hackers

NCA Warns That Two In Five Brits Ignore The Cyber Crime Threat

National Crime Agency warns web users to install software updates, even on mobiles, or risk becoming the victim of cyber…

10 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Famous Hackers

What do you know about the men who became famous by breaking stuff?

10 years ago

US Homeland Security Contractor Warns Of ‘State-Sponsored’ Breach

A US Homeland Security contractor warns its systems have been breached in what it suspects was a “state-sponsored” attack

10 years ago

Russian Hackers Gain Access To 1.2 Billion Sets Of Login Credentials

The group dubbed 'CyberVor' has been collecting data from thousands of websites, using automated botnets to check for vulnerabilities

10 years ago

ICO Fines Travel Company £150,000 Over Data Breach

Inadequate security resulted in the loss of more than a million customer credit and debit card numbers

10 years ago

Chinese Hackers Hit US Government Dept – Report

All US government personnel records may have been compromised by Chinese hackers

10 years ago

Israel Defense Force Twitter Account Hacked By SEA

The Syrian Electronic Army hacks into Israeli Army Twitter account and warns of fake nuclear leak

10 years ago

Hacker Ruins Code Spaces Development Platform

An attacker deletes almost all customer project data after a botched blackmail attempt

10 years ago

‘Guccifer’ Sentenced To Four Years In A Romanian Jail

The hacker who targeted hundreds of celebrities has been convicted

10 years ago

Footwear Chain Office Hacked, Customer Data Compromised

The attackers gained access to names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and passwords, which were apparently stored unencrypted

11 years ago

Pro-Russian Hackers Attack Central Election Commission Of Ukraine

CyberBerkut steals a huge archive of emails three days before the elections, sends it to the media agencies

11 years ago

Top Media Organisations ‘Hit Hard By Government Hackers’

Hackers, likely sponsored by governments, are hitting news organisations hard, according to research from two Google engineers

11 years ago

Cyber Crime Industry Runs Its Own Marketing, Recruitment And Customer Service

Hackers are able to earn more money than drug dealers, claims new research into cyber criminal habits sponsored by Juniper…

11 years ago

Russian Hacker Accused Of Raiding Swiss Banks Arrested In Bangkok

Farid ‘Diabl0’ Essebar, one of the creators of the Zotob worm, evaded the authorities for the last three years, and…

11 years ago

Experts Suggest Flight MH370 Could Have Fallen Victim To Hackers

In theory, a malware infection would allow the plane to be controlled remotely

11 years ago

ICO Fines British Abortion Charity £200k For Data Breach

British Pregnancy Advice Service was hacked twice in March 2012 by Anonymous hacker James Jeffrey

11 years ago

Professional Cyber Espionage Rings To Grow

Espionage on demand hacking groups are set to increase, warn experts

11 years ago

Security Experts Debate Offensive Strategy

For most enterprises, taking offensive action against cyber-attackers is probably not the best strategy, according to an International Information Systems…

11 years ago

Hackers Breach Apple Developer Centre

Attack from last week leaves developer site offline and user data has been compromised

11 years ago

Defence Firm QinetiQ Pillaged By Chinese Hackers

Chinese hackers have repeatedly stolen intellectual property and defence information from QinetiQ

12 years ago

Lulzsec Leader Arrested Down Under

Australian Federal Police have reportedly arrested the leader of the global hacking group Lulzsec

12 years ago

AP Twitter Feed Hacked And Claims White House Attack

Hackers compromised the Twitter feeds of the Associated Press and falsely reported White House explosions

12 years ago

News International Frets Over Spear Phishing Bombardment

Following attacks on rival publishers, News International CISO Amar Singh talks about his spear phishing nightmares

12 years ago

Hacktivists Hit North Korea Social Networks

Anonymous and US hacker Jester get juvenile on North Korean services

12 years ago

Google Offers Security Advice For Hacking Victims

Website owners that have been hacked can now draw on free help and advice from Google

12 years ago

Michelle Obama, Government And Celebs Targeted By Hacking Group

Joe Biden, Hilary Clinton and Mel Gibson amongst handful of high-profile targets

12 years ago

China Fires Back And Accuses US Of Hacking

China claims it is a victim of state-sponsored hacking from the US, not a perpetrator

12 years ago

China Claims IP Hijack After Hacking Allegations

China has hit back at reports that government-backed hackers are targeting Western organisations

12 years ago

Apple Admits Hack On Its Own Mac Machines

Facebook hackers reportedly responsible, as Java flaw exploited to attack major tech firms

12 years ago