A cybersecurity researcher says he discovered a massive data leak that compromised the online credentials of millions of internet users.

This week's stories show how fast attackers change their tricks, how small mistakes turn into big risks, and how the same old tools keep finding new ways to break in. Read on to catch up before the ...

Last Friday, a report from Malwarebytes claimed that data from nearly 17.5 million Instagram accounts is being sold on the dark web. The report cited multiple user reports claiming suspicious password ...

Unfortunately, when it was created, there was essentially no "web" per-se, as Berners-Lee had only come up with the http/etc stuff a few years earlier, and it was hard to foresee then how it would be ...

SEOUL — Four people have been charged in South Korea with hacking into tens of thousands of private video cameras in homes and businesses in search of sexually exploitative footage, authorities said ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered vulnerable code in legacy Python packages that could potentially pave the way for a supply chain compromise on the Python Package Index (PyPI) via a domain ...

The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 along party lines on Thursday to scrap rules that required U.S. phone and internet giants to meet certain minimum cybersecurity requirements. The FCC’s ...

Earlier this month, security guru Troy Hunt added a staggering two billion unique email addresses and 1.3 billion unique passwords to his Have I Been Pwned and Pwned Passwords databases. Aggregated by ...

WiFi Password Cracker is a Python script that retrieves saved WiFi profiles and their passwords on a Windows machine. It uses the netsh command to access and display this information. The script uses ...

Youtuber Zack D Films’ latest video has been going viral since its release on November 13. With over 6 million views and counting, it’s making waves across the internet. So, what’s the hack—and why is ...

When it comes to cybersecurity, are we our own worst enemies? This past week showed us that you can patch software—but you can't patch human nature. I've been writing and editing stories for almost ...