Cybercrime

Code name found in Equation malware suggests link to NSA

The name matches an NSA project listed in a secret document leaked by Edward Snowden

The U.S.-China game of cyber chicken could derail Silicon Valley

If China and America don’t end their crazy spying-tinged trade war, billions of dollars in technology sales will evaporate

IBM discloses vulnerability in Dropbox’s Android SDK

The flaw allegedly affects popular Android apps like Microsoft Office Mobile, but Dropbox maintains its scope is limited

Smart home or dumb security risk?

Internet-connected devices are flooding into homes, but with convenience comes vulnerability

OpenDNS trials system that quickly detects computer crime

Mozilla scrubs Superfish certificate from Firefox

Firefox update removes from the browser's repository the self-signed digital certificate implanted by Superfish

Flaw in popular Web analytics plug-in exposes WordPress sites to hacking

Attackers can easily crack cryptographic keys used by the WP-Slimstat plug-in and use them to read information from a site's database

Superfish stumper: What did Lenovo know and when did it know it?

There's only thing worse than Lenovo not knowing about Superfish: Lenovo knowing about Superfish

Lenovo: ‘We were as surprised as you’

In an exclusive interview, Lenovo's Mark Cohen explains how the Superfish debacle went down

Microsoft helps Lenovo, deletes Superfish ‘crapware’ and rogue cert

New Windows Defender signature seeks out and destroys spying app and the self-signed certificate at the root of security fiasco