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Hype surrounding smartwatch exploited by cynical scammers. Hackers have jumped on the unveiling of the Apple Watch as a chance to phish for data through social networks, according to the security vendor Malwarebytes.

by | 04 February 2015 Due out in a few weeks, Blackhat is a new movie looking at a case of high-level computer hacking - but how accurate is it? Lookout, your friendly neighbourhood hacker-for-good, has taken a closer look, and at first glance it's good news with the film steering clear of tired old tropes.

Norman Shaw, Founder and CEO of ExactTrak, on human error as the main cause of data breaches and to protect against it.

Software-based security solutions encrypt the data to protect it from theft. However, a malicious program or a hacker could corrupt the data in order to make it unrecoverable, making the system unusable. Hardware-based security solutions can prevent read and write access to data and hence offer very strong protection against tampering and unauthorized access.

Cyberattackers have compromised a Pakistani Government website, allowing them to log the keystrokes of visitors entering sensitive information into a passport application site

This technology works for radio wireless local area networking. If you are a smartphone user then no doubt surfing internet using wifi is a part of the daily drive. Wifi is useful for connecting mobile without wire and any sim card. It can deal with the radio frequency signal to use the internet from a local area network through modem signal. We can crack WiFi password is simple with Linux platform using some tools like Aircrack-ng, Reaver, Pixiewps, Wifite, Wireshark and more tools are available for hack WiFi passwords in Kali Linux.

Learn what the threats are and how to protect yourself. A report this week released by Verizon analysed a decade of data on security breaches to find out what tactics hackers are using to attack computer systems. Comprising 100,000 separate incidents, including 63,000 in 2013, the security firm identified nine basic patterns that covered 92% of the attacks.

'Cross application' data sharing makes user vulnerable, says MWR InfoSecurity. Free mobile apps that use third-party advertising code are putting users in danger of being hacked, according to MWR InfoSecurity. The firm found that ad networks were inheriting the permissions of free apps, granting them access to the address books, text messages and emails of potential victims if the network was compromised by hackers.

Analysis: Was phishing or brute force responsible for the attack? Both businesses and consumers are increasingly reliant on services such as Apple's iCloud, which has been implicated in the celebrity picture attack. Companies are now using it to store intellectual property as well as information about its customers, and this makes it a prime target for hackers.

The proliferation of wearable devices that connect to the Internet understandably has a great many people worried about the implications for security. Soon enough, hackers could have a direct line to anything from wristwatches to pacemakers, and the damage could be devastating. Here are the top five wearable threats which could have an impact on you.