Security News

US still 'not prepared' in event of a serious cyber attack and Congress can't help if it happens
2019-08-12 18:02

Politicians appeal to hackers to take up the fight DEF CON Despite some progress, the US is still massively underprepared for a serious cyber attack and the current administration isn't helping...

US military swoops into DEF CON seeking a few good hackers for debut aviation pwning village
2019-08-12 16:01

Faulty F-15s, at-risk airbases and much more DEF CON For the first time, Vegas's annual DEF CON hacking conference has an "aviation hacking village", and the US military is scouting around there...

I could throttle you right about now: US Navy to ditch touchscreens after kit blamed for collision
2019-08-12 08:59

Thousands of tons of metal and iPads don't mix, it would seem The US Navy is ditching touchscreens and going back to physical throttles after an investigation into the USS John S McCain collision...

Who will save us from deepfakes? Other AIs? Humans? What about vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings?
2019-08-09 11:04

Maybe Douglas Adams was right about mice Black Hat Deepfakes, the AI-generated talking heads that can say whatever their creator wants them to, are getting harder to detect. But boffins have...

FBI, NSA to hackers: Let us be blunt. Weed need your help. We'll hire you even if you've smoked a little pot in the past
2019-08-08 04:21

Now that's what we call a joint task force: Uncle Sam chills out, relaxes recruitment rules on drugs Black Hat America's crime-fighters, desperate to recruit white-hat hackers to collar spies and...

US Formalizes Ban on Government Contracts to China's Huawei, Others
2019-08-07 20:44

The United States unveiled rules on Wednesday formally banning technology giant Huawei and other Chinese firms from government contracts in the latest move in the countries' escalating trade war. read more

More US Lawmakers Questioning Capital One, Amazon
2019-08-07 16:33

Massive Data Breach Draws Bipartisan AttentionA little over a week after a breach at Capital One was revealed, more U.S. lawmakers are raising questions about what happened at the bank, including...

Fake Dell support rep admits to talking US colleges out of $874,000
2019-08-06 12:23

His victims: UCSD and a Pennsylvania university. He hid out in Kenya for nearly 8 months before being nabbed.

PIN the blame on us, says Monzo in mondo security blunder: Bank card codes stored in plain-text in log files
2019-08-06 05:09

Why bother go for databases when insecure log files appears to be where all the data is at Trendy online-only Brit bank Monzo is telling hundreds of thousands of its customers to pick a new PIN –...

Hackers exploit SMS gateways to text millions of US numbers
2019-08-05 14:18

Receive any strange SMS text messages recently? If you live in the US, there’s a small chance you might have received an SMS with the following text in the last few days from someone called...