Security News

After 2016 Hack, Illinois Says Election System Secure
2018-10-17 12:57

Illinois officials assured voters Tuesday that their Nov. 6 tallies "will be securely counted" following a data breach that's part of the Justice Department's investigation of Russian meddling in...

Now this might be going out on a limb, but here's how a branch.io bug left '685 million' netizens open to website hacks
2018-10-12 20:34

Tinder subdomain flaw turns into massive everybody flaw Bug-hunters have told how they uncovered a significant security flaw that affected the likes of Tinder, Yelp, Shopify, and Western Union –...

Facebook mass hack last month was so totally overblown – only 30 million people affected
2018-10-12 19:27

Good news: 20m feared pwned are safe. Bad news: That's still 30m profiles snooped... Facebook users can relax and get back to interacting with quality content and authentic individuals on the...

Triangulating Beyond the Hack: Stolen Records Just One Tool in a Comprehensive Kit
2018-10-10 18:10

Technical Hacks to Compromise Sensitive Systems Are Just One Tool in a Much Larger Toolkit In simpler times, cybersecurity was a fairly straightforward proposition. You had your firewall, your...

Magecart hacks Shopper Approved to simultaneously hit many e-commerce sites
2018-10-10 12:04

The cybercriminal groups under the Magecart umbrella strike again and again, and one of them has apparently specialized in compromising third parties to more easily get in as many online shops as...

Attackers use voicemail hack to steal WhatsApp accounts
2018-10-08 10:48

The Israeli National Cybersecurity Authority issued an alert warning that WhatsApp users could lose control of their accounts.

China Tech Stocks Lenovo, ZTE Tumble After Chip Hack Report
2018-10-05 16:16

HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese tech stocks Lenovo Group and ZTE Corp. tumbled in Hong Kong on Friday following a news report Chinese spies might have used chips supplied by another company to hack into...

US government charges seven Russians with Fancy bear hacks
2018-10-05 01:30

Largely pointless, since they're never going to stand trial In what's turning into International Cyber-Attribution Week, a US Federal grand jury has indicted seven Russian military intelligence...

Whose hack is it anyway? Cyberattack whodunnits harder than ever to solve
2018-10-04 18:51

Sophisticated groups not always so easy to pick out The growing market for commercial malware, the intermingling of state-sponsored agency's code and the blurring lines between political and...

U.S. Links North Korean Government to ATM Hacks
2018-10-03 13:36

U.S. Shares Details on North Korea’s ATM Cash-out Scheme read more