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Last week, crooks hacked one of the HandBrake app’s download servers and used the popular video app to distribute Mac spyware.

Despite facial recognition and other technology, it’s still a gruelling cat-and-mouse game for investigators

Our researchers have found more than 50 apps in Google Play that contain XavirAd, which says it doesn’t collect your personal information and then promptly sucks it up and sends it back to the mothership

Carmakers are going to have to get much better at securing their vehicles now that the researchers who demonstrated how to hack a Cherokee Jeep added their notes to the tools already online

New submitter troublemaker_23 quotes a report from ITWire: Only 36% of software engineers in India can write compilable code based on measurements by an automated tool that is used across the world, the Indian skills assessment company Aspiring Minds says…

According to Bloomberg, “Apple became the first U.S. company with a market value of more than $800 billion as investors bet the next iPhone will spur a resurgence in sales.” From the report: The stock rose 1 percent Tuesday to…

When Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop last week, it left many customers and members of the press scratching their heads over its lack of a USB Type-C port. According to general manager of Surface Engineering, Pete Kyriacou, Microsoft seems to…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Computerworld: Craig Diangelo was an IT worker at Northeast Utilities in Connecticut until he completed training his H-1B-visa-holding replacement. He was one of about 200 who lost their jobs in 2014 after two…