Australian attorney-general ‘embarrassing and borderline hysterical’ on...
Australian Attorney-General Senator George Brandis has refused to back down from remarks where he labelled former NSA contractor Edward Snowden as a traitor who has put Australian lives at risk.
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A woman tried getting back at her ex-husband by creating a Facebook account to post nude pictures of her ex-husband’s current girlfriend, police said.
View ArticleMalware Alert: Incoming Fax Report
Fake fax report emails are being sent out by cybercriminals in an effort to trick users into downloading a piece of malware onto their computers. According to Hoax Slayer, the emails are entitled...
View ArticleNIST Releases Cyber Security Framework for Critical Industries
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued today the final version of a set of cybersecurity guidelines meant to help critical industries better protect themselves. The...
View ArticleEmbassy Suites Acknowledges Data Breach
Credit card information was illegally obtained ‘with a manual device,’ according to the hotel.
View ArticleLaw Firm Loses All Files to CryptoLocker Ransomware
Thousands of legal documents were rendered inaccessible by the malware.
View ArticleCloudFlare Hit by Largest-Ever DDoS Attack
‘Someone’s got a big, new cannon,’ the company’s CEO tweeted. ‘Start of ugly things to come.’
View ArticlePre-installed Computrace Software Could be Used to Hijack Computers:...
Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab claim in a new report that the Computrace agent residing in the firmware of many popular laptop and desktop computers can be used as a springboard for attackers....
View ArticleHere’s How Hackers Stole 110 Million Americans’ Data From Target
More than 110 million Target customers had their credit-card information stolen because at least one employee of a heating and air-conditioning contractor succumbed to an email phishing scheme,...
View ArticleNew IE 10 Zero-Day Used in Watering Hole Attack Targeting U.S. Military
Security researchers from FireEye have discovered a new IE 10 Zero-Day exploit (CVE-2014-0322) being used in a watering hole attack on the US Veterans of Foreign Wars’ website. Dubbed “Operation...
View ArticleHackers circulate thousands of FTP credentials, New York Times among those hit
Thousands of FTP servers have been compromised in an attack that, in some cases, saw hackers create links to the servers that redirected people to work-at-home schemes, such as in the case of the New...
View ArticleNew Internet Explorer 10 zero-day exploit targets U.S. military
A new zero-day exploit within IE 10 has been discovered in what is called “Operation Snowman,” resulting in rapid investigation by Microsoft.
View ArticleIE10 Under Attack as Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Bug
Computerworld – FireEye today said it had discovered that attackers are actively exploiting a new, unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer 10 .
View ArticleEmail Addresses and Passwords of over 2,000 Tesco Customers Leaked Online
On February 12, a file containing the email addresses, clear text passwords, and loyalty card balances of 2,239 customers of the supermarket giant Tesco were published by someone on Pastebin. The...
View ArticleForbes Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
The website of Forbes appears to have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. A story entitled Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army has been added to the list of articles written by Forbes Andy...
View ArticleSchool’s website hacked, nude photos added
C1 3 A cyber attack today on the Urbandale School District’s website! Hackers replaced the home page with three pornographic pictures! Ben Jordan is live at Urbandale High School to explain.
View ArticleThousands of FTP Servers Compromised, UNICEF and NYT Impacted
Cybercriminals possess the credentials needed to access more than 7,000 FTP servers belonging to organizations from all over the world, including small businesses, ISPs, multinational corporations and...
View ArticleCybercriminals Abuse Twilio and Ow.ly for SMS Phishing Attack
Cloudmark warns that cybercriminals are sending out phishing SMS messages in an attempt to trick the customers of US-based mobile operators into handing over their account login credentials. The...
View ArticleExperts Find Fake SSL Certificates for Banks, ISPs, and Social Networking Sites
Netcraft has come across dozens of fake SSL certificates that are being used by cybercriminals to increase their malicious operations chances of success. The fake certificates are being leveraged to...
View ArticleForbes Hackers Exposed 1 Million Users’ Info
User names, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords were published online.
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