Security News

UK, US users hit with credit card-themed spam spreading ransomware (Help Net Security)
2016-03-02 14:43

Symantec researchers have spotted an unusual ransomware delivery campaign hitting mostly UK and US users: fake emails apparently coming from Visa are urging recipients to “take advantage of even...

UK security tribunal decides GCHQ’s hacking is legal (Help Net Security)
2016-02-15 22:04

The UK GCHQ intelligence agency’s hacking of computers, mobile devices, smart devices, and computer networks has been ruled to be legal, no matter where it happens in the world, and that it is...

UK activists dumps 2.5 GB of data stolen from US police union (Help Net Security)
2016-02-01 14:20

Last Thursday, UK-based researcher and activist Thomas White has made available for download 2.5 GB of data stolen in a recent hack of the computer systems of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the ...