Security News

Three ways GDPR benefits US companies
2019-05-10 05:30

It’s hard to believe we’ve almost reached the one-year anniversary of the date the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. Leading up to that May 25, 2018 date, news headlines...

US indicts a Chinese hacking crew that romped through Anthem's servers for almost a year
2019-05-09 23:30

Fujie accused of killing them softly with his scripts The US Department of Justice has announced indictments against two members of a China-based hacking crew it says was behind one of the biggest...

US minister invokes Maggie Thatcher, says she would have halted Huawei 5G rollout
2019-05-09 15:05

Mike Pompeo reaches beyond grave to read Iron Lady's mind in ongoing security spat Margaret Thatcher would not let Huawei build Britain's 5G networks, US foreign secretary Mike Pompeo claimed...

US foreign minister Mike Pompeo to give UK a bollocking over Huawei 5G plans
2019-05-08 11:05

And after that he's having tea with an archbishop. No, really America’s foreign secretary is to deliver a telling-off to the UK over the British government’s decision to maintain the Huawei status...

Malvertiser behind 100+ million bad ads indicted in the US
2019-05-08 11:00

A Ukrainian and his gang allegedly smeared malvertising for 4.5 years and tried to rent out a botnet full of infected computers.

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90% of data breaches in US occur in New York and California
2019-05-07 15:32

Half a billion records have been exposed in total, with over 86 breaches affecting the two states since January, according to Risk Based Security.

European, US Investigators Make Major Darknet Bust
2019-05-06 08:25

European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal marketplaces for drugs, hacking tools and financial-theft wares in raids in the United States, Germany...

WikiLeaks' Assange Signals He'll Fight Extradition to US
2019-05-02 15:18

Fight Over Extradition Could Continue for MonthsWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returned to court on Thursday and told a British judge that he would not voluntarily accept extradition to the U.S....

Assange Refuses Extradition to US; Long Legal Fight Expected
2019-05-02 15:14

A defiant Julian Assange told a London court Thursday he will fight extradition to the United States to face charges of conspiring to hack into a Pentagon computer, arguing that his work as...

US Calls for Cautious EU Policy on 5G Networks
2019-05-02 12:31

The United States on Thursday urged "like-minded governments" from the European Union to be cautious and coordinate their policies on 5G network security in light of suspicions over the system...