CyberCrime

Corporate IT, Security Teams Need to Put Aside Mutual Distrust

ANALYSIS: For years a major threat to enterprises has been a gap between IT departments and the security teams competing…

8 years ago

Ukrainian Hackers Claim To Have Breached And Leaked Kremlin Emails

The emails purportedly show Russia could have a plan to carve up pro-Russian parts of Ukraine

8 years ago

Yandex Is The First Russian Tech Firm To Join The CVE

The company wants to be transparent in how it discovers and protects against cyber security flaws

8 years ago

Cyber Security Challenge UK Tasks Hackers With Energy Firm Defence

Challenge sees amateurs battle to protect energy firm from cyber attacks, both internal and external

8 years ago

Zero-Day Security Hole In Wix Hosting Service Exposed Millions Of Websites

Infected sites could have been turned into botnets to launch DDoS attacks and spread malware

8 years ago

National Cyber Security Centre Head: Fearmongering Must Be Replaced With Facts

National Cyber Security Centre chief Dr Ian Levy wants an empirical, transparent approach to cybersecurity policy - not hysteria

8 years ago

Facebook Blocks Insurance Firm Admiral From Using Profile Data

Is Facebook a privacy champion? Admiral banned from using FB data in order to price insurance policies

8 years ago

Microsoft Blames Russia For Exploiting Google-Exposed Windows Flaw

Microsoft says Russian hackers behind exploit of unpatched Windows flaw, revealed by Google

8 years ago

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Hackers Could Exploit Open Data To Wreak Real-World Chaos

ODI founders want the government to consider open data as critical infrastructure that needs protection

8 years ago

UK Government Pledges ‘To Strike Back’ In Cyberwar As It Invests £1.9bn In Cybersecurity

Philip Hammond outlines the government's new cybersecurity strategy and how £1.9 billion will boost defences, enable law enforcement and aid…

8 years ago

ShadowBrokers Data Dump Leaks Compromised Servers Used By NSA For Hacking Operations

The servers are claimed to have been used by NSA-sponsored Equation Group as staging areas for covert hacking activity

8 years ago

Twitter’s Sponsored Tweets Used For Credit Card Phishing

Malwarebytes finds a scam masquerading under the offer of Twitter verification

8 years ago

Google’s AI Neural Networks Learn To Create Their Own Encryption

Two neural nets were created to communicate securely while a third tried to crack their inhuman cipher messages

8 years ago

Data Breach Exposes 550,000 Australian Red Cross Blood Service Donors

Security flaws on the organisation’s website led to personal data bleeding out after a basic hack attack

8 years ago

Government’s Free Train Wi-Fi Project Has ‘No Mandatory Cybersecurity Guidelines’

FoI request shows train operators that apply for £50m free wi-fi fund will be left to their own devices when…

8 years ago

Tech Support Scam Uses Fake ‘Blue Screen Of Death’

New malware scam urges users to call a number when confronted with a fake blue screen of death

8 years ago

Adobe Rushes Out Emergency Patch For Flash

A vulnerability in Flash is being actively exploited, prompting Adobe to issue an emergency patch

8 years ago

Dirty COW Linux Flaw Can Root Android Devices

Long standing Linux vulnerability also impacts Android and can be used to root devices, researcher warns

8 years ago

Microsoft Azure IoT Protects Against Cyber Attacks With Expert-Driven Security Program

Third-party security auditors will be brought in to help Microsoft Azure customers secure their Internet of Things deployments

8 years ago

Massive Cyber-Attack Shows Risk Of Poor Security On Network Nodes

ANALYSIS: While the details regarding the sources and methods of the Oct. 21 DDoS attack that took down vast areas…

8 years ago

Twitter, Spotify And Other Major Sites Disrupted By DDoS Attack On Dyn DNS

The attack was made against DNS host provider Dyn, which provides a traffic routing service for the sites.

8 years ago

What Makes Ransomware the Worst Type of Malware

In a SecTor keynote, F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen explains why ransomware is so bad and what the Russians really have in…

8 years ago

Oracle Fixes 253 Security Flaws In October Update

Oracle's latest Critical Patch Update, which fixes 253 vulnerabilities, is the company's second-largest CPU ever.

8 years ago

Adult FriendFinder Sex And Dating Website Allegedly Hacked Again

Surely not? Hackers claim to have penetrated (ahem) online sex and swinger website yet again

8 years ago

Yahoo Calls For US Intelligence To Declassify Email Surveillance Order

UPDATED: The email giant wants the US government to publish the order so it can accurately respond to claims it…

8 years ago

London City Bankers Under Fire From Ransomware Cyber Attacks

The City experiences more ransomware attacks than the rest of the UK combined

8 years ago

Selfie Stealing Android Trojan Discovered By McAfee Labs

Tweaked Acecard trojan aims to trick gullible Android users into sending selfies and photos of their IDs

8 years ago

Foxconn Firmware Flaw Leaves Android Devices Vulnerable To USB Hack

Dubbed Pork Explosion the flaw allows Android security protocols to be bypassed

8 years ago

Yahoo Hack: Verizon Could Withdraw From $4.83 Billion Acquisition Deal

Verizon believes Yahoo's massive data breach by hackers does give it reason to walk away from its acquisition

8 years ago

Thousands Of Online Stores Fail To Protect Payment Details From Hackers

Shop shock. Hackers have compromised nearly 6,000 online shops to skim payment card data. And the problem is getting worse

8 years ago