TV5Monde cyber attack likely by Russian backed hackers
PARIS – A cyber-attack in April on France’s TV5Monde television channel may have been carried out by Russian-based hackers, French investigators believe. ADVERTISING The April hack shut down...
View ArticleUS Investigators Close to Identifying Super-Hackers
Security officials are close to identifying the perpetrators of the largest US government personnel data breach ever, Congressmen Adam Schiff said according to media reports. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — On...
View ArticleHelpful “hackers” to decode government data jumble
DO YOU like designing and working with data? Perhaps you like developing mobile apps, games, websites and helping people too. In GovHack 2015 Sunshine Coast, designers, developers and data gurus will...
View ArticleChinese gov’t-funded hackers attack Vietnam’s cyberspace
In a report released on May 25, FireEye, a security firm, pointed out that APT30, a group of Chinese hackers, have been hacking websites in Vietnam and ASEAN countries over the last 10 years with the...
View ArticleOPM to House: Progress on ID’ing hackers
The Obama administration has “made a lot of progress on the attribution front” in the massive digital theft of 4 million federal workers’ records, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told reporters after...
View ArticleAs Data Breaches Go On, Hackers See Big Profits
If you were told that a new venture for your business would reap nearly 1,500 percent returns, would you pull the trigger? Cybercriminals certainly do. According to a new report from Trustwave Holdings...
View ArticleDuluth Kids Train to Combat Cyber Hackers
Hackers will have a well-trained enemy in the future. This week about two dozen kids in Duluth are learning to be the next generation of cyber security experts. Lake Superior College is hosting a camp...
View ArticleHackers Could Remotely Send Fatal Doses To Patients Via Flawed Hospital Pumps
When it comes to hacking we’re mostly concerned about leaked data, especially if it involves banking details, credit cards or anything that could hurt us in the pocket. But as the Internet of Things...
View ArticleIllusive Networks Foils Hackers By Luring Them Into Stealing Fake Data
An Israeli startup called Illusive Networks says that it is able to foil hackers by luring them into thinking they can steal data, information which turns out to be fake. The company’s algorithm...
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U.S. vs Hackers
Knowing is half the battle. No, it’s not a public safety advice from a Saturday morning cartoon. It’s a very important adage to remember when facing challenges, battles and war. It’s synonymous to...
View Articlelack of interoperability in the healthcare industry is an enormous national...
The lack of interoperability in the healthcare industry is an enormous national problem. It is especially challenging for patients with mental or behavioral health issues. And that’s not a small subset...
View ArticleHackers’ Favorite Target: Big Oil and All That Deadly Equipment
Hackers have made the energy industry a favorite target. A study conducted in April by Symantec Corp., the world’s biggest cybersecurity firm, found that computer-system invaders attacked 43 percent of...
View ArticleFeds Looking Into Whether Hack of US Government Affected Private Citizens Too
Federal investigators are trying to determine whether the massive hack into federal systems announced this past week impacted far more than the estimated 4 million current and former government...
View ArticleTesla offers up to $1,000 to hackers uncovering ‘bugs’
Tesla Motors Inc. is offering up to $1,000 to people who uncover security problems on its website. Tesla’s “bug bounty” — $25 to $1,000 a “bug”—is on Bugcrowd, a security crowdsourcing company based in...
View ArticleFederal Data Breach: Can the Government Protect Itself From Hackers?
The major data breach announced Thursday at the agency that handles security clearances and federal workers’ records is only the most recent intrusion into a government system — and almost certainly...
View ArticleChina Hackers Got Past Costly U.S. Computer Security With Ease
China Hackers Got Past Costly U.S. Computer Security With Ease The hackers who stole personal data on 4 million government employees from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management sneaked past a...
View ArticleChinese Hackers Who Broke Into Federal Database May Have Obtained Names Of...
U.S. investigators handling the data breach that resulted in the personal information of 4 million federal workers being stolen now fear that Chinese hackers may have also taken off with a database of...
View ArticleReports: Weak Internet Security Leaves U.S. Elections Agency Vulnerable to...
WASHINGTON—Weak Internet-security measures at the Federal Election Commission could impair the agency’s ability to carry out one of its primary missions: making information about who is funding U.S....
View ArticleUnited Flights Halted: The Malicious Work Of A Hacker Or An Old-Fashioned...
Was the world’s second-largest airline grounded for nearly an hour Tuesday morning by a hacker? Probably not. But that was the immediate suspicion after Chicago-based United Airlines began experiencing...
View ArticleHackers could take your car for a ride
A Sequim couple got a surprise recently when they learned that their car was under the control of a complete stranger. “Uh oh. It’s starting to do things,” Lucy Langdon said as she sat in the passenger...
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