Security

US Issues Warning Over ‘Far-Reaching’ Microsoft Email Hack

White House signals concern over potentially 'large number of victims' affected by exploitation of Exchange zero-day flaws

4 years ago

Salesforce’s LinkedIn Account Hijacked With Black Lives Matter Post

CRM giant Salesforce confirms its LinkedIn social media account have been compromised, following unauthorised BLM post last week

4 years ago

Microsoft Blames China For Mail Server Hack

State-sponsored hacking group Hafnium, operating out of mainland China, responsible for Microsoft mail server hack, firms announce

4 years ago

Sectigo Warns 40 Percent Of SMBs Are Attacked Monthly

Survey finds that 50 percent of SMBs have suffered a website breach at some point, with 20 percent admitting being…

4 years ago

Oxford University Confirms Hack Of Biology Lab Studying Covid-19

NCSC investigates after hackers compromised one of the world’s top biology labs at Oxford University, that is investigating Coronavirus

4 years ago

SolarWinds Executives Defend Conduct Before US Senate

'It was the Russians.' Senior executives from SolarWinds, Microsoft, FireEye and CrowdStrike defend themselves at US Senate

4 years ago

30,000 Apple Macs Infected With ‘Silver Sparrow’ Malware

Red Canary security researchers warn up to 30,000 Apple Mac computers are infected with 'Silver Sparrow' malware, that has no…

4 years ago

WhatsApp To Press Ahead With Privacy Update

What backlash? Facebook's WhatsApp says it will go ahead with its privacy policy update, but hopes that it has better…

4 years ago

Kia Motors America Faces $20 Million Ransomware Demand – Report

South Korean car maker Kia admits it has suffered an “extended systems outage”, but says there is no evidence of…

4 years ago

Malware Now Targets Apple’s M1 Processors

Apple security warning. Researcher discovers malware is now being rewritten to target Apple's inhouse designed M1 processors

4 years ago

US Charges Three North Korean Hackers

US charges three North Korean military hackers, and accuses one of them of being involved in Wannacry (2017) and Sony…

4 years ago

Pfizer Attack Carried Out By North Korean Hackers

North Korean hackers have attempted to steal valuable Covid-19 vaccine information from Pfizer, warns South Korean intelligence

4 years ago

Ten Hackers Arrested For $100m Cryptocurrency Theft

Criminal gang used 'sim swapping' technique to hijack phone numbers of famous online influencers, sport stars, and musicians

4 years ago

Popular Barcode Scanner App Transforms Into Adware

Malwarebytes issues warning, after update to a popular barcode scanning app on Google Play, transforms it into adware pusher

4 years ago

Hacker Attempts To Poison US City Water Supply

Real world risk to people's health from hackers demonstrated, after cyber attack attempted to poison water supply for an entire…

4 years ago

Pandemic Sees Surge In Healthcare Ransomware Attacks

Attackers turn to ransomware-as-a-service for easy access as pandemic creates opportunity to pounce on vulnerable healthcare IT

4 years ago

Ex-US Cyber Boss Calls For Military Strikes On Ransomware Hackers

US military should use 'information warfare' to strike back against ransomware gangs, as cyber-attacks threaten to disable state and local…

4 years ago

Billions Of Emails, Passwords Leaked Online

Huge exposure of personal emails and passwords found on dark web hacker forum, is a compilation of many previous breaches

4 years ago

Google Cloud Offers ‘Zero-Trust’ Security

Google Cloud's BeyondCorp Enterprise eliminates distinction between internal and external users, as enterprises grapple with implications of SolarWinds hack

4 years ago

Ransom-Fuelled DDoS Attacks ‘Surged’ In 2020

Security firm Neustar sees DDoS attacks more than double in 2020, with ransom demands spreading to finance, government, energy sectors

4 years ago

Track-and-Trace Personal Data Stolen In The Netherlands

Leak surrounding the Netherlands’ coronavirus track-and-trace programme, results in the personal data of people being stolen, amid curfew riots

4 years ago

Emotet Botnet Offline After Global Takedown By Police

Good news. One of the world's most dangerous botnets, Emotet, has been taken down in a co-ordinated police operation around…

4 years ago

Cisco Warns Of Critical Flaws In Networking Products

Security bugs in SD-WAN offerings could allow attackers to run malicious code with root privileges or execute malicious CLI commands

4 years ago

US Administration Renews Cyber-Security Focus

Incoming US administration set to place experienced cyber-security officials in key posts, as country grapples with massive SolarWinds hack

4 years ago

Hackers Release Data Stolen In Sepa Ransomware Attack

Hackers have released confidential business and staff data stolen in a Christmas Eve ransomware attack on Sepa after the agency…

4 years ago

Some Laptops For Vulnerable Children Contain Malware – Report

A small number of laptops handed out by the Department for Education to vulnerable children, reportedly contain malware linked to…

4 years ago

Outgoing FCC Boss Ajit Pai Warns Of China Threat

China continues to pose espionage and cyber threat to US telecommunications networks, says FCC chairman as he steps down after…

4 years ago

Internet’s Biggest Card Theft Marketplace To Shut Down

Joker's Stash, a 'dark web' marketplace estimated to have generated more than $1 billion in sales of stolen payment card…

4 years ago

Hackers Bypassing MFA To Access Cloud Accounts, Warn CISA

US cyber agency warn hackers are bypassing multi-factor authentication (MFA) authentication protocols to compromise cloud accounts

4 years ago

CES 2021: Ring Trials End-To-End Encryption In Smart Doorbells

Privacy move. Smart doorbell maker adds encryption to protect video streams after security scares

4 years ago