Security News

Cathay Pacific hack: Airline admits techies fought off cyber-siege for months
2018-11-12 15:08

Initial 'suspicious activity' was full-scale data theft, it tells local lawmakers Fresh from belatedly admitting that 9.4 million passengers’ personal data was stolen by hackers, Hong Kong airline...

Irony meters explode as WordPress GDPR tool hacked, cell network hack shenanigans, crypto-backdoors, etc...
2018-11-10 08:08

Loads of bonus infosec news for your weekend Roundup This week we had broken promises in China, broken keys in Steam, and broken ..err, everything in Apache Struts.…

Bankers Life Hack Affects More Than 566,000
2018-11-08 20:18

Company Says Medicare Supplemental Plan Policyholders Among Those ImpactedBankers Life is notifying more than 566,000 individuals, including Medicare supplemental insurance policyholders, that...

Spammer scum hack 100,000 home routers via UPnP vulns to craft email-flinging botnet
2018-11-08 07:58

Look out for traffic to and from these IP addresses and ports Once again, a hundred thousand or more home routers have been press-ganged into a spam-spewing botnet, this time via Universal Plug...

How database hacks could impact elections and voters' fears
2018-10-30 19:57

Cris Thomas (aka Space Rogue), global strategy lead at IBM X-Force Red, explains SQL injection attacks and discusses how voter registration database hacks can lead to doubt in the election process.

Yahoo! $50m! hack! damages! bill!, Russian trolls menaced by Uncle Sam inaction, computer voting-machine UI confusion, and more
2018-10-27 13:19

Plus, GSA shamed for glacial notification pace Roundup This week's headlines included buggy cranes, WebEx cockups, and DNS drama.…

How to build your own IT infosec holodeck: A blueprint for crafting a virtual enterprise to prod, test and hack
2018-10-26 19:27

Massive hacker playground can be spun up on the cheap A group of Italian researchers have developed a blueprint for a massive virtualized enterprise network to allow for large-scale security tests...

Belgium: Oi, Brits, explain why Belgacom hack IPs pointed at you and your GCHQ
2018-10-26 09:10

State investigation finds non-Snowden proof of UK badness - local report GCHQ’s rumoured hacking operation against Belgacom came back into the spotlight yesterday after a local newspaper revealed...

British Airways: If you're feeling left out of our 380,000 passenger hack, then you may be one of another 185,000 victims
2018-10-25 23:53

Names, billing addresses, email addresses, card info, CVV numbers in some case... British Airways' horror hack is worse than first thought: the world's favorite airline has added 185,000...

What attackers want whey they hack email accounts
2018-10-25 13:31

Mark Risher, Google's director of product management for identity and account security, explains what hackers are looking and how Google is ramping up account security.