Security News

What attackers want when 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.

Cathay Pacific hack: Personal data of up to 9.4 million airline passengers laid bare
2018-10-25 10:37

Passport numbers, credit card info etc – combo of stuff leaked 'varies for each' poor sod Cathay Pacific has admitted that personal data on up to 9.4 million passengers, including their passport...

How Colorado voting became a cybersecurity leader long before Russians tried to hack it
2018-10-24 13:16

Colorado offers extensive election official cybersecurity training, paper ballots, and a strong auditing system, giving it top marks in election security.

Adult Website Hack Exposes 1.2M ‘Wife Lover’ Fans
2018-10-23 14:48

A 40-year-old, easily cracked encryption method was used to protect the 98MB database of user information.

Equifax exec's inside trade shame: Software boss sentenced for mega-hack stock profit
2018-10-18 19:41

Thrown in the small house rather than the big house An Equifax executive – who knew the biz had been hacked before it was made public and banked over $75,000 in stock trades using this inside...

Weirdo Twitter messages were a glitch, not a hack
2018-10-17 16:27

Were you one of the dozens of people who got a bizarre Twitter message yesterday? It's OK. It wasn't a disturbance in the Matrix.

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...