Security News

South Korea says mystery hackers cracked advanced weapons servers
2019-01-17 08:01

No idea who could have been behind this one... The South Korea Ministry of National Defense says 10 of its internal PCs have been compromised by North Korea unknown hackers .…

Memes, messengers, and missiles: From Twitter to chat apps and weapons, security is ho-ho-hosed this Xmas
2018-12-18 01:20

Just slightly better than coal in your stocking Roundup We are now firmly into the holiday season, the Christmas parties are kicking off, and folks are swapping their Excel files for eggnog, or...

Worrying Windows 10 wrecking-ball weapon weirdly wanders wildly on worldwide web
2018-10-24 20:11

Zero-day crash'n'pwn exploit for Microsoft's latest OS disclosed, no official patch available (yet) A skilled Microsoft bug hunter with a penchant for public disclosures via Twitter has openly...

Hunt for Red Bugtober: US military's weapon systems riddled with security holes – auditors
2018-10-15 21:41

Death from a-bug. Dr Strange-bug. Top Bug. We could do this all day... Computer security vulnerabilities are widespread in US military hardware, and the Pentagon is only beginning to understand...

Security Vulnerabilities in US Weapons Systems
2018-10-10 11:21

The US Government Accounting Office just published a new report: "Weapons Systems Cyber Security: DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Vulnerabilities" (summary here). The upshot won't be a...

New Pentagon Weapons Systems Easily Hacked: Report
2018-10-09 17:40

New US weapons systems being developed by the US Department of Defense can be easily be hacked by adversaries, a new government report said on Tuesday. read more

Dutch cheesed off with Russians, expel four suspects over chemical weapons Wi-Fi spying
2018-10-04 21:37

Russia hits back: Do not 'swallow these provocations' Four alleged Russian agents have been expelled from the Netherlands after they attempted to hack the chemical weapons watchdog probing the...

Key weapon for closing IoT-era cybersecurity gaps? Artificial intelligence
2018-09-19 06:00

As businesses struggle to combat increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks, the severity of which is exacerbated by both the vanishing IT perimeters in today’s mobile and IoT era, and an...

Iranian Hackers Improve Recently Used Cyber Weapon
2018-09-05 14:16

The Iran-linked cyberespionage group OilRig was recently observed using a variant of the OopsIE Trojan that was updated with new evasion capabilities, Palo Alto Networks reports. read more

FireEye: Tech Firms' Secret Weapon Against Disinformation
2018-08-24 19:40

NEW YORK (AP) — This week has seen major social media sites step up their policing of online disinformation campaigns. Google disabled dozens of YouTube channels and other accounts linked to a...