January 8, 2017 Hack-proof your life: 5 key steps to boost your safety online Follow these five steps to boost your safety online instantly.
January 6, 2017 TV news report prompts viewers' Amazon Echo devices to order unwanted dollhouses A TV news report in San Diego about the child that accidentally ordered a dollhouse via Amazon’s Alexa inadvertently set off some viewers’ Echo devices, which in turn tried to order dollhouses using Alexa.
January 5, 2017 Symantec doubles down on network security with the Norton Core, a stylish home router Securing your home network has become more important than ever, especially if you found a new smart-home device under the Christmas tree this year, and Symantec plans to help you out with a cool geodesic-dome-shaped router.
January 5, 2017 Old-school security goes modern: BenjiLock brings fingerprint tech to the padlock BenjiLock's forthcoming device will allow users to utilize up to four distinct fingerprints when it launches in the third quarter of 2017.
December 27, 2016 Sony Music apologizes for Britney Spears RIP tweets Oops, Sony did it again. Got hacked that is.
December 27, 2016 The FBI is now probing FDIC hacks allegedly carried out by the Chinese military The FBI is investigating how hackers managed to make their way into computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Unfortunately, this isn't a new case -- it's been going on since at least 2010.
December 23, 2016 Government requests for Facebook data up 27 percent More than half of the requests came from US law enforcement agencies.
December 22, 2016 In Ukraine, more evidence of a hacking group's Kremlin ties For those searching for stronger evidence of Russia's connection to the hack of the Democratic National Committee, the tale of an infected Ukrainian Android cellphone app may help, according to a cybersecurity firm.
December 21, 2016 Netflix US Twitter account hacked by OurMine The group posted a number of messages promoting its own Web security services from the Netflix account.
December 15, 2016 One-billion-user Yahoo breach: What to do now If you held one of the billion Yahoo accounts that were compromised in a 2013 data breach, we're sorry.