Security News

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...

Phisherman's blues: Dell support fraudster extradited from Kenya, cops to $870,000 email theft from US colleges
2019-08-02 19:42

Up to 20 years behind bars for business email compromise An email phisher found hiding in Kenya is facing up to two decades behind bars in America for scamming thousands of dollars from US universities.…

US utilities targeted with spear-phishing emails impersonating engineering licensing board
2019-08-02 09:58

If you worked in a US company in the utilities sector and received an email notification telling you that you’ve failed your “Fundamentals of Engineering” NCEES exam, would you download the...

Research shows that devices banned by US government lack basic security practices
2019-08-02 05:15

As the August 13 deadline looms for the US ban on Chinese surveillance cameras, the news cycle is re-engaged with the issue. The panic about banned cameras still being in operation shines a...

US chases fraudulent bitcoin exchange BTC-e for $100m
2019-07-30 13:19

Two years ago, the US government fined an international cybercriminal and his fraudulent bitcoin exchange over $100m. Now, it's going after them for the money.