Security News

Dash invites researchers to hack their blockchain (Help Net Security)
2017-08-07 12:00

Thousands of security researchers will be incentivized to identify critical software vulnerabilities within Dash’s code and present them to the Dash Core Team for remediation. Commencing in...

'Game of Thrones' Script Leaked After HBO Hack (Security Week)
2017-07-31 19:53

HBO said Monday its network was victimized by a cyberattack, and media reports said the hack resulted in the leak of a script of the popular series "Games of Thrones" and content from other...

Researchers remotely hack Tesla Model X (Help Net Security)
2017-07-31 16:39

Security researchers from Tencent’s Keen Security Lab have done it again: they’ve found vulnerabilities in one of Tesla’s cars and demonstrated that they can be exploited remotely to do things...

Researchers Demo Physical Attack via Car Wash Hack (Security Week)
2017-07-28 11:02

LAS VEGAS - BLACK HAT USA - Researchers have created proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits to demonstrate how hackers can cause physical damage to vehicles and injure their occupants by remotely...

Russian arrested, indicted for laundering funds from Mt. Gox hack (Help Net Security)
2017-07-27 18:57

Alexander Vinnik, a Russian man arrested on Tuesday in Greece, is allegedly the operator of digital currency exchange BTC-e, through which funds from the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange hack have been...

Ethereum Hacks (Schneier on Security)
2017-07-20 14:12

The press is reporting a $32M theft of the cryptocurrency Ethereum. Like all such thefts, they're not a result of a cryptographic failure in the currencies, but instead a software vulnerability in...

DHS, FBI warn of attempts to hack nuclear plants (ArsTechnica)
2017-07-07 03:20

Spear-phishing e-mails with malicious fake resumes targeted plant engineers.

Bitcoin, Ethereum Stolen Following Bithumb Hack (Security Week)
2017-07-05 12:30

Hackers have stolen significant amounts of Bitcoin and Ethereum after hijacking a computer belonging to an employee of Bithumb, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. read more

8tracks Prompts Password Reset After Hack (Security Week)
2017-06-30 16:50

Internet radio service 8tracks this week informed users of a database hack, prompting them to reset their passwords to prevent account compromise. read more

Wikileaks Reveals CIA Malware that Hacks Linux Computers (The Hackers News)
2017-06-30 13:03

WikiLeaks has just published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, this time detailing an alleged CIA project that allowed the agency to computers running the Linux operating systems. Dubbed...