Paul Wagenseil

LAS VEGAS — At least five major security flaws involving Microsoft's Cortana personal-assistant software have been discovered in the past few months, Israeli security researchers told the Black Hat se...

Intel will put hardware fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown security flaws on the next generation of its chips, CEO Brian Krzanich said in an Intel blog posting yesterday (March 15)."We have redesigned...

A widespread phishing scam involving Google Docs made its way across the internet today (May 3), with multiple Twitter users and at least two Reddit threads documenting spam messages coming from "hhh...

Google has just rolled out a new Chrome browser extension that warns you if a username-password combination has been compromised in a data breach. Called Password Checkup, the extension is availa...

A new strain of Mac ransomware will encrypt files on your Mac's hard drive and demand that you pay about $700 to (maybe) get them back. A strain of Mac spyware created by the same author aims to captu...

Authentication hardware maker Yubico today (Sept. 25) unveiled the YubiKey 4C Nano, a tiny device that plugs into USB-C ports, at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla."Two-factor authentica...

Apple has finally woken up and smelled the coffee about the Flashback Trojan epidemic."Apple is developing software that will detect and remove the Flashback malware," the company said in a brief secu...

Imagine you're playing with your young daughter when suddenly your iPhone goes blank. You check your iPad, but it's been wiped clean too.You run to your laptop, and catch it erasing all its own data. ...

Yahoo's recently announced plan to recycle unused IDs has stirred up a hornet's nest in the security community, with one tech journalist predicting a "gold rush" of identity theft.However, most of ...

Sneaky Samsung! On Tuesday (Jan. 5), at the same time that it unveiled its ultra-thin Notebook 9 Windows laptops, the Korean electronics maker quietly announced the Samsung Chromebook 3, its latest ...

Is Microsoft spying on Windows 10 users who don't want to be spied on? Some Reddit users think so, but there may be an innocent, if confusing, explanation.Credit: Thaneree Deepul/ShutterstockThe April...

Asus finally issued a statement today (March 26) regarding the hacking of its own firmware-update servers, more than 24 hours after Vice Motherboard and Kaspersky Lab publicly disclosed the issue and ...

A newly discovered malware attack affects all versions of Windows, often isn't detected by antivirus software and can't be patched. This isn't a riddle: it's the Process Doppelganging attack, which w...

Mathematicians based in Switzerland and the United States have discovered a small but substantial flaw in some of the most commonly used digital encryption schemes, a flaw that could undermine the sec...

UPDATED 9:30 a.m. Tuesday Nov. 24 with additional information.Dell may be selling some Windows laptops with a dangerous security flaw that could allow hackers to access your computer. Users have repor...

Apple laptop batteries can be hacked to infect the laptop with malware, or possibly even rigged to explode, a well-known security researcher has found.All modern laptop batteries have logic chips insi...

Google has revealed details about a pretty serious flaw in Microsoft's Edge web browser, but Microsoft won't be able to fix the problem until the middle of March.The flaw lets attackers bypass an Edge...

Here's a modern-day question: Why are Nigerian con-man emails so obvious?Because that makes sure only stupid people will respond to them, says Microsoft security analyst Cormac Herley in a newly re...

Mat Honan, the technology reporter who was digitally disemboweled this past weekend, has revealed exactly how he was so spectacularly owned. His case, a cascade of security failures that involved four...

Microsoft has pushed out an out-of-band, i.e. emergency, update to all Windows users to resolve a serious security flaw in Internet Explorer -- and the printing problem that was caused by the first ve...

UPDATED with comment from Dell and extra information from SafeBreach.Millions of Dell computers running Windows, and possibly many more computers made by other brands, are vulnerable to a flaw in thei...

This may be a rude awakening for Windows Hello users: Microsoft's much-vaunted biometric-authentication feature can be fooled by a low-resolution grayscale photo.Researchers at German penetration-test...

This month's round of Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates was just released, and there's a pretty serious flaw that affects all Microsoft operating systems earlier than Windows 8.Windows 7 and it...

"2018 is barely two weeks old, and already it looks like we've got new piece of macOS malware! Hooray :)"That's how Apple-focused security researcher Patrick Wardle opened a blog post yesterday (Jan. ...