Recent content by Jill Scharr

Let robots clean your home. From hardwood floor specialists to vacuum-and-mop combos, these are our favorite robot vacuums. Best Robot Vacuums of the Year : Read more

Let robots clean your home. From hardwood floor specialists to vacuum-and-mop combos, these are our favorite robot vacuums. Best Robot Vacuums of the Year : Read more

Microsoft patched several critical bugs with its latest Patch Tuesday round of updates, but left unfixed a serious Internet Explorer flaw. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Skips Fix for Dangerous Flaw : Read more

A report says hackers can steal personal data from your car, or even remotely hijack it. Here's how they do it, and how you can stop them. How Hackers Could Take Over Your Car : Read more

Here's how to boost your security on Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari by setting Adobe Flash Player to click-to-run. How to Set Adobe Flash Player to Click-to-Run : Read more

Triple-whammy: The Fessleaks malvertising campaign uses new Adobe Flash Player flaws to infect unsuspecting Web browsers with ransomware. Infected Web Ads Use Flash Flaws to Spread Ransomware : Read more

The third Flash zero-day browser exploit in two weeks is in a new malvertising campaign; here's how to disable Flash to protect yourself. Yet Another Flash 0-Day Found; How to Protect Yourself : Read more

Malvertising can happen on any webpage on which ads are hosted. And if you're not paying for the content of the sites you visit, you have to assume the site is making money off you somehow....

A flaw in older Nintendo 3DSs can be exploited to sideload ROMs of any GameBoy or GameBoy Color game. Nintendo 3DS Flaw Lets You Play GameBoy ROMs : Read more

A new malvertising campaign has hit porn site xHamster, exploiting an Adobe zero-day to infect the site's visitors with a nasty downloader. Unsafe Sex: Porn Site Infected with Malvertising : Read more

A recently discovered (and already patched) flaw in Blackphone's Silent Text app would have let attackers snoop on messages, and more. Serious Blackphone Flaw Let Attackers Decrypt Messages : Read more

Why won't Google patch two serious flaws in Android? And how can these flaws affect you? What Google's Unpatched Android Flaws Mean for You : Read more

Hi everyone, thanks for your comments! From my experience, I agree with DarkSable: Project Zero is probably looking at the most commonly used software in an effort to find bugs that would potentially affect the greatest number of people, and Microsoft and Apple are certainly at the top of that...

Google's Project Zero has done to Apple what it recently did to Microsoft, disclosing three OS X flaws before Apple had patched them. Google Roasts Apple, Discloses 3 OS X Bugs : Read more

You'll now be able to send and receive WhatsApp messages on desktop via the Google Chrome browser, but only if you're not an iOS user. WhatsApp Messenger Gets Desktop Version : Read more