Security News

Man Accused of Hacking Into Bank Account, Stealing $300,000
2018-08-28 15:50

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Police have arrested a Connecticut man they allege hacked into someone's retirement account and stole more than $300,000. Hartford police say 36-year-old Kwadjo Osei-Wusu,...

Sacrilegious Spies: Russians Tried Hacking Orthodox Clergy
2018-08-27 16:20

Russian Hackers Who Bedeviled 2016 U.S. Election Also Spied on Senior Orthodox Christian Figures read more

Leaker of Secret Report on Russian Hacking Gets 5 Years
2018-08-24 04:46

A former government contractor who pleaded guilty to mailing a classified U.S. report to a news organization was sentenced to more than five years in prison Thursday as part of a deal with...

Hacking smart plugs to enter business networks
2018-08-23 19:20

McAfee researchers have discovered a buffer overflow flaw in Belkin’s Wemo Insight Smart Plug that can be exploited by attackers to access and interfere with other networked devices and the...

Microsoft's Anti-Hacking Efforts Make it an Internet Cop
2018-08-22 12:58

Intentionally or not, Microsoft has emerged as a kind of internet cop by devoting considerable resources to thwarting Russian hackers. read more

Critical Flaws in Ghostscript Could Leave Many Systems at Risk of Hacking
2018-08-22 08:33

Google Project Zero's security researcher has discovered a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Ghostscript—an open source interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and PDF page...

Hacking Elections: Georgia's Midterm Electronic Voting in the Dock
2018-08-21 12:55

The security of electronic voting and the direct-recording election (DRE) voting machines used has been questioned for years. The upcoming U.S. midterm elections in November, coupled with the...

Australian Teenager Pleads Guilty to Hacking Apple
2018-08-17 15:18

Defense Attorney Says His Young Client Dreamed of Working for iPhone GiantAn Australian teenager was such a fan of Apple that he hacked into the technology giant's mainframe, according to media...

Hacking Police Bodycams
2018-08-15 11:04

Suprising no one, the security of police bodycams is terrible. Mitchell even realized that because he can remotely access device storage on models like the Fire Cam OnCall, an attacker could...

Why hacking industrial control systems is an extension of statecraft
2018-08-14 12:59

When I have a bad day it's a bad day for a lot of people, says Sergio Caltagirone, former NSA cyber-defense expert and director of threat intelligence at Dragos.