Security

The easiest way to keep hackers at bay is with a VPN. But finding one that offers the right mix of security and performance can be difficult. That’s why we’ve discounted a lifetime subscription to FastestVPN, considered one of the best in the business, to a price that practically anyone …

These top-ranking Windows 10 client antivirus products were tested on three primary criteria: protection, performance, and usability.

Black Hat hit high notes and low last week in Vegas. Here's our roundup of what you missed.

Google and Mozilla have decided to eliminate Extended Validation signals in their desktop browsers; the certificates were designed to assure users they landed on a legitimate site, not a malicious copycat.

A watering hole attack used Slack for its command-and-control communications to avoid network and endpoint detection.

New Verizon report shows a big gap between organizations' mobile security risk concerns and mobile security best practices they implement.

Almost half of the respondents said the volume of URL-based attacks had increased over the last year

Microsoft has removed eight applications from its app store for Windows that were mining Monero cryptocurrency without users' knowledge.

Android users are being warned after nefarious, fake apps were found on the Google Play Store. Android is one of the most used pieces of software in the world, with the Google mobile OS used on more than two billion active devices each month. And its userbase are no strangers to …

From virtual bank heists to semi-open attacks from nation-states, the last couple of years has been rough on IT security. Here are some of the major recent cyber attacks and what we can learn from them.

On GitHub, developers are spending more time on cross-platform development, deep learning, and acquring new coding skills, based on the popular code-sharig site’s analysis of activity on GiHub in 2017. Google’s Angular JavaScript framework and TensorFlow machine learning library have experienced upticks in participation. Projects for learning, such as GitHub’s …

Some information security insiders raised a red flag when Russian requests to review security software code became known. The controversy may be a tempest in a teapot.