CyberCrime

Australia Passes Controversial Encryption Law

The day online privacy died, as Australia passes law to give police, security services access to encrypted messages

6 years ago

JavaScript Code Compromises Bitcoin Wallets

Popular JavaScript library injected with malicious code to steal coins from cryptocurrency wallet

6 years ago

GCHQ Warns Brits Of Black Friday Cybercrime

Issues top tips to help Brits avoid being a victim of cyber-crime over the Black Friday period

6 years ago

Amazon Customer Data Leaked Ahead Of Black Friday

Blames 'technical error' for disclosure of customer names and email address, as it fixes flaw

6 years ago

Cathay Pacific Admits Hack Went On For Months

Airline admits it was under sophisticated attack for months, and took six months to inform the world

6 years ago

RSA Conference 2019: Security Startups To Pitch For ‘Dragon Den’ Funding

Conference to allow security start-ups to pitch to venture capitalists, amid competition to find most innovative security start-up

6 years ago

HSBC Confirms Data Breach Of US Customers

Customers of HSBC in the United States have had their personal details including account numbers and transaction history exposed in…

6 years ago

British Airways Confirms Theft Of Additional Data

Another 185,000 payment card data stolen, after BA uncovers second hack whilst investigating the first

6 years ago

Cathay Pacific Admits Hack Of 9.4 Million Customer Records

Another data breach in the aviation industry, as airline admits compromise of personal data for 9.4 million passengers

6 years ago

National Cyber Security Centre Reveals Scale Of Cyber Attacks

Two year since its launch, NCSC helped the UK against almost 1,200 cyber attacks, most carried out by hostile nation…

6 years ago

MoD Secrets Exposed In Multiple Data Breaches – Report

Sensitive British defence data has been exposed in multiple breaches in 2017, heavily redacted incident reports show

6 years ago

Facebook Culls Hundreds Of US-based Spam, Fake News Accounts

Facebook is deleting hundreds of American accounts and pages for “inauthentic activity”

6 years ago

WhatsApp Fixes Video Call Flaw That Allowed Account Hijack

Facebook service fixes video call flaw that could allow hackers to hijack user accounts

6 years ago

Facebook Hack May Result In GDPR Penalty

Irish regulator says 10 percent of the hacked 50 million Facebook accounts are based in Europe

6 years ago

Tesco Bank Fined £16.4m By Regulator Over 2016 Cyber-Attack

That's gonna sting. Tesco's banking division has been slapped with a £16.4m fine for customer account breach

6 years ago

Hacker To Live-Stream Hack Of Zuckerberg’s Facebook Page

Big boast. Tune in on Sunday to see if hacker can deliver on promise to hack Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page

6 years ago

Judge Reluctantly Approves Georgia Voting Machines, Despite Hack Concern

X marks the vote. Not enough time to resort to secure paper-based voting system, laments US judge

6 years ago

US State Department Suffers Email System Breach

Slow roll-out of two factor authentication blamed after State Department admits email data breach

6 years ago

Bristol Airport Admits Cyber Attack Impacted Flight Display Screens

Ransomware attack took down flight display screens for two days, Bristol Airport admits

6 years ago

University Cyber Attacks Down To Students, Staff

Inside job? Cyber criminals not responsible for hacks of universities and colleges, study suggests

6 years ago

Facebook, Twitter Purge Fake News Accounts Linked To Iran, Russia

Social media giants remove hundreds of accounts linked to propaganda campaigns from Iran and Russia

6 years ago

Superdrug Admits Disclosure Of Personal Data

But pharmacy chain adamant its systems were not compromised as hacker attempted to extort money

6 years ago

Russian Political Hack Halted By Microsoft

Attack by 'Fancy Bear' hacking group to steal steal data from American think tank organisations foiled by Redmond boffins

6 years ago

Apple Network Hacked By Australian Teenager

Trouble from the land down under for iPhone maker, as Aussie fanboy breaks into Apple's main network

6 years ago

President Trump Eases Cyber Warfare Rules – Report

Reverses Obama's bureaucratic rules that dictate how and when the United States can deploy its offensive cyberweapon arsenal

6 years ago

Chinese Hackers Target Alaska Government – Report

Ahead of Alaska’s trade mission to China, hackers targetted state government and local utility firms

6 years ago

FBI Warns Of ATM Hacking Campaign

Banks on fraud alert after the FBI warn that thieves could steal cash using cloned ATM cards

6 years ago

Intel CPUs At Risk From Foreshadow Flaw

Not again. Intel rocked by another data stealing vulnerability that affects the secure CPU enclave

6 years ago