Security News

Hacking Incidents Dominate 2017 Health Data Breach Tally
2017-11-02 15:03

Vast Majority of Recent Breach Victims Affected by a Hacker AttackWith less than two months left in the year, incidents involving hackers are dominating the federal tally of health data breaches...

UK Probes Equifax Hacking
2017-10-24 13:55

Britain's financial watchdog on Tuesday said it was investigating a massive hack of the US consumer credit rating service Equifax that affected potentially almost 700,000 British customers. read more

Alert: Energy Sector Hacking Campaign Continues
2017-10-23 12:33

Attackers Pivot Into Targeted Networks via Suppliers, DHS-FBI Alert WarnsThe U.S. government has issued a rare technical alert, warning that attackers are continuing to compromise organizations...

Hacking Back
2017-10-23 11:16

Hacking back is a terrible idea that just will not die. Josephine Wolff takes apart the new hacking back bill that was introduced in the House recently....

Learn Ethical Hacking — Get 8 Online Courses For Just $29
2017-10-17 06:27

With the rise in cyber-crimes, ethical hacking has become a powerful strategy in the fight against online threats. In general terms, ethical hackers are authorised to break into supposedly...

Will Kaspersky Lab Survive the Russia Hacking Scandal?
2017-10-12 13:33

Analysis: If RSA's NSA Scandal Is a Guide, Russian Anti-Virus Firm Will SurviveIt's a tale that reads stranger than fiction, a true Tom Clancy-ish yarn: Israeli spies hacked Kaspersky Lab,...

Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Caught Russian Spies Hacking American Spies, But...
2017-10-11 05:18

The cold cyber war has just turned hot. According to a story published today by the New York Times, Israeli government hackers hacked into Kaspersky’s network in 2015 and caught Russian government...

Hacking the Election: Security Flaws Need Fixing, Researchers Say
2017-10-10 20:49

Hackers could have easily infiltrated US voting machines in 2016 and are likely to try again in light of vulnerabilities in electronic polling systems, a group of researchers said Tuesday. read more

Sri Lanka Arrests Two Men over Taiwan Bank Hacking
2017-10-08 17:00

Sri Lankan police have arrested two men for allegedly helping international criminals who  hacked into computers at a Taiwan bank and stole millions of dollars, an official said Sunday. read more

Latin American ATM Thieves Turning to Hacking
2017-10-05 16:11

Thieves in Latin American countries are turning to Eastern European hackers to build ATM malware from scratch, according to a Virus Bulletin talk by researchers at Kaspersky Lab.