Paul Wagenseil

Millions of home Wi-Fi routers around the world are under attack from botnet malware, days after a firmware flaw was publicly disclosed.

Home gateway routers often reveal their users' addresses on the internet, thanks to an unwise formatting decision made more than 20 years ago.

Each website you create an account with ends up wasting about 90 minutes of your time every year with emails, texts and phone calls, researchers have found.

Zoom reached a tentative settlement in a class-action suit, agreeing to pay out $85 million over claims it skimped on user security and privacy.

A 'security update' is being applied to Google Drive files in September. Here's what's really happening, and what you need to do.

Letting browsers and password managers automatically fill in usernames and passwords on websites is a huge security risk, a Czech security researcher says.

Apple rushed out an emergency patch for iPhones, iPads and Macs to fix a serious security flaw that's likely already being used in attacks.

It's not older women, but young men who think they know everything about computers are most likely to lose money in tech-support scams, reports Microsoft.

A widely used repository of open-source software has been infected with password-stealing malware, and there's no telling how many applications and projects have been poisoned.

A jaw-droppingly dumb flaw in Windows 10 and Windows 11 lets any local user or program seize full control of a machine.

Two more security flaws related to Windows' printing software have been disclosed. No permanent fixes yet, but you can defuse one flaw by turning off printing altogether.

Google has pushed out a new update for Chrome on Windows, Mac and Linux to fix several severe security flaws, including one already being exploited by attackers. Here's what to do.

Microsoft patched 117 security flaws in the July Patch Tuesday updates, including nine 'zero-day' vulnerabilities that were publicly disclosed before Microsoft could fix them.

Low-cost U.S. cellular carrier Mint Mobile appears to have suffered a data breach, which may have exposed an unknown number of user passwords.

Amazon's new Sidewalk home network has people worried about privacy and security, but is that really justified? And what about Apple's similar Find My network?

Microsoft pushed out an emergency patch for the 'PrintNightmare' security flaw, which affects all Windows computers and servers.

Nearly a dozen Android apps were set up to steal users' Facebook passwords and usernames, and were installed nearly 6 million times.

Personal data 'scraped' from 700 million LinkedIn user profiles is being sold online. Even though the data is theoretically public, it's useful for spammers, stalkers and phishers.

More than 100 Dell laptops and desktops moels can be hacked over the air thanks to flaws in the way the machines handle firmware updates, but fixes are available.

Brave Search, which promises to be a privacy-focused search engine that doesn't track or profile users, has entered public beta testing that anyone can try out.

This fully loaded pre-built gaming rig with an RTX 3080 Ti GPU and Ryzen 9 5900X CPU is on sale at NewEgg for $600 off.

A Wi-Fi hotspot name containing specific character strings will permanently disable Wi-Fi connections on an iPhone until the user manually clears all network settings.

Carnival, the world's largest cruise-ship operator, said it had been hit by its second data breach in the past 18 months.