Security & Safety

The new tools are meant to help the developers of password managers and Apple hopes the tools will reduce the instances where users chose their own password rather than rely on the password manager.Read More

National Geographic has a photo of a 7-foot long shark that fought a giant squid and lived to tell the tale. Or, at least, lived to show off the suction marks on his skin. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in …

Allowing people to cast their ballots online to circumvent coronavirus-related health concerns introduces problems that we simply don’t know how to manage, says the Purdue University professor and security leader.Read More

Users of Zeplin, a popular developer and designer collaboration system, have been hit with new waves of spear-phishing attacks in the last month.Read More

Children’s app developer HyperBeard must pay $150,000 after the FTC claimed it violated privacy laws.Read More

Kenenty Hwan Kim has pleaded guilty to swindling the appliance giant and other companies in a set of elaborate schemes.Read More

Threatpost editors discuss debunked reports of a Minneapolis police department breach and Zoom announcing only paying users would get end-to-end encryption.Read More

COVID-19 is complicating an already complex security situation in the Sahel, with terrorist groups exploiting the pandemic as they step up attacks on national and international forces, the UN’s peacekeeping chief said on Friday.Read More

eCh0raix ransomware gang returns with a new wave of attacks against QNAP NAS devices.Read More

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