The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time for a ...

Sometimes, those of us in the computer biz get so wrapped up in the techie details that we forget that many people don’t know what we think are the basics. For example, a really smart, computer-savvy ...

Once inside as an admin, attackers exploit a command injection flaw to trick the AI-powered security feature into executing commands for persistence. A newly uncovered botnet is targeting Asus routers ...

Microsoft claims that its search-and-destroy tool for Windows took down enough infected PCs that the hackers called it quits Microsoft took credit for crushing the Storm botnet Tuesday, saying that ...

Microsoft Corp. today took credit for crushing the Storm botnet, saying that the malware search-and-destroy tool it distributes to Windows users disinfected so many bots that the hackers threw in the ...