CyberCrime

Sony Music Apologises For Britney Death Tweet

Sony says sorry after hack of Twitter account, which was then used to claim that Britney Spears had died

8 years ago

Security Vulnerabilities Found In Airline Entertainment Systems

IOactive finds security flaws in Panasonic's Avionic In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) system that could potentially give an attacker unauthorised access

8 years ago

Android Malware Helped Russian Hackers Track Ukrainian Military

Killer malware! Russian malware on Android devices tracked and killed Ukrainian artillery units

8 years ago

Ukraine Probes Kiev Power Grid Cyber Attack

From Russia with love? Ukraine investigates weekend cyber attack on Kiev's power grid

8 years ago

Akamai Buys Startup CyberFend To Battle Bots In The Cloud And Online

Bot hunting tech will be added to Akamai's existing online security software

8 years ago

Money, Data And Disruption: Cyber Attacks Of 2016

2016 has been an interesting year for cyber security, and that's putting it mildly

8 years ago

Yahoo Suffers Biggest Data Breach In History With A Billion Accounts Hacked

Another major data breach could torpedo Yahoo’s acquisition by Verizon

8 years ago

Rehab Order For One TalkTalk Hacker As Another Teenager Faces Prison

Teenager TalkTalk hacker has iPhone confiscated, as a second teenager pleads guilty to ISP attack

8 years ago

MobileIron CEO: Windows 10 Lets Us Manage PCs Like Mobiles

INTERVIEW: MobileIron CEO Barry Mainz tells Silicon about PC management, the rise of IoT and why it is better equipped…

8 years ago

KFC Website Hack Leaks Customer Data

Clucking Hell: Another data breach shows online security needs some cooking

8 years ago

Hackers Pilfer Trade Secrets In ThyssenKrupp Cyber Attack

Hackers have looted sensitive trade secrets from a German conglomerate in latest damaging data breach

8 years ago

Ransomware Attacks Show Threefold Increase In 2016

Ransomware attacks developed significantly in 2016, both in prevalence and sophistication, making it the threat of the year for businesses…

8 years ago

Businesses Must Prepare For Bigger And Badder DDoS Attacks In 2017

Rise of the botnets levies threats at businesses and governments

8 years ago

Mirai UK Botnet Consists Mostly Of TalkTalk Routers

The Mirai botnet has spread like wildfire and now infects 2,398 home routers across the UK, with 99 percent of…

8 years ago

Millions Of Passwords, Emails And Usernames Stolen From Dailymotion In Hack

More than 85 million usernames and email addresses have been stolen by unrevealed hackers

8 years ago

IBM Watson for Cyber Security Expands With Beta Launch

40 organisations are now part of the effort to train Watson for Cyber Security in an effort to improve security…

8 years ago

Fake News Campaigns to Increase in Frequency, Security Experts Say

ANALYSIS: With the possibility that fake news may have impacted the US election, people are giving a new look to…

8 years ago

Scottish Football Association Suffers Third-Party Data Breach

"I'd rather be associated with being hacked by some porn site," says one unhappy football fan

8 years ago

Credit Cards Hacked In Six Seconds Using Distributed Technique

Visa's online payment system fails to pick up on multiple invalid credit card attempts across multiple websites

8 years ago

MAD Concept Of Deterrence Doesn’t Apply In World Of Cyber War

ANALYSIS: The rules of traditional warfare don't apply in cyber war, even to the point where it's hard to tell…

8 years ago

AWS Shield To Safeguard Web Apps From DDoS Nastiness

Amazon introduces AWS Shield managed service to protect against crippling DDoS attacks

8 years ago

Talk Talk And Post Office Broadband Taken Offline After Mirai Botnet Hack Attack

Mirai botnet strikes again, attacking routers and cutting-off broadband

8 years ago

Europol Terror Data Found On Unsecured Network Drive

Red faces at Euro cops after sensitive terror data is found online by Dutch TV programme

8 years ago

Million Google Accounts Hacked by ‘Gooligan’ Android Malware

Android malware has compromised more than one million Google accounts, warns Check Point

8 years ago

ICO Launches Probe After National Lottery Compromise

ICO begins investigation after Camelot detected 'suspicious activity' on player online accounts earlier this week

8 years ago

Up To 26,500 National Lottery Online Accounts Are Breached

National Lottery and experts suggest accounts breached by reusing compromised credentials

8 years ago

Black Friday, Cyber Monday Bring Open Season for Cyber-Criminals

ANALYSIS: You’re not paranoid. Cyber-criminals really are after your company’s money and its data and they won’t stop at anything…

8 years ago

One In Four Wi-Fi Hotspots Ripe For Hack Attacks

Cyber security firm Kaspersky finds that large amounts of Wi-Fi hotspots still lack solid security

8 years ago