Legal battle to affect digital privacy
The Apple versus FBI iPhone legal controversy may end up being a defining moment for how this nation views personal privacy in the digital age. As you may already know, the FBI wants Apple to create a...
View ArticleIT dept sends over 100 phishing links to cyber security agency
Taking note of the spate of phishing and cheat refund emails landing in inboxes of taxpayers, the Income Tax department has referred over 100 such instances to the country’s premier cyber security...
View ArticleHackers compromised Linux Mint in a way the FBI can only dream of
Hackers took control of the official website for the Linux Mint distro over the weekend, resulting in some users downloading a build of the OS that had been modified to include a backdoor that would...
View ArticleAnonymous hackers target Cincinnati police
CINCINNATI —The hacking group Anonymous released a video Sunday targeting the Cincinnati Police Department. In the video, someone wearing a mask discusses the group’s anger over the department’s...
View ArticleSA hit as cybercrime volumes double
Last year saw a drastic increase in cybercrime, reaching double the amount seen in 2014. This is among the findings from AppRiver’s Global Security Report, which showed that AppRiver quarantined...
View ArticleFire Emblem Fates: Hackers Adding Anna DLC Early
According to Siliconera, the character seen above, Anna, will not be made available in the game until 7 April, but that hasn’t stopped Anna from showing up in several castles under the game’s My Castle...
View ArticleHackers Targeted Human Error in 2015
Hackers overwhelmingly sought to socially engineer and exploit computer users last year rather than create automated exploits for use in email-based attacks, according to Proofpoint. The cybersecurity...
View ArticleBAE Systems share price: Hackers target group twice a week
Foreign governments are suspected of launching cyber attacks on BAE Systems (LON:BA) as often as twice a week, the Financial Times has reported. The news comes with the UK defence giant accelerating a...
View ArticleLA Hospital Hit By Ransomware Pays Hackers $17,000: Is It The Right Choice?
After its computer system got taken over by hackers, the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles has decided to pay a ransom of $17,000 in order to regain access. The hospital was hit by...
View ArticleBanks are being targeted by cyber hackers
Cyber-criminals are increasing attacks on Australian banks and using more sophisticated methods, says a report by computer giant Dell, suggesting heightened cyber-security vigilance and spending by...
View ArticleHackers scam Wichita finance firm out of $270,000
WICHITA, Kan. –Scammers tried to steal a total of $270,000 from the company Heritage Group L.C. The money management firm wired the money overseas in three transactions, thinking it was acting on...
View ArticleHackers use Microsoft security tool to pwn Microsoft security tool
FireEye security wonks Abdulellah Alsaheel and Raghav Pande have twisted the barrels of Microsoft’s lauded EMET Windows defence gun 180 degrees and fired. The result of their research is p0wnage of the...
View ArticleWhile hackers hit the headlines, insider threats should not be forgotten
Hardly a month passes without reports of hacker attacks on high profile firms that destroy business reputations, share prices and executives’ careers. The ensuing “arms race” between businesses and...
View ArticleHackers compromise Linux Mint Cinnamon ISO and forums
The leader of the Linux Mint project, one of the more popular Linux distributions for the desktop, has revealed the project’s website was attacked. In two separate posts to the project’s blog,Clement...
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Hackers Try to Access FDA Data
When the FDA recently warned medical device manufacturers to take cyber security threats seriously and prepare for them, they weren’t just spouting directives. They were talking from experience. FDA...
View ArticleGlobal Risk Advisors Announces Launch of GRA Quantum
New York, NY, February 23, 2016 — Global Risk Advisors is excited to announce the launch of GRA Quantum: The Evolution of Cybersecurity – our latest move to equip clients with unparalleled,...
View ArticleHackers could hijack homes
A security expert said that setting up your house based on the ‘Internet of Things’ devices could lead to your house being hijacked by hackers. Allen Scott, the head of strategic partnerships, for F...
View ArticleXbox Live Down Imminent As Hackers Threaten Microsoft
Hacker attacks have been a really big annoyance to online gamers in the past, taking down the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live in recent years. Now another group of hackers have claimed that they can...
View ArticleWHEN YOU INVITE ELITE HACKERS TO DO THEIR WORST, IT GOES REALLY, REALLY BADLY
Kevin Roose of Fusion is a brave man. He invited hackers to demonstrate just how bad they could make things for him. Roose apparently forgot the story of Jeremy Clarkson, the former Top Gear host who...
View ArticleSecurity Researchers Collaborate to Uncover Sony Pictures Hackers
Today’s topics include the joint efforts by competing security firms to unmask the Sony Pictures hackers, Microsoft’s buyout of development tool company Xamarin, Dell’s proposed $67 billion acquisition...
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