Hackers, leakers must keep leaks constructive
On Oct. 21, Wikileaks released CIA Director John Brennan’s private emails from the late 2000s. The emails provide insight into shifts in government policy, but also contained personal information,...
View ArticleFBI Recommends Victims to Pay Hackers Demanding Bitcoin Ransoms
Over the past few months notorious hacking groups have targeted financial institutions, large tech corporations and popular web platforms like Ashley Madison and the Bank of China. The attacks ranged...
View ArticleState losing Sh5 billion to hackers annually, new survey shows
The state loses about Sh5 billion to hackers every year due to inadequate cyber security control, the Kenya Cyber Security Report 2015 shows. The report launched yesterday shows hackers also steal...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Releases Two More Documents From CIA’s Chief Emails
Transparency organization WikiLeaks have released two more documents from private email account of CIA Director John Brennan, who worked between 1980 and 2005 with the US Government agency. The cache...
View Article“Hackers” poised to disrupt luxury industry
LONDON – The luxury industry is in for some big changes as more players from the technology sector enter the space, according to the CEO of Dymant at Luxury Interactive Europe 2015 on Oct. 28. From...
View ArticleSocial Media Quizzes Could Give Hackers Access
Social media allows you to connect with the world, but many seemingly harmless quizzes and games can really be traps laid by social media hackers. The simple and sometimes silly surveys that pop up on...
View ArticleHackers leak Aussie Farmers Direct customer details online
HACKERS have leaked the details of more than 5000 Aussie Farmers Direct customers online in an attempt to extort cash from the company. The names, phone numbers, email and home addresses of customers...
View ArticleWikileaks docs reveal Trans-Pacific Partnership could out copyright infringers
Pirates beware: ISPs may soon be legally obligated to reveal your identity, thanks to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Wikileaks this week published a leaked copy of the intellectual property chapter of...
View ArticleTCU profs help protect medical devices from hackers
FORT WORTH – Two North Texas professors have received a grant to help prevent hackers from breaking into medical devices, such as insulin pumps or radiation machines. Internet security experts say...
View ArticleWhite House Details Plan to Bring Feds’ Cybersecurity Up to Date
The White House announced plans on Friday to modernize the federal government’s out-of-date cybersecurity practices. Work has been underway for much of the Obama administration, but the Office of...
View ArticleHackers could take advantage of Tory Snooper’s Charter to blackmail any...
Hackers could expose the private web-browsing habits of every computer user in Britain if the new Snooper’s Charter goes ahead, experts have warned. Cyber-blackmail gangs could steal ‘web-log’ data...
View ArticleHackers release info on Obama’s national security transition team
The slow drip of information allegedly stolen from CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email account continues to find its way onto WikiLeaks, with a list of personal information about 20 members of...
View ArticleICIT Chastises OPM’s Lack of Modern Cybersecurity in an Official Analysis
The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) describes itself as a “nonprofit (status pending), non-partisan group of the world’s most innovative experts and companies that provide...
View ArticleWhy The Time Has Come For Penetration Testing On IBM i
Home Depot’s point of sale (POS) system was breached in 2014, comprising information on 53 million accounts. A year before, Target’s POS was breached, putting data from at least 40 million customers in...
View ArticleToronto’s hackers ponder the lure of a million-dollar prize
The exterior of 1266 Queen St. W. is unassuming, but the doorbell gives away the kind of community that’s nestled between its walls. Upon ringing the button for unit six, a voice immediately greets...
View ArticleCyberhack crooks hit 14 more firms: Users personal details at risk from hackers
Brands Vodafone, Visa, Sky TV, Amazon and Ticketmaster have all fallen victim to the cyber attackers. Personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and bank details of customers are...
View ArticleJulian Assange: Google Is Hillary Clinton’s ‘Secret Weapon’
MEXICO CITY — When Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told an open government conference Thursday that “Google was now Hillary’s secret weapon,” he provided ample fertilizer for a year’s worth of...
View ArticleICIT Brief: Know Your Enemies – A Primer on Advanced Persistent Threat Groups
Every system connected to the internet in every home, organization, and government entity is relentlessly subject to the attempts of malicious actors to steal their data or exploit their system....
View ArticleTexas profs help protect medical devices from hackers
FORT WORTH – Two North Texas professors have received a grant to help prevent hackers from breaking into medical devices, such as insulin pumps or radiation machines. Internet security experts say...
View ArticleExploit devs allegedly bag $1m for ‘secret’ iOS 9.1 untethered jailbreak
An unnamed team of hackers has apparently received a million-dollar payout for disclosing a trio of iOS 9.x and Google Chrome security bugs to private zero-day buyer Zerodium. However, only people...
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