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You know it’s a problem when even a company like Google can’t keep bad apps out of it’s own Play Store. While we’ve seen several instances of lone bad apps sneaking into public release on the official Android app store, this latest batch of malware is surprisingly prodigious and apparently managed to go undetected for almost a

I think it’s safe to say that many of us would have very much liked Samsung’s sexy new iris recognition feature on their new Galaxy S8 smart phone to be more than an over-used movie gimmick. Sadly, like its previously defeated brethren fingerprint and face recognition protections, it too has proven to be fallible, and not

Famed painter and TV personality Bob Ross was beloved for his soothing instructional style and effortless technique, but he was also well known for referring to his occasional painting mistakes as “happy little accidents” which would quickly be transformed into art. In the technology industry, “accidents” are rarely happy and even the little ones have a

Last week, reports started surfacing about an unusual phishing attack that was spreading via Google docs. It was unusual in that it was spreading via a previously undiscovered weakness in Google’s typically tight security, as well as not seeming to have the expected signatures of a traditional phishing attack, eg. stealing your logins and passwords.

In recent weeks we’ve reported on the largely unnoticed cyber warfare being fought among the Internet of Things (IoT) – “unnoticed” primarily because the IoT consists of devices which are meant to be left unattended, and as such are often compromised for long periods of time before someone realizes something is wrong. Another quiet war

Following the advent of the Mirai virus that dragooned over 100K web-connected security cameras and NVRs to form an attack botnet, a hacker wrote a bit of malware dubbed BrickerBot that also targeted insecure devices like the ones vulnerable to the Mirai malware. Unlike Mirai, the botnet formed by the BrickerBot malware was used to actually disable