In a surprising twist to what was until now a positive story, the security researcher who stopped the WannaCry ransomware attack earlier this year has been arrested for his involvement with a banking “trojan” virus. British national Marcus Hutchins (pictured), 23, was arrested at the Las Vegas airport on Wednesday by U.S. Marshals on an ...

Jokes about the Amazon Echo and similar smart home devices being self-installed wiretaps that monitor your every move have abounded since the devices were first launched. It turns out such jokes are now a reality, as a security researcher discovered that turning an Echo into a spying device is actually fairly easy to do. Mark Barnes from MWR ...

Researchers at security firm McAfee LLC have discovered two serious vulnerabilities in the telematics control unit used in a range of luxury cars that could potentially allow hackers to gain control of vehicles. A TCU is an embedded system that controls tracking of the vehicle, and in this case involves a unit manufactured by Continental AG that operates as a ...

Updated: The viability of Bitcoin Cash, a spinoff from bitcoin that launched Tuesday, appears to be cemented, as the price surged Wednesday to make it the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Despite an initial slow start as some experts questioned whether the time it takes to mine Bitcoin Cash may limit its potential, bitcoin miners ...

Chinese smartphone makers have continued their climb toward traditional market leaders Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. with three separate reports showing that the gap between the top five phone makers continues to narrow. The first set of figures comes from Canalys, which puts overall smartphone sales for the second quarter at more than ...

A hack of Home Box Office Inc. first reported earlier this week is now believed to be significantly larger than first thought and could include potentially damaging internal company correspondence, according to reports published Wednesday. The hack of HBO was first revealed July 31 when hackers claimed to have stolen data from the company including upcoming ...

In something out of a Philip K. Dick-inspired movie, Microsoft Corp. is adding eye tracking to the next release of its Windows 10 operating system. Designed in conjunction with Swedish startup Tobii AB, the new eye tracking feature allows people with disabilities to control a computer with their eyes, complete with the ability to move ...

A newly introduced Senate bill would impose minimum standards on Internet-of-Things device makers if they want to sell them for government business. The new bill, the Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017, is being supported across party lines and would introduce certain minimum security requirements for IoT devices. Those include not using hard-coded passwords that ...

The price of bitcoin settled in late trading Monday after the launch of Bitcoin Cash, an alternative to bitcoin supported by a small number of bitcoin traders and miners as an alternative to the new Segwit2x bitcoin implementation. Bitcoin Cash went live when its first block was mined at 2:20 p.m. EDT, with reports claiming that ...

Automated car washes, of all things, can now be added to the list of things that can potentially kill you. It turns out that car washes can be hacked for nefarious purposes, according to research presented by WhiteScope LLC information technology security researchers Billy Rios and Jonathan Butt at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas last ...