The body of software entrepreneur John McAfee remained at a morgue in Spain Thursday a year after his death as a legal case filed by his family, who do not believe he committed suicide, is yet to be resolved.
Cryptographers at Swiss university ETH Zurich have found at least five exploitable security flaws in the privacy-themed MEGA cloud storage service and warned that the issues could lead to “devastating attacks on the confidentiality and integrity of user data in the MEGA cloud.”
Europol announced on Tuesday that police have dismantled a cybercrime group that made millions of euros through phishing and other types of schemes.
The United States on Thursday announced the takedown of a botnet operated by Russian cybercriminals that ensnared millions of devices worldwide.
Interpol announced on Wednesday that many individuals have been arrested and a significant amount of criminal assets have been seized as part of an international law enforcement operation targeting social engineering schemes.
Security researchers at Lookout have analyzed a sophisticated Android spyware family that appears to have been created to serve nation-state customers.
A former CIA software engineer charged with causing the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history defended himself at the start of his trial Tuesday, telling jurors he was falsely accused and the victim of a political witch hunt.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it’s acquiring Miburo, a New York-based cyber threat analysis and research company that specializes in foreign information operations.
Miburo provides analysis, consulting and training services. The startup’s research team detects and attributes influence campaigns across over a dozen languages.
L3 Technologies, a U.S. government contractor that sells aerospace and defense technology, has emerged as a suitor for Israeli exploit merchant NSO Group.
A group of academic researchers from the University of Hamburg in Germany has discovered that mobile devices leak identifying information about their owners via Wi-Fi probe requests.
Mobile devices use these probe requests to receive information about nearby Wi-Fi access points and establish connections to them when a probe response is received.
