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In this episode of the Talk Security podcast, Threatpost’s Chris Brook and Brian Donohue discuss the Dark Hotel cyberespionage campaign and the WireLurker Apple malware.

One morning when I was in a hurry to get to work, everything went wrong in an instant: an SMS message alerted me to an $80 charge to my credit card for a purchase that I never made.

Yesterday, researchers disclosed a powerful iOS vulnerability that is responsible for the WireLurker Apple malware.

Kaspersky Lab revealed a cyberspy campaign, Darkhotel, which had been active for seven years in a number of luxury Asian hotels.

Let’s take a look at the security features in the new version of Mac OS X – Yosemite. Apple certainly makes a decent effort.

It’s not always easy to give general advice to Android users because the OS is so very diverse. But we have ten security tips that are relevant for almost any Android version.

Apple malware targets iOS by infecting OS X machines and then swapping legitimate apps for malicious ones as soon as an iOS device connects via USB.

Using an in-room tablet in a hotel is an easy way to share your precious private data with the whole world and make it public.

Read highlights from our top posts in October.

Drupal warns customers that they should assume their sites are compromised unless they installed an update from mid-October within hours of the release.

Kaspersky Lab wishes everyone a happy- and safe- Halloween!

Today, users are readily spending their money on house arrest-style services similar to those used for tracking criminals. They call them fitness trackers.

Brian Donohue and Dennis Fisher talk about a new attack on the SSL protocol, which is now known as POODLE.

Twitter debuts a grand but simple plan to replace passwords where your phone number is your username and an SMS-generated code is your password.

Google’s mobile operating system joins Apple’s iOS in offering full disk encryption by default to all users in its newest version — Android 5.0 aka Lollipop.

The owners of certain expensive cars can analyze their driving skills in the same way F1 pilots do. However, this information is sensitive and, thus, should be protected.

New research shows that studying and mnemonic devices could help us to better remember our passwords.

One simple Android game can get as much information about the smartphone’s owner as a real spy can.

A massive provider of insurance for bond investments misconfigured one of its servers and accidentally made a variety of sensitive payment information indexable.

Using a trojan malware with the Russian name, Tyupkin, hackers made cash withdrawals without so much as accessing bank accounts.

”Dear Chairman, dear Vice Chairman, dear members of the board, let me present to you the annual report… Oops… Just a moment, we are having some technical issues…”