apple Mail users

Akamai predicts more cheap hacking toolkits, political attacks next year

We'll be seeing more severe vulnerabilities like Shellshock and Heartbleed in 2015

Using spellcheck? Electromagnetic fields could reveal your writing

CryptoWall ransomware variant has new defenses

Advanced notice of Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes is no longer free

Only customers with premiere support contracts get to see bulletin summary ahead of time

GameZone, Huffington Post hit by malvertising attack

Criminals hijacked ads on AOL's Advertising.com network

FTC chairwoman speaks on IoT security

FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez takes the stage at CES to caution vendors in the hot IoT space to bake in security and privacy controls, and to give users options to limit data collection.