SquirrelMail suffers from a remote code execution vulnerability that could let attackers execute arbitrary commands on the target and compromise the remote system.

The first large scale Locky campaign in months has been detected via the Necurs botnet.

Scans show tens of thousands of Windows servers infected with the DoublePulsar kernel exploit leaked by the ShadowBrokers two weeks ago.

From Burger King’s Google Home trigger and how tech scammer have made millions to the many vulnerabilities found in Linksys routers, & more!

Spam campaign delivers Locky ransomware that, like a Russian matryoshka doll, is nested inside not one but two layers

Third-party ‘guerilla’ patching can be a good example of the community stepping up to fix flaws – but it could also compromise security

White hat hackers “are in very high demand,” says PwC’s director of cyber investigation and breach response, in a New York Post article titled “Companies are paying millions to get hacked — on purpose.” An anonymous reader quotes their report:…

theodp quotes today’s New York Times profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick: For months, Mr. Kalanick had pulled a fast one on Apple by directing his employees to help camouflage the ride-hailing app from Apple’s engineers. The reason? So Apple…

Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. Now an anonymous Slashdot reader reports on Carr’s newest warning: It seems obvious: The more we learn about other…

An anonymous reader quotes MIT Technology Review: A group of Australian marine scientists believe that altering clouds might offer one of the best hopes for saving the Great Barrier Reef. For the last six months, researchers at the Sydney Institute…