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Russian Linked With LinkedIn Hack Named
NewsSocial Media October 26, 2016
29-year-old man’s arrest linked to 2012 professional social network security breach that saw over 150,000,000 user’s details being stolen. A Russian man has been charged with hacking and stealing information from computers at LinkedIn and other San Francisco Bay Area companies The US attorney’s office in San Francisco has announced that... Read more
Consumers To Blame In DDoS Attack
News October 26, 2016
Blame is an ugly word, but sometimes the truth hurts. At least, that’s where the news and investigation into last week’s large-scale DDoS attack have been taking us. While the full blame for the attack rests squarely on the shoulders of the perpetrators, there’s another group who carries some... Read more
Is The DDoS Attack Just The Beginning?
News October 24, 2016
Last Friday, a DDOS attack set off a shockwave of disbelief when internet users couldn’t access some of their typical websites. Some major websites were affected, along with a few others who rely on the same infrastructure provider, Dyn. Dyn reported repeated DDoS attacks that came in one after... Read more
Arrest Made In 2012 LinkedIn Breach
NewsSocial Media October 20, 2016
Hacking and data breaches were once “needle in a haystack” crimes, with international efforts to track down and apprehend the culprits typically resulting in little to show for it. With better networking and technology to help with the legwork, law enforcement officials are having more and more success in... Read more
“Security Fatigue” Concerns Over Constant Hack Warnings
NewsPrivacy and Security October 7, 2016
Study warns that users are just plain old  tired of having to remember so many passwords. A new study from the North American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has discovered that a large proportion of people they interviewed were experiencing a heightened sense of security fatigue that... Read more
Yahoo Hack Proves Passwords Aren’t The Only Target
NewsPrivacy and Security September 28, 2016
When large-scale data breaches and hacking events first became headline news, thieves were after credit card information, debit card accounts, and other payment details. But the problem with that type of low-hanging fruit is it’s all too easily changed. Within moments of the first fraudulent transaction–if it even goes... Read more
A security expert has warned that a group of hackers is attempting to see if it’s possible to bring down the internet completely. According to Bruce Schneier writing in a blog post, hacker collectives, most likely to have been sanctioned by either China or Russia, is testing the defences... Read more
Just when everyone likes to point this finger at Russian hacker groups for some of the recent major-scale data breaches, the tables have turned. According to research by Leaked Source, Rambler.ru (kind of like the Russian equivalent of Yahoo) was breached and around 98 million users’ email and password... Read more
The names of almost 800,000 registered users of porn site Brazzers have been exposed in a data breach…Kind of. The exposed user data actually originated from a separate forum associated with the Brazzers website, but Brazzers users who never signed up to the forum may unfortunately also have had... Read more
With schools around the country heading back for another school year, a wave of Internet crimes is about to be uncovered. Thanks in large part to the ease of online applications for scholarships, grants, and financial aid, scammers have an easier than ever time of making off with a... Read more
Hackers Breach US State Election Boards
News August 30, 2016
In the Will Ferrell/Zach Galifianakis comedy “The Campaign,” the quintessential good guy loses the election. He bemoans the results by saying he doesn’t understand what happened since he was ahead in the polls. The POV switches to the stickers on the voting machines; they were made by the victorious... Read more
Stolen NSA Files Put Up for Auction By Hackers
News August 16, 2016
A hacker collective known as the Shadow Brokers are holding a Bitcoin auction to ransom off a collection of malware files stolen from the US National Security Agency. The hackers say they will give the malicious files to the highest bidder, whoever they may be. According to experts, the... Read more
China Launches Unhackable Quantum Satellite
News August 15, 2016
In a remote section of the Gobi Desert, China launched the world’s first quantum satellite early on Tuesday morning, and in doing so may have just made the future hacking of communication networks almost impossible. Chinese state media reported the official launch as technological breakthrough seeking to harness the... Read more
Hospital Ransomware Attacks On The Rise
News August 11, 2016
In the realm of data breaches and hacking events, there are a handful of victims who are easy targets, for one reason or another. Elder scams, for example, are quite common–and utterly reprehensible, committed by the lowest humans on the planet–due to the perception that senior citizens are both... Read more
Data breaches and hacking are on the shortlist of fears that plague many business executives, and with good reason. The Identity Theft Resource Center has been tracking data breaches since 2005, and almost every single year since then has seen a record number of breaches and hacking; these events... Read more
Mayhem wins Cyber-Attack Defense Competition
News August 5, 2016
A piece of computer software known as “Mayhem”, has won a competition in Las Vegas, that was seeking to find the best software that can defend against cyber-attacks at a completely autonomous level. The competition was the brainchild of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and was setup... Read more
Although really it never actually went anywhere because most people never fixed it because they didn’t know it was a problem… HTTPoxy; this time its war. Well, maybe not. But it does sound like one of the most unlikely sequels in history, and if it was a movie, it... Read more
Amazon Breached And Customer Data Exposed…Or Not?
News July 18, 2016
That’s the trouble with those pesky data breaches…are they true, or not? In the case of the recent alleged attack on Amazon’s servers, we’re still not sure. But that doesn’t stop the news from circulating, or the consumer panic from setting in. A hacker going by the Twitter handle... Read more