Security News

Equifax how-it-was-mega-hacked damning dossier lands, in all of its infuriating glory
2018-12-11 20:37

'Entirely preventable' theft down to traffic-monitoring certificate left expired for 19 months A US Congressional report outlin]ing the breakdowns that lead to the 2017 theft of 148 million...

Linux.org hacked and plastered with anti-transgender filth
2018-12-07 21:12

Web admin blames public Whois and lack of 2FA Linux.org was hacked on Friday morning, with the hacker plastering the message "G3T 0WNED L1NUX N3RDZ" complete with expletives and a very NSFW image...

Another Electronic Health Records Vendor Hacked
2018-12-07 21:03

Ransomware Attack Hits Cloud-Based EHR Firm, Affecting Data of Eye ClinicYet another cyberattack against a cloud-based electronic health records vendor has been revealed. This one involved a...

Quora Gets Hacked – 100 Million Users Data Stolen
2018-12-04 07:03

The World's most popular question-and-answer website Quora has suffered a massive data breach with unknown hackers gaining unauthorized access to potentially sensitive personal information of...

Schumer Says Marriott Should Pay to Replace Hacked Passports
2018-12-03 15:51

Sen. Charles Schumer says Marriott hotel officials should pay for new passports for customers whose passport numbers were hacked as part of a massive data breach. read more

YouTuber PewDiePie Promoted Via 50K Hacked Printers
2018-12-03 14:53

The incident sheds light on just how insecure printers are.

Someone Hacked 150,000 Printers to Promote PewDiePie YouTube Channel
2018-12-01 10:48

This may sound crazy, but it’s true! The war for "most-subscribed Youtube channel" crown between T-Series and PewDiePie just took an interesting turn after a hacker yesterday hijacked more than...

Marriott's Starwood hotels mega-hack: Half a BEEELLION guests' deets hacked over four YEARS
2018-11-30 12:28

One of, but not the worst, in history US hotel chain Marriott has admitted that a breach of its Starwood subsidiary's guest reservation network has exposed the entire database – all 500 million...

3ve Offline: Countless Windows PCs using 1.7m IP addresses hacked to 'view' up to 12 billion adverts a day
2018-11-28 01:32

Feds, Google, security orgs dismantle fraud botnet, eight people charged A collection of cybersecurity companies, Google, and the Feds are sharing details on how they uncovered and dismantled a...

How Just Opening A Site In Safari Could Have Hacked Your Apple macOS
2018-11-22 09:03

Earlier this week Dropbox team unveiled details of three critical vulnerabilities in Apple macOS operating system, which altogether could allow a remote attacker to execute malicious code on a...