Malware Can Hide in the Most Obvious Places
You never know when malware will bite. Even browsing an online restaurant menu can download malicious code, put there by hackers.
View ArticleBLACKHAT Comic-Con Panel Recap: First Look at Michael Mann’s…
Michael Mann knows his crime dramas. Heat is one of the most celebrated crime flicks of all time.
View ArticleAnonymous group warns of more Kenya cyber attacks [Nation (Kenya)]
Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The ongoing cyber-attacks on web and social sites operated by the government, the military and top leaders is part of an effort to expose corruption in Kenya, a ‘hacktivist’...
View ArticleRevealed: the $3 trillion threat
While such schemes are yet to become a reality, the financial consequences of not being adequately resilient are sure to see more enterprises take notice.
View ArticleEmerging Storage, VMware And Pivotal Drive EMC’s Q2 Earnings
EMC announced its second quarter earnings on July 23, reporting a 5% year-on-year growth in net revenues to $5.9 billion.
View ArticleTwitter “Blocks” Access to Russia’s Most Infamous Hackers
See all those languages up there? We translate Global Voices stories to make the world’s citizen media available to everyone.
View ArticleEnglishman Indicted for Stealing Thousands of US Government Employee Records
A man from Stradishall, England has been charged, for offenses that allowed him access to sensitive information of more than 100,000 federal government employees.The decision was taken on Thursday,...
View ArticleFacebook Security for Parents and Teens
Social authentication. A hacker will have a harder time hacking into your Facebook account if he or she must identify your friends via photos.
View ArticleMalware Risk in Europe Increased by Outdated Browser Plugins
Cybercriminals always look for the weakest link they can leverage to make as many victims as possible, and it looks like web browsers with out-of-date plugins are the norm in Europe.According to the...
View ArticleHackers stealing more sexual photos for extortion
The e-mail terrified the young mother. “What if I told you I had pics of you?” the writer asked.
View ArticleHacker McKinnon sets up as IT adviser
A SCOT who hacked into some of the world’s most secure computer networks is offering his services as an IT consultant.
View ArticleCybercriminals Abuse Amazon Cloud to Host Linux DDoS Trojans
Cloud services provided by Amazon and other companies are being abused by profit-driven cybercriminals to host DDoS bots, Kaspersky Lab reported on Friday.
View ArticleHow Safe Is Your Bitcoin Wallet From A Cyber-Attack?
Bitcoin is a type of digital currency established in 2009 as an inexpensive payment method than can be used to buy merchandise and make transactions online.
View ArticleNeverquest Banking Trojan Updated to Include More Than 30 Financial...
Whoever is behind the development of the Neverquest (Snifula) Trojan has been busy.
View ArticleI2P Networking Tool Patched Against De-Anonymization
Following the announcement from vulnerability broker Exodus Intelligence about flawed components in Tails operating system enabling de-anonymization of a client, developers of the I2P networking tool...
View ArticleHome Security Systems Can be Hacked
Dale Baker has an ADT home security system. He’d be at home when it would start chirping.
View ArticleLinux DDoS Bot Found in Amazon Cloud
Threat actors are actively exploiting a vulnerability in an older version of Elasticsearch software in order to add distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) malware in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)...
View ArticleUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln Student Sentenced for Hacking
A 23-year-old student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln that hacked into the systems of the educational institution and accessed student records, account information and passwords, has been...
View ArticleSEC to Facebook: yeah, we’re good, Homeland Security does software, and go...
It’s been a slow summer in Gov news, but at least the Library of Congress seems willing to let you unlock your cell phone. The SEC just “liked” (or at least ignored) Facebook’s IPO mess, and DHS is now...
View ArticleStolen Self Regional Healthcare Laptop Exposes Patients Details
A burglary to one of the Self Regional Healthcare facilities that resulted in the theft of a laptop computer put sensitive information about patients at risk.The incident occurred on May 25 and the...
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