CyberCrime

Iran Conducted Cyber Attacks On UK Infrastructure – Report

Cyber attacks that targetted UK infrastructure in December were conducted by Iran, says media report

6 years ago

Russia Regularly Uses GPS Spoofing – Report

When Russian President Vladimir Putin comes to town, a bubble of spoofed GPS signals surrounds him

6 years ago

Industrial Control Systems Suffer Rising Cyberattacks – Kaspersky Lab

Almost one in two industrial computers worldwide subjected to malicious cyber activity, Kaspersky Lab warns

6 years ago

Nearly Half European Businesses Lack Robust Cyber Defence – Study

Kaspersky Lab study also shows majority feel that attackers are rarely caught and brought to justice

6 years ago

Asus Servers Hijacked To Push Malware To Customers

Taiwanese PC maker pushes malware out to customers via automatic software update tool

6 years ago

Ransomware Attack Costs Norsk Hydro $40m

Ouch! Hefty cost of ransomware attack prompts experts to warn companies to check their insurance policies

6 years ago

Facebook Stored Millions Of Passwords Unprotected

Oh dear. 600 million passwords stored in plain text with no encryption, social network admits

6 years ago

Police Federation Confirms Ransomware Breach

Association of police officers in England and Wales confirms it is the latest to suffer ransomware attack

6 years ago

Aluminium Maker Hydro Goes Old School After Ransomware Attack

Huge Norwegian aluminium producer switches to 'manual operations' after damaging ransomware attack

6 years ago

Windows 7 Users At Risk From ‘Serious Bug’, Google Warns

Millions of PCs still at risk from vulnerability that is being actively exploited by criminals

6 years ago

Singapore Health Hackers Identified By Symantec

Hacking group that inflicted Singapore with its worst ever cyber attack, has been identified by Symantec

6 years ago

Telecom Sector Needs Agreed Cybersecurity Standards – Huawei

Chinese networking giant calls for cybersecurity standards agreement as it opens Brussels facility

6 years ago

IoT Devices Under Constant Attack

Cyxtera research finds sustained attacks, mostly from China, are being conducted against IoT devices

6 years ago

Russian Hackers Hitting European Democratic Institutions, Warns Microsoft

Russian hacker group Fancy Bear behind attacks on Germany, Poland, Romania and Serbia

6 years ago

Encrypted Apps Used To Exchange Child Abuse Images – Report

Criminals increasingly utilising encrypted apps, rather than the dark web, to trade child abuse images

6 years ago

Australian Politicians Hacked By ‘Sophisticated State Actor’

Cyber whodunnit after Prime Minister warns of 'nation state hack' of Australian political parties and parliament

6 years ago

WannaCry Hero Marcus Hutchins Loses Evidence Bid

“I was intoxicated” claim by Marcus Hutchins during FBI interview dismissed by American court

6 years ago

500px Admits Data Breach

Popular photograph website admits 'data security incident' that affects millions of its users

6 years ago

South African Power Firm Eskom Fails To Secure Customer Data

Eskom criticised after failing to respond to researcher about its exposure of customer data

6 years ago

Collection 2 Data Breach Exposes 2.2 Billion Unique Accounts

Massive new data dump of 2.2 records are being distributed on hacker forums and torrents

6 years ago

Name And Shame Firms With Poor Cybersecurity

Academic report argues businesses with poor cyber security should be publicly named and shamed

6 years ago

WhatsApp Restricts Message Forwarding, To Halt ‘Misinformation’

Facebook limits WhatsApp message forwarding to just five people, down from the previous 20

6 years ago

Collection 1 Data Breach Exposes 773 Million Email Addresses

One of the largest ever data breaches includes hundreds of millions emails and 21 million passwords

6 years ago

German Suspect Confesses To Mass Data Leak

20 year old student admits he was behind massive data leak of German politicians, celebrities and public figures

6 years ago

Merkel Included In Hack Of German Politicians

Personal data belonging to Chancellor Angela Merkel included in hack of hundreds of German politicians

6 years ago

Android Weather App Collects Personal Data, Warns Upstream

Pre-installed weather app has been harvesting email addresses and mobile identity numbers

6 years ago

US Newspapers Hit By Cyber-Attack

Printing and distribution of major US newspapers disrupted at the weekend after cyber-attack

6 years ago

US Files Charges Against Two ‘Chinese Government Hackers’

Two Chinese men belonging to Advanced Persistent Threat 10 hacking group are charged by US authorities

6 years ago

US Ballistic Missile System Riddled With Cyber Vulnerabilities

Hackable ICBMs? America's ballistic missile system is poor secured and includes an unpatched vulnerability from 1990

6 years ago

NASA Staff Data Stolen In Server Hack

Houston, we have a problem. Server breach at American agency sees data stolen from past and current staff

6 years ago