Security News

US indicts alleged Chinese spies for hacking aerospace companies
2018-11-01 11:40

The DOJ described five years of stealing turbofan engine designs that relied on insiders, state-sponsored hackers, phishing and malware.

U.S. Accuses China of Hacking Aerospace, Tech Companies
2018-10-31 07:56

Chinese intelligence officers recruited hackers and insiders to help them steal sensitive information from aerospace and technology companies, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday. read more

What we need to worry about with election hacking
2018-10-30 20:22

Cris Thomas (aka Space Rogue), global strategy lead at IBM X-Force Red, says that voters need to put election hacking vulnerability risks into perspective.

Election hacking: The myths vs. realities
2018-10-25 19:19

Cris Thomas, space rogue, global strategy lead at IBM X-Force Red, discusses the myths and realities of hacking election machines with CNET's Dan Patterson.

China's Hacking of the Border Gateway Protocol
2018-10-24 11:00

This is a long -- and somewhat technical -- paper by Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt about China's repeated hacking of the Internet Border Gateway Protocol (BGP): "China's Maxim ­ Leave No...

Former high school teacher pleads guilty to hacking celebrities
2018-10-24 10:29

A fifth man has pleaded guilty to federal charges of phishing celebrities' and non-celebrities logins and raiding their iCloud accounts for nude photos.

Spotted: Miscreants use pilfered NSA hacking tools to pwn boxes in nuke, aerospace worlds
2018-10-19 20:39

High-value servers targeted by cyber-weapons dumped online by Shadow Brokers Miscreants are using a trio of NSA hacking tools, leaked last year by the Shadow Brokers, to infect and spy on computer...

Cryptojackers Keep Hacking Unpatched MikroTik Routers
2018-10-19 13:18

Vigilante Hacker Is Killing Unpatched Routers' Remote Administration AbilityCryptojackers and eavesdroppers are continuing to exploit a one-time zero-day flaw in unpatched MikroTik routers,...

Ex-Virginia Teacher Charged in 2014 'Celebgate' Hacking
2018-10-18 10:37

A former Virginia high school teacher is the fifth person charged in an investigation into the 2014 "celebgate" scandal in which hackers obtained nude photographs and other private information...

LuminosityLink Hacking Tool Author Gets 30-Months Prison Sentence
2018-10-17 14:18

A 21-year-old Kentucky man who previously pleaded guilty to developing, marketing, and selling an infamous remote access trojan (RAT) called LuminosityLink has now been sentenced to 30 months in...