The browser is increasingly becoming the central application on the PC. Today, users not only open their browsers to view websites, but also to work with office applications such as Word and Excel or Google…
LinkedIn has a new chief information security officer, Lea Kissner. Announcing the appointment in a LinkedIn post (fittingly), Kissner said they are “excited” to take on the new role. Kissner most recently served as CISO at…
Six popular Microsoft apps for the Mac have security vulnerabilities that could allow a hacker to “gain any privileges already granted to the affected Microsoft applications,” according to a report by Cisco Talos. The apps affected are…
Flight tracking site FlightAware has blamed a “configuration error” for exposing a raft of personal information of its customers, including some of their Social Security numbers. The company, which claims to be one of the…
Recently, Microsoft released a Windows update on the down low that mainly fixes a major problem in Microsoft Defender Antivirus. This was first spotted and reported by Neowin. The update, called Security Intelligence Update version…
The free Foxit PDF Reader has just been updated to version 2024.2.3 for Windows. There are also corresponding updates for the premium Foxit PDF Editor, which does more than just read PDFs and sits among…
Thousands of hackers, researchers and security professionals descended on the Black Hat and Def Con security conferences in Las Vegas this week, an annual pilgrimage aimed at sharing the latest research, hacks, and knowledge across…
A person claiming to be a student in Singapore publicly posted documentation showing lax security in a widely popular school mobile device management service called Mobile Guardian, weeks before a cyberattack on the company resulted…
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Solid antivirus protection Comprehensive protection against online threats Cons Notable performance impact on some PCs User interface is a little scattered Many of the tools and services feel a…
A security researcher says six companies were saved from having to pay potentially hefty ransom demands, in part thanks to rookie security flaws found in the web infrastructure used by the ransomware gangs themselves. Two…