Intel patches three flaws that could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on impacted systems.

Old banking malware called Dorkbot has reemerged in 2018 to become a serious threat.

The team behind the popular open-source framework Electron warns a remote code execution flaw could compromise user privacy.

Microsoft fixed a bug in Skype last month that could have allowed an attacker to execute code on the system it was running on, phish Skype credentials and crash the application.

The dangers of Skyping and typing, the fingerprint warrant story, hiding credit card numbers in images, and more are discussed.

A research paper explains how attackers can use recordings of keystroke sounds captured in a Skype conversation to guess what’s being typed.

Zscater identified a keylogger on steroids that targets passwords, webcam and software licenses.

Researchers have identified a vulnerability in an Android API used by messaging apps such as Skype and perhaps more concerning, privacy-centric apps such as Signal, and Telegram, that could lead to privilege escalation and data loss including private keys. Dominik Schürmann and Lars Wolf, researchers at the Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany, discovered the vulnerability, which they’ve dubbed...

A coalition of law enforcement agencies worked together recently to disrupt Dorkbot, a botnet that’s managed to infect more than one million machines in 190 countries during the last year. Researchers with Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center announced the news via a post on the MMPC blog. Two divisions within Microsoft, the Malware Protection Center and the Digital Crimes Unit, worked with ESET...