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Michigan Jail Hacker Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison

Hacker who tried to secure an early release for a friend will instead go to jail himself

7 years ago

Hack Lets Burglars Enter Locked Hotel Rooms Without Leaving A Trace

F-Secure's method works on locks used in major hotels around the world

7 years ago

NHS Fixes Defaced Data Website

The defaced NHS England page had been displaying a hacker message for several days

7 years ago

iPhones Open To Wi-Fi ‘Trust’ Hijacking

RSA 2018: Attackers can steal data from iPhones over Wi-Fi by abusing a sync feature built into iTunes

7 years ago

MPs: A Year After WannaCry, NHS Must Take ‘Urgent’ Security Action

The NHS and the government have failed to act on lessons learned from the incident, Public Accounts Committee says

7 years ago

NCSC Warns ZTE Poses ‘Risk To UK National Security’

ZTE equipment should not be widely deployed in UK networks as it poses a 'risk of external interference'

7 years ago

Great Western Railway Resets Passwords After Hackers Access Accounts

The company said about 1,000 users' accounts were breached using duplicate passwords harvested elsewhere on the web

7 years ago

Hacking Group Targets Mac Systems For Data Theft

Mac users shouldn't be lulled into a false sense of security, warns Trend Micro

7 years ago

US Blames Russia For Energy Grid Attacks

United States officials have for the first time publicly blamed the Russian government for two years of cyber attacks on…

7 years ago

Researchers Identify Malware That Disrupted Pyeongchang Olympics Launch

The code was preloaded with usernames and passwords for the Pyeongchang Olympic Games' official servers, indicating a sophisticated attacker

7 years ago

Attack Takes Down Pyeongchang Games Web Systems

The website of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics was disabled for about 12 hours after a cyberattack that affected 'non-critical' servers

7 years ago

Thousands Of Government Sites Hacked To Mine Cryptocurrency

The hack affected the ICO, the NHS and thousands of government and academic organisations in the UK, the US and…

7 years ago

NCSC Programme Blocks 30 Million Phishing Emails In One Month

The National Cyber Security Centre's 'Active Cyber Defence' strategy has blocked millions of scam emails imitating government addresses

7 years ago

Adobe: Unpatched Flash Bug Has Been Used In Attacks Since November

The latest security issue with Flash Player has been exploited by North Korean attackers in targeted hacks since late last…

7 years ago

Study Finds Top Sites Can Be Impersonated Using Non-Latin Alphabet

Homograph attacks using international characters to spoof well-known web domains were found targeting more than 100 top brands

7 years ago

OnePlus Confirms 40,000 Customers Affected By Hack

A malicous script was injected into oneplus.net's payment page, recording card details as they were entered into the browser

7 years ago

‘Russian’ Fancy Bear State-Backed Hackers Attack US Senate

The Fancy Bear hacking group, best known for infiltrating the DNC, is making efforts to steal information from US political…

7 years ago

SWIFT Warns Banks Of Increasing Digital Robberies

Hackers are using increasingly sophisticated tools and techniques for attacks against banks, SWIFT warns

7 years ago

Interpol & Cisco To Combat Cyber Crime At Singapore Nerve Centre

Cisco is to contribute its world-spanning cyber-threat analysis to help battle increasingly sophisticated internet threats

7 years ago

Harvard University Recommends How To Stop Election Hackers

The new Harvard programme is intended to put local and national election campaigns on guard against nation state hacking attacks

7 years ago

IT LIFE: Toni Gidwani, Threat Connect

ThreatConnect's director of research discusses her career in IT and her investigations in to some of the most notable hacks…

7 years ago

NCSC To Revamp Cyber Risk Management Guidance

The National Cyber Security Centre said it will aim to present a 'toolbox' of approaches for different types of organisations…

7 years ago

Kaspersky Lab Obtained NSA Code From PC Also Infected With Backdoor

Kaspersky's security software had stumbled across NSA code in 2014, but the PC in question was also infected with a…

7 years ago

Mirai-Like IoT Botnet ‘Has Already Hacked Millions Of Devices’

The Reaper botnet is expanding more aggressively than Mirai did and has the potential to cause more disruption, researchers say

7 years ago

US Government Warns Of ‘Ongoing’ Attacks On Energy, Nuclear Sectors

Critical industries including energy, nuclear and manufacturing have been targeted for cyber-espionage since earlier this year

7 years ago

Google Adds ‘Advanced Protection’ Account Security Option

The feature, aimed at 'high-risk' users including politicians, journalists and dissidents, requires two hardware keys amongst other protections

7 years ago

Microsoft ‘Did Not Disclose 2013 Breach Of Bug Database’

In the incident, which Microsoft described at the time as limited, hackers reportedly accessed the company's internal database of unfixed…

7 years ago

Eastern European Banks Hit By £100m Cyber Crime Wave

A string of related thefts targeting banks in eastern Europe and former Soviet countries involved the coordination of physical and…

7 years ago

Fake AdBlock Plus Chrome Extension Installed By More Than 30,000 Users

Google has removed malware that appeared identical to the AdBlock Plus advert blocker and was listed on the official Chrome…

7 years ago

GCHQ Head: Cyber Threats Now As Dangerous As Spying

GCHQ must become a cyber organisation and make the protection of the 'digital homeland' part of its core mission, Jeremy…

7 years ago