Ariana Grande Brother’s Twitter Account Hacked
The Twitter account of Frankie Grande has been hacked on Thursday, the perpetrator leaving an explicit message to his sister, singer Ariana Grande. Frankie Grande is currently in the Big Brother house,...
View ArticleU.S. Colleges and Universities Are Failing at Cyber Security
According to a recent BitSight report, the higher education sector is less secure than retail or healthcare.
View ArticleCredentials Can Be Stolen in UI State Inference Attack
A new form of cyber attacks has been discovered, leveraging information about current state of an applications interface and leading to compromise of sensitive information, such as log in credentials....
View ArticleResearchers Target Shared Memory to Hack Android Apps
Researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Riverside have developed a new attack method that can be used to obtain sensitive information from applications running on...
View ArticleVulnerability Found in Google Wallet, Alipay Payment SDKs
Researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a security hole that can be exploited to launch phishing attacks against users who make payments from their Android mobile devices.
View ArticleLookout Opening Technology Development Center in Boston
San Francisco-based Mobile Security Firm Makes Commitment to Boston
View ArticleSylvester Stallone Died in Horrible Car Accident – Facebook Scam
One of the latest scams circulating on Facebook tries to trick the social networks users into believing that Sylvester Stallone died in a car accident; the endgame of the deceit is to make users give...
View Article‘BotMaker’ Helps Twitter Reduce Spam by 40 Percent
Spam is highly problematic on Twitter, which is why the social media network has developed a system that helps its efforts to keep users’ feeds free of unsolicited or malicious posts.
View ArticleLessons Learned From UPS Store Breach
The security breach discovered at a few dozen franchises of the UPS Store, a subsidiary of United Parcel Service, provides a number of lessons for other retailers.
View ArticleMore Than 1,000 Businesses Hit by Same Cyber Attack as Target
Target wasn’t the only business that experienced a cyber attack that compromised tens of millions of its customers’ credit cards, according to the Secret Service.
View ArticleDyre Banking Trojan Delivered in JP Morgan Phishing Email
Fake messages purporting to be from JP Morgan Chase banking service serves a version of Dyre banking Trojan that went undetected by any of the major antivirus engines on VirusTotal. Dyre is a recently...
View ArticleMeetMe Social Network Systems Breached
Hackers managed to gain unauthorized access to the computer systems of the MeetMe social network, affecting an undisclosed number of users. The company discovered that the intrusion occurred between...
View ArticleSecret Service: Over 1,000 Business Infected With “Backoff” Point-of-sale...
The United States Secret Service estimated more than 1,000 businesses have been infected by the “Backoff” point-of-sale malware, and many of them are unaware they have been compromised, according to a...
View ArticleCredit Card Details of 900 Stolen from Otto Pizza in Portland
An intrusion on the systems of the Otto Pizza restaurant in Portland, Oregon, caused credit card information of 900 customers to be exposed to unauthorized individuals leveraging an undisclosed...
View ArticleWhat it takes to fight a global war against cyber criminals
Throngs of people, dressed completely, elegantly, blindingly, in white showed up to Yaletown’s David Lam Park to partake in the biggest Diner en Blanc to hit Vancouver yet.
View ArticleCyber attack on government contractor exposes undercover agents
Multiple undercover investigators had their personal data exposed to hackers after a cyber attack struck a key contractor of the Department of Homeland Security in early August.
View ArticleBackoff PoS Malware Impacts More than 1,000 Businesses
Point-of-sale (PoS) malware BackOff leveraged in the recent intrusion on UPS systems in 51 locations across the US is estimated to impact more than 1,000 businesses. Backoff is a recently discovered...
View ArticlePhilippines Hunts New Suspects in New ‘Sextortion’ Ring
MANILA – Philippine police arrested eight suspects and are hunting more in connection with an Internet extortion racket that has victimized hundreds of people in Hong Kong, Singapore and Macau, an...
View ArticleApp attacks: How can mobile users stay safe?
Noah Meloccaro, right, compares his older iPhone 4s to the new iPhone 5 held by Both Gatwech, outside the Apple Store in Omaha, Neb.
View ArticleHerald on Sunday editorial: We’re all wiser to the ways of power
Whatever voters do with the private emails an unidentified hacker has made public, they are better informed.
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