Homeland Security Is Investigating the Leslie Jones Website Hack
The federal government is now looking into this week’s hack of comedian Leslie Jones’s personal website, in which hackers posted the Ghostbusters star’s personal information and nude photos stolen from...
View ArticleYahoo’s Ominous Hack
Happy Friday. If you have a Yahoo yhoo account, it’s time to change your password. The company announced yesterday it had a massive cyber attack back in 2014. Because this wasn’t known at the time the...
View ArticleLenovo, Intel, and PayPal Team On Fingerprinting Tech For Online Payments
Paying for what you buy online through your personal computer may one day involve fingerprints instead of passwords. Lenovo, Intel intc , PayPal pypl , and electronics-company Synaptics said Friday...
View ArticleHere’s How Much Businesses Worldwide Will Spend on Cybersecurity by 2020
There's nothing like the fear of being hacked to make businesses willing to spend cash on cybersecurity tools and services. In 2020, these organizations are expected to spend $101.6 billion on...
View ArticlePublishing Hacked Private Emails Can Be a Slippery Slope
Regular dumps of classified documents and other internal communications have become a fixture of modern life, thanks in part to stateless--and frequently lawless--entities like WikiLeaks. But is...
View ArticleTop U.S. Intelligence Chief Says Non-State Actors Behind Massive Web Hack
Last Friday's enormous cyber attack that brought down popular websites and online services like Amazon amzn and Netflix nflx was likely caused by a non-state actor, otherwise known as hackers without...
View ArticleU.S. to Secure Guilty Plea in Case Tied to J.P. Morgan Hack Probe
U.S. prosecutors are expected to obtain their second guilty plea in a case related to what they say was an illegal bitcoin exchange owned by an Israeli behind a series of hacking attacks on...
View ArticleFlorida Man Pleads Guilty in Case Linked to J.P. Morgan Hacking Probe
A Florida man pleaded guilty on Thursday to obstructing a regulatory examination of a credit union linked to an illegal bitcoin exchange owned by an Israeli accused of being behind hacking attacks on...
View ArticleHackers Threaten to Release 30GB of Stolen Data From San Francisco’s...
Hackers infected a computer network operated by San Francisco’s public railway system with malicious software over Thanksgiving weekend. After two days of interrupted ticketing service and free rides...
View ArticleSan Francisco Railway ‘Never Considered Paying the Ransom’ To Hackers
The agency that operates San Francisco’s municipal railway has all but recovered from a crippling ransomware attack that struck its computer network over Thanksgiving weekend, the agency said. Hackers...
View ArticleGoogle Android Fraudsters Breach More Than 1 Million Accounts
Hackers have in a matter of months compromised more than 1 million Google accounts as part of a lucrative fraudulent advertising scheme involving malicious app downloads, according to a new report by...
View ArticleUnplug Your Easily Hijacked Netgear Routers Pronto
Netgear has yet to fix a critical vulnerability uncovered by a hacker in several of its home Wi-Fi router models. A security researcher using the online alias “Acew0rm” discovered the flaw, which...
View ArticleRussian Email Hack Sounds Ridiculous But Is Totally Believable
Whenever a high-level hacking incident takes place, reading about it often triggers images from a James Bond or Jason Bourne movie, with secret servers, hidden code, and shadowy characters in hoodies....
View ArticleVerizon Demands a Better Deal After Yahoo’s Latest Historic Hack
Yahoo yhoo came under renewed scrutiny by federal investigators and lawmakers on Thursday after disclosing the largest known data breach in history, prompting Verizon Communications vz to demand better...
View ArticleLinkedIn’s Lynda.com Resets 55,000 Passwords After Data Breach
Lynda.com, the online learning site owned by Microsoft’s msft LinkedIn lnkd , reset 55,000 customer account passwords after disclosing a data breach this weekend. Hackers accessed a database containing...
View ArticleWhat the Washington Post’s Hacked Electrical Grid Report Got Wrong
A Washington Post report on Friday said that Russian hackers had breached the nation’s power grid via a utility in Vermont, citing unnamed U.S. officials. Almost immediately, digital security experts...
View ArticleThis Vicious New Malware Freezes Apple Computers
Apple computer users should be extra diligent when surfing the web. For the past few weeks, people have been tricked into visiting a phony website embedded with malware that can freeze Apple computers,...
View ArticleU.S. Intel Report: Putin Directed Cyber Campaign to Help Trump
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an effort to help Republican Donald Trump’s electoral chances by discrediting Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign, U.S. intelligence...
View ArticleU.S. Response to Russia Hacking ‘Not the End’
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Tuesday that the United States’ response so far to Russia orchestrating hacks during the 2016 presidential campaign was just the start. “Some responses have...
View ArticleHere’s What Happened To One Company That Refused To Pay Off Hackers
Hackers continue to use ransomware to attack and extort businesses and other organizations, highlighting the dangers of failing to put up adequate cyber defenses. E-Sports Entertainment Association, a...
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