by Lily Hay Newman | Feb 18, 2021 | News
Apple is a notoriously secretive and insular organization, a tendency that has often put it at odds with the security research community. The company is often inscrutable about the technical details of how its products and security features really work. So the...
by Lily Hay Newman | Feb 17, 2021 | News
Mac malware has always been less common than its Windows-targeting counterparts, but in recent years the threat to Apple computers has gone mainstream. There’s adware and even ransomware tailored to Macs, and attackers are always looking to circumvent...
by Lily Hay Newman | Feb 16, 2021 | News
You know not to click on links in sketchy emails. Everybody does by now. And yet, people fall for phishing attacks all the time. And that’s the whole point. If phishing didn’t work, attackers would have abandoned it a long time ago. Instead it’s...
by Lily Hay Newman | Feb 11, 2021 | News
Just because a vulnerability is old doesn’t mean it’s not useful. Whether it’s Adobe Flash hacking or the EternalBlue exploit for Windows, some methods are just too good for attackers to abandon, even if they’re years past their prime. But a...
by Lily Hay Newman | Feb 9, 2021 | News
Ransomware became an increasingly dire threat throughout 2020, as hackers continued to target hospitals and health care providers in the midst of a pandemic. A smaller trend has also been brewing over the last few months as well, with a rash of attacks on video game...
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