Cybersecurity

Go maintainer joins collective klaxon about encryption-breaking quantum computers and urges immediate switch to post-quantum methods to prevent disaster.

The FBI breaks down the $21 billion lost by over a million Americans through online scams, with more than half involving cryptocurrency.

Hacker or hacker group steals secret data concerning aerospace engineering, bioinformatics, fusion modeling from China's National Supercomputing Center.

The UK National Cyber Security Centre says that Russian state hackers have been exploiting vulnerable small office and home office routers since 2024 to overwrite their DHCP and DNS settings

LinkedIn is understood to inject a JavaScript fingerprinting script on every page load that probes visitors' browsers for 6,236 installed Chrome extensions and collects detailed device telemetry.

Cryptocurrencies aren't the only application at risk.

An attacker compromised the npm account of a lead Axios maintainer on March 30, and used it to publish two malicious versions of the widely used JavaScript HTTP client library.

Hong Kong border agents and police can demand device passwords under penalty of imprisonment

CanisterWorm malware wipes Iranian machines for no apparent reason