Security

How do you keep your startup secure? That’s the big question we explored at TC Sessions: Enterprise earlier this month. No matter the size, every startup is an enterprise. Every startup will grow in size as it builds out. But as a company…

Joshua Lott/Bloomberg via Getty Imagesreader comments 28 with 19 posters participatingShare this storyFor nearly three years, the December 2016 cyberattack on the Ukrainian power grid has presented a menacing puzzle. Two days before…

Shenzhen i365 Techreader comments 67 with 43 posters participatingShare this storyAn estimated 600,000 GPS trackers for monitoring the location of kids, seniors, and pets contain vulnerabilities that open users up to a host of creepy…

Here's how much you can make selling certain exploit chains.Photo: ZerodiumOne of the biggest buyers of iOS zero-day exploits says the market is flooded with new iPhone bugs due to weakened security components in Safari and iMessage.…

Security flaw made it possible to infect iPhones using malicious code.Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of MacAn iPhone exploit which used malicious websites to hack iPhones was used to target Uyghur Muslims in China. The security exploit was…

In a rare feat, French police have hijacked and neutralized a massive cryptocurrency mining botnet controlling close to a million infected computers. The notorious Retadup malware infects computers and starts mining cryptocurrency by…

A number of malicious websites used to hack into iPhones over a two-year period were targeting Uyghur Muslims, TechCrunch has learned. Sources familiar with the matter said the websites were part of a state-backed attack — likely China —…

Security researchers at Google say they’ve found a number of malicious websites which, when visited, could quietly hack into a victim’s iPhone by exploiting a set of previously undisclosed software flaws. Google’s Project Zero said in a…

In the olden days, when you wanted to replace your hard drive with a bigger one, you’d run a “secure erase” on it to completely remove any personal data. This would write zeros to the entire disk, overwriting anything already there.But now,…

Router maker Eero is expanding its focus on subscriptions with a new two-tier system. Eero already had a $10 per month subscription called Eero Plus. It is now called Eero Secure+. The company is adding a cheaper plan with less features for…