The state of California is looking into taxing its thriving rocket industry. The Franchise Tax Board has issued a proposed regulation for public comment that would require companies that launch spacecraft to pay a tax based upon “mileage” traveled by…

A zero day vulnerability exists in WordPress Core that in some instances, could allow an attacker to reset a user’s password and in turn, gain access to their account.

Security researchers say the Blackmoon banking Trojan targeting exclusively South Korean financial institutions has developed a new malware infection technique.

Researchers said good social engineering and users’ trust in the convenience afforded by the OAUTH mechanism guaranteed Wednesday’s Google Docs phishing attacks would spread quickly.

Drones, many readily available on e-commerce shops like Amazon, are plagued by vulnerabilities that could give attackers full root access to the device, read or delete files, or crash the device.

Cisco has uncovered a remote administration tool called Konni that it says has been used in attacks against government agencies and public organizations linked to North Korea.

India’s controversial Aadhaar biometrics ID card scheme is increasingly needed for everything from travel to banking, yet worries are growing about the security of the data held on citizens

There aren’t a lot of quasi-religious moments in computer science, but the official launch of Dartmouth BASIC 53 years ago was one of them.

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