Google announced today five new rules for the Chrome Web Store, the portal where users go to download Chrome extensions. The new rules are primarily meant to prevent malicious extensions from reaching ...

The long-running Contagious Interview campaign is now hiding BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret payloads inside JSON storage services.

Mozilla will start blocking Firefox add-ons that contain obfuscated code as part of the updated Add-on Policy that aims to rid the portal of third-party malicious code. Come June 10, Mozilla will ...

The IOCCC has returned to collect a fresh batch of mind-bogglingly difficult-to-understand C code The creators behind the long-running Internet contest to write bizarre and unnecessarily complex C ...

The International Obfuscated C Contest – the contest to create the most useful, useless, or unique program in absolutely unreadable C code – has just posted the winners of the 2013 contest. Of the ...

The contest is not necessarily looking for badly written code. In fact, writing truly obfuscated code requires a "deep understanding of the language," Noll said, noting that winners in years past have ...

The attack targeted the military mission of a Western country in Ukraine, with the goal of deploying a PowerShell-based version of the GammaSteel infostealer. A cyberespionage group of Russian origin ...

FishPig, a UK-based maker of e-commerce software used by as many as 200,000 websites, is urging customers to reinstall or update all existing program extensions after discovering a security breach of ...