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Russian spies hacked a Ukrainian energy company at the center of the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump, a cybersecurity firm said Monday. The GRU figured heavily in the Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, which concluded that Russia hacked the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's campaign to help Trump.
Late last month Citrix disclosed a critical security hole in its Application Delivery Controller and Unified Gateway offerings. Up to 80,000 systems were thought to be at risk, with some 25,000 instances found online over the weekend.
Kuwait on Wednesday denied reports that the United States had decided to withdraw its troops from the Gulf state, saying the Twitter account of its official news agency had been hacked. The state-run Kuwait News Agency tweeted that the Kuwaiti defence minister had been informed by the commander of US forces in the emirate of their intention to withdraw from the Arifjan base within three days.
Authorities in Thailand say they are investigating an apparent online break-in by a computer hacker that allowed him to broadcast surveillance video from inside a prison in the country's south. read more
Lab test provider LifeLabs said Tuesday that it paid a ransom to secure data for Canadians that was stolen in a data breach in late October. read more
LifeLabs, which does blood work and other tests across Canada, said in a letter to customers that their names, contact information, health card numbers and lab test results were exposed in a cyber...
Version 79 of Chrome is out, and it promises to do a better job of protecting you against phishing sites and credential stuffing attacks.
The website of American gunmaker Smith & Wesson was hacked late last month and the hackers planted malicious code designed to steal customers’ payment card information read more
For researchers at testing outfit AV-Test, the SMA M2 kids’ smartwatch is just the tip of an iceberg of terrible security.
The Taococo FREDI baby monitor has repeatedly been criticized for being easy to hack.