Amazon users are always a prime target for hackers, every pun intended, although it is usually phishing attacks that make the headlines. But what if I were to tell you that your Kindle could be used ...

Hackers stole a trove of data from a company used by major Wall Street banks for real-estate loans and mortgages, setting off a scramble to determine what was taken and which banks were affected, ...

Thousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group following the breach of a major ...

In 1969, a now-iconic commercial first popped the question, “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” This deceptively simple line in a 30-second script managed ...

Worried that hackers got access to your Ring cameras on May 28? The “May 28 Ring camera hack” videos have been all over TikTok in recent days, but Ring asserts that the hacking fears are unfounded.

More than 184 million passwords may have been exposed in a massive data breach that experts are calling a “cybercriminal’s dream.” According to a new report by cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler ...

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There are plenty of people, for plenty of reasons, who really don’t want to sign into their copy of Windows 11 using a Microsoft account, no matter how seamless an experience this brings to the ...

On Feb. 21, 2025, attackers exploited vulnerabilities in Bybit’s cold wallet infrastructure, siphoning off $1.5 billion in Ethereum in the largest exchange hack to date. Investigations linked the ...

In the nascent field of AI hacking, indirect prompt injection has become a basic building block for inducing chatbots to exfiltrate sensitive data or perform other malicious actions. Developers of ...

The Biden administration is beginning to retaliate against China for its sweeping hack of U.S. telecommunications companies earlier this year. Last week the Commerce Department issued a notice to ...

Think you can hack your way into an Apple server? If so, you could score as much as $1 million courtesy of a new bug bounty. On Thursday, Apple revealed a challenge to test the security of the servers ...