Developer Flight Sim Labs is in hot water after acknowledging that it has installed malware in its flight simulator product that it said targets pirate users of its software.

Researchers are warning users about the Coldroot remote access Trojan that is going undetected by AV engines and targets MacOS computers.

The vulnerability also exposed login credentials for a massive national insurance claims database, Upguard says.

Hotspot Shield has been downloaded more than 500 million times, according to its creator AnchorFree.

Octoly’s incident response was sorely lacking, says the Upguard researcher who found the exposed repository.

The grammar-checking web service fixed the problem with “impressive” speed, a Google researcher says.

Cisco Systems released a patch Monday to fix a critical security vulnerability, with a CVSS rating of 10, in its Secure Sockets Layer VPN solution called Adaptive Security Appliance.

Lenovo said nearly a dozen ThinkPad and ThinkCentre laptops contain a hardcoded password flaw.

Dueling browsers, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, have patched bugs and beefed up security.

The use of HTTP for photo transport and a flaw in Tinder’s use of HTTPS can leave users exposed, Checkmarx says.