Snowden Offers to Help Brazil Investigate NSA Spying
BRASILIA – US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden offered to help Brazil defeat US spying Tuesday but, in an open letter, said he needs permanent political asylum to do so. The move was widely...
View ArticleGCHQ to Direct Senior Appointments at Huawei Cyber Security Center in Britain
Following recommendations from the UKs Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), the National Security Adviser has performed a review of the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Center (HCSEC). Earlier...
View ArticleThird-Party Data Breach Exposes 32,755 California Patients’ Data
The patients’ names, addresses, birthdates, medical record numbers, account numbers and health information may have been exposed.
View ArticleThe Role of File Encryption in Computer and Network Security
File encryption plays an important role in computer and network security. While other security products block computer viruses, detect intrusions, back up data, physically secure devices, or clean up...
View ArticleHackers Jailed For Casino Blackmail Attack
Two Polish computer hackers who unleashed a cyber attack to blackmail an online casino business out of millions of pounds have been jailed.
View ArticleSolarWinds Adds Increased Automation and Ease of Management to Security...
SolarWinds has made enhancements to several of the companys security management solutions, including Patch Manager, Firewall Security Manager and Log & Event Manager. The company has made...
View ArticleUS Review Panel Urges Wide-Ranging NSA Spying Overhaul
WASHINGTON – US legal and intelligence experts ordered by President Barack Obama to review National Security Agency practices on Wednesday called for a sweeping overhaul of US surveillance programs...
View ArticleSurvey Says: Mobile Devices ‘Biggest Risk’ in 2014
Security professionals tasked with managing enterprise networks are most worried about the risks posed by mobile devices, according to a new survey by the Ponemon Institute. After polling 676 security...
View ArticleLil Wayne victim of another death hoax
The Lollipop hitmaker hit headlines after a video titled, “RIP Lil Wayne, Rapper Found Dead”, surfaced online and falsely reported that the star, who is epileptic, died after suffering a seizure.
View ArticleThe 8 Hottest Security Stories of 2013
CSO – Data loss, privacy violations, stolen source code, malware development, and more.
View ArticleUS Panel’s Main Recommendations for NSA Overhaul: Facts
WASHINGTON – A review panel named by President Barack Obama has urged scaling back the National Security Agency’s electronic spying powers to protect privacy rights and shore up public trust. Here are...
View ArticleWashington Post Reports Servers Attacked, Suspects Chinese Hackers
The Washington Post’s servers were recently broken into by a group of unknown origin that gained access to the user names and passwords of its employees, the paper said on Wednesday.
View ArticleCyber War in Syria Is Accelerating, Study Says
Pro-Assad hackers in civil war-torn Syria are targeting military opponents using increasingly sophisticated malware and social engineering attacks, a new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation...
View ArticleHackers of LulzSec Peru Leak Data from Peru’s Ministry of Interior
Hacktivists of the LulzSec Peru group have once again set their sights on the systems of the Peruvian government. Their latest targets are the networks of the countrys Ministry of Interior. On...
View ArticlePictured: The Ukrainian hacker ‘who has been selling millions of…
‘I bet YOUR Christmas wasn’t ruined!’ UPS workers face torrents of abuse over scores of missed deliveries as Amazon offers refunds Drunk father ‘didn’t notice his son, four, was thrown from SUV in...
View ArticleCreator of Malware Behind Mariposa Botnet and His Former Girlfriend Sentenced
Matjaž korjanc, the creator of the Rimecud malware that powered the notorious Mariposa botnet, and his former girlfriend, Nua Čoh, have been sentenced by a Slovenian court. According to Graham Cluley,...
View ArticleSyrian Electronic Army Denies Targeting NY Times Once Again
A couple of days ago, The New York Times revealed that the FBI started warning organizations about spear phishing emails sent out by the Syrian Electronic Army. The pro-Assad hacktivist group is...
View ArticleF-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen Cancels RSA Conference Talk
Mikko Hypponen, F-Secures chief research officer and a world-renowned security expert, has decided to cancel his talk at the RSA Conference USA 2014, an event scheduled to take place in February, in...
View ArticleMoroccan Hackers Deface Website of South Africa’s Department of Health
The official website of South Africas Department of Health (doh.gov.za) has been breached and its homepage defaced by hackers of a group called Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail. On the defaced page, the...
View ArticleDogewallet Hacked, Millions of Dogecoins Stolen
Bitcoin is not the only virtual currency targeted by cybercriminals. A couple of days ago, users of Dogewallet.com, a wallet service for Dogecoins, a Litecoin-derived cryptocurrency thats worth around...
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