Fox ‘hacked’ Tantaros’s devices to install a keylogger, claim her lawyers, and used the information they found to harass her

Patches come in response to notification of a talk at Black Hat discussing how hackers ‘broke the homebrew encryption algorithm

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phone Arena: On Tuesday, Apple is expected to report its fiscal second quarter earnings. In that report, the tech titan will reportedly announce that it is holding $250 billion in cash. If you…

Chris Williams reports via The Register: Intel processor chipsets have, for roughly the past nine years, harbored a security flaw that can be exploited to remotely control and infect vulnerable systems with virtually undetectable spyware and other malicious code. Specifically,…

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the fastest-selling Mario Kart title ever, selling nearly half a million copies stateside when it went on sale last Friday. Polygon reports: Nintendo announced that the game beat out Mario Kart Wii as the series’…

sciencehabit quotes a report from Science Magazine: If you’ve used the smartphone application Snapchat, you may have turned a photo of yourself into a disco bear or melded your face with someone else’s. Now, a group of researchers has created…

An anonymous reader writes: River City Media, the company accused of running a huge spam operation, has filed a lawsuit against the security researcher and the journalist who exposed their activities. In a ludicrous lawsuit complaint, the company claims the…

Yahoo has patched an account takeover vulnerability on its Flickr image-hosting service that earned an independent security researcher a $7,000 bounty.

Dan Geer’s Source Boston keynote included a declaration that cybersecurity and humanity’s future are forever conjoined.

Apple takes countermeasures to neutralize OSX/Dok HTTPS-snooping malware by revoking a hijacked certificate updating its XProtect built-in anti-malware software.