Blame game follows Uber hack. Experts say don’t fault employee.
The Uber hack may be a lesson in poor security design and points to problems with vulnerable multi-factor authentication.
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Twitter, tightening security, stops requiring phone numbers for authentication
The move comes after hackers infiltrated Twitter CEO Jack Dorey's account.
A Chinese hacking group breached a telecom to monitor targets’ texts, phone metadata
The timing of the attack coincides roughly with the pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong.
Twitter: We accidentally used security data to target users with ads
Twitter does not know how many people were impacted by the error.
Cutely named apps siphon user data from phones
Here's a reminder of the ease with which crooks can hide their malware in popular app hubs.
Android spyware in the Google Play Store was downloaded over 1 million times over 3 years
A piece of malware pretending to be an Android system update was downloaded over 1 million times since launch 2014. The malware, dubbed SMSVova, spied on a…
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Facebook’s instant verification still relies on insecure SMS authentication
Facebook's instant verification is potentially a significant user experience step forward. But it still falls back on SMS verification, which is widely seen as insecure and worth…
Despite NIST’s warnings, SMS still being used for two-factor authentication
Six months after SMS authentication was deemed insecure, little has changed, according to a new report from Duo Security.