Security News

US Intel Chiefs Sound Alarm on Overseas Web Spying Law
2017-12-22 17:40

US intelligence chiefs on Thursday sounded the alarm about the imminent expiration of a law that allows them to spy on overseas web users, and called on Congress to renew it immediately. read more

Kaspersky Lab Sues US Government Over Ban
2017-12-19 13:18

Federal Software Ban Violates Due Process, Anti-Virus Firm AllegesKaspersky Lab has sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for issuing an order that bans the Moscow-based anti-virus firm's...

Report: Russian Hackers Target Banks in US, Britain, Russia
2017-12-15 17:18

Nearly $10 Million Stolen from 20 Institutions in Past 1½ YearsA group of Russian-speaking hackers over the past year-and-a-half has stolen nearly $10 million from banks, mostly in the United...

Greek Court Orders Extradition of Russian Bitcoin Suspect to US
2017-12-13 17:55

Greece's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that a Russian accused of laundering $4 billion using bitcoin digital currency be extradited to the United States, a court source said. read more

US man is behind the 2015 Hacking Team hack?
2017-12-12 21:26

Who’s behind the 2015 Hacking Team hack? According to a notice received by Guido Landi, one of the former Hacking Team employees that was under investigation for the hack, a 30-year old Nashville,...

MoneyTaker’s stealthy hacking spree spread from US to Russia
2017-12-11 21:12

A stealthy group of Russian-speaking hackers has been targeting financial organizations (banks, credit unions, lenders) in the US and Russia, stealing money and documentation that could be used...

Senate Confirms New US Homeland Security Chief
2017-12-06 15:47

The US Senate confirmed White House deputy chief of staff Kirstjen Nielsen as Secretary of Homeland Security on Tuesday, putting her in charge of implementing the Trump administration's...

Police vs Privacy: US Supreme Court Looks at Cell Phone Tracking
2017-11-30 20:27

Where do we go? Who do we talk to? What do we read about? Our mobile phones are troves of personal, private information, and the US Supreme Court weighed Wednesday how easily police should be able...

Windows 10 Security Feature Broken, US-CERT Warns
2017-11-21 13:03

Entropy Alert: Non-Random ASLR Leaves Systems Open To Buffer Overflow AttacksRecent versions of Windows have a security problem: They're not random enough, US-CERT warns. The problem centers on...

Amazon Creates Classified US Cloud
2017-11-21 12:16

Amazon has a cloud for U.S. classified data. The physical and computer requirements for handling classified information are considerable, both in terms of technology and procedure. I am surprised...