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Mozilla's co-founder is launching a new "Brave" browser with a built in ad-blocker, but will the browser deliver what it promises?

Microsoft has released the Skype Translator software for free to Windows users for interpreting voice-to-voice conversations in real time. Find out how to set it up and use it, here

Time Warner Cable is urging users to change their account passwords after the FBI informed them that some 320,000 accounts may have been compromised.

The top 7 data breaches on 2015 exposed nearly 200 million records of victims. Find out which were the worst and which may have affected you.

Skype is rolling out a new kind of video emoji they call Moji to enhance you chat sessions. The clips include classic lines from favorite characters like the Muppets, Despicable Me minions and more.

Both Kaspersky and FireEye anti-virus software are crawling with zero-day vulnerabilities, researchers say. This weekend critical flaws in the companies' security products were publicly disclosed by two separate researchers.

Last Friday, security researcher Pedro Vilaca revealed that Macs shipped prior to the summer of 2014 are vulnerable to BIOS exploits that allow for backdooring into a machine at the lowest hardware level.

Say goodbye to Windows features you likely didn't use anyway.

A new technique for de-anonymizing Tor hidden service traffic was revealed at Hack in the Box Security Conference in Amsterdam, Friday.

An ancient vulnerability in DNS servers leaves thousands of educational institutions vulnerable to hacking, say security researchers at HITB Haxpo in Amsterdam, Wednesday.

Images in browsers may be the next big thing in online attacks, according to Hack In The Box presenter Saumil Shah. The researcher presented an updated version of his image embedded malware at HITB 2015 AMS Thursday.

A new ransomware decryption and removal tool from Kapersky Labs has been released and it's completely free. Find out how to use the encryption removing tool here.

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Identity Theft prevention is a growing concern for many Americans. BioCatch has launched a new behavioral biometrics solution that detects fraudsters during new user accounts through 'invisible challenges.'

A zero day vulnerability is Seagate's NAS software was publicly disclosed by white hat hacker OJ Reeves after 130 days of failed disclosure proceedings, leaving thousands vulnerable.

Google has decided to ditch the yearly Pwnium bug bounty program for a year-round program with an infinity million dollar reward pool.

Google's Project Zero urged friendly hackers to hold companies accountable for patching vulnerabilities quickly. But is the request feasible?

Want to make an animated GIF from YouTube videos or other sources? Check out our awesome list of easy to use animated picture makers here.

Live streamed video gaming is huge right now but could watching people code be the next big internet trend?

The Sony Hack was bad, but when comparing which companies saw the largest data breeches, Sony doesn't even come close.

Want to build a better bitcoin wallet? The solution is in deterministic generation, says security researcher Filippo Valsorda. In his HITB Malaysia 2014 presentation, Valsorda shows ECDSA failures in the bitcoin blockchain can be exploited, exposing a user's private key.

Is your computer infected by Cryptolocker virus malware? Find out how to remove the ransomware and restore or decrypt encrypted files for free.