Security News

16-Year-Old Boy Who Hacked Apple's Private Systems Gets No Jail Time
2018-09-27 19:33

An Australian teenager who pleaded guilty to break into Apple's private systems multiple times over several months and download some 90GB of secure files has avoided conviction and will not serve...

Cybercrime Markets Sell Access to Hacked Sites, Databases
2018-09-21 09:48

Payment Card Theft, Ransomware Facilitated by Cybercrime-as-a-Service OfferingsOne mystery with the recently discovered payment card sniffing attacks against such organizations as British Airways...

Japan Digital Currency Exchange Hacked, Losing $60 Million
2018-09-20 10:40

TOKYO (AP) — Hackers have stolen 6.7 billion yen ($60 million) worth of cryptocurrencies from a Japanese digital currency exchange, the operators said Thursday. read more

Western Digital's My Cloud NAS Devices Turn Out to Be Easily Hacked
2018-09-19 09:33

Security researchers have discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability in Western Digital's My Cloud NAS devices that potentially allows an unauthenticated attacker to gain admin-level...

US State Department confirms: Unclassified staff email boxes hacked
2018-09-18 21:57

Pompeo's peeps get free credit monitoring after some inboxes cracked open, data swiped The US State Department has confirmed one of its email systems was attacked, potentially exposing the...

Oh Smeg! Hacked white goods maker resurfaces after system shutdown
2018-09-18 12:41

'No reason to believe' customer deets compromised The Brit limb of unfortunately named and reassuringly expensive domestic appliance maker Smeg is up on its feet again after being hacked.…

How To Check If Your Twitter Account Has Been Hacked
2018-09-13 13:33

Did you ever wonder if your Twitter account has been hacked and who had managed to gain access and when it happened? Twitter now lets you know this. After Google and Facebook, Twitter now lets you...

Card-stealing code that pwned British Airways, Ticketmaster pops up on more sites via hacked JS
2018-09-12 20:34

Feedify's whack-a-mole with MageCart malware miscreants A Javascript library hosted by Feedify and used by e-commerce websites globally has been repeatedly infected this week to potentially siphon...

Generally Disclosing Pretty Rapidly: GDPR strapped a jet engine on hacked British Airways
2018-09-12 07:27

Suddenly, corps in a rush to fess up to e-break-ins Analysis If Equifax's mother-of-all-security-disasters last year underlined one thing, it was that big companies think they can weather just...

Using Hacked IoT Devices to Disrupt the Power Grid
2018-09-11 11:25

This is really interesting research: "BlackIoT: IoT Botnet of High Wattage Devices Can Disrupt the Power Grid": Abstract: We demonstrate that an Internet of Things (IoT) botnet of high wattage...