Security News

How China Exploits Social Media to Influence American Public
2019-03-08 14:37

The growth of Russia's attempts to manipulate American public opinion since 2015 is well known and documented. At heart, it is basic political propaganda -- which is an accepted tool of...

Potential Privacy Lapse Found in Americans' 2010 Census Data
2019-02-20 02:55

An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from obscured data, but...

Um, I'm not that Gary, American man tells Ryanair after being sent other Gary's flight itinerary
2019-01-03 15:11

Airline told me it can't fix fat-fingered email confusion, says NJ bloke Infamous no-frills Irish airline Ryanair has been accused by a tormented man from New Jersey in the US of bombarding him...

American bloke hauls US govt into court after border cops cuffed him, demanded he unlock his phone at airport
2018-12-18 21:43

California traveler wants damages for being made to open mobe, miss flight A California man is suing the US government for civil rights violations after he was apparently detained and forced to...

57m Americans’ details leaked online by another misconfigured server
2018-11-30 11:30

Misconfigured Elasticsearch servers spilled personal details on 57 million Americans, said reports this week.

North Korean Hackers Hit Latin American Banks
2018-11-23 15:32

The North Korean hacking group know as Lazarus recently targeted financial institutions in Latin America, Trend Micro security researchers have discovered.  read more

Why e-commerce is winning: Most Americans now trust online retailers with their data
2018-11-21 15:45

Despite conflicting opinions about online privacy, customers choose to shop with companies that take reasonable security precautions.

Guess who's back, back again? China's back, hacking your friends: Beijing targets American biz amid tech tariff tiff
2018-11-09 03:20

Everything little thing Xi does is magic, everything Xi do just turns me intrusion alarms on Three years after the governments of America and China agreed not to hack corporations in each other's...

COSCO’s American Operations Hit With Crippling Ransomware Attack
2018-07-26 16:43

The Shanghai-based shipping giant's website and phones remained down two days after the attack.

Massive Breach at Data Broker Exactis Exposes Millions of Americans
2018-06-29 15:10

Security Researcher Vinny Troia has discovered another sensitive database exposed on the internet. This one uses Elasticsearch, which allows easy data searching over the internet. Elasticsearch...