Tag: Cybersecurity

On Thursday, at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, IOActive Inc. outlined the vulnerabilities of many popular investment apps.

Russian interference in the run-up to U.S. midterm elections has dramatically decreased since President Donald Trump took office, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on governments worldwide on Wednesday to join forces to defend against cyber threats that he said could even bring down military and civilian aircraft.

The Department of Homeland Security and FBI issued a report on Thursday warning that North Korea continues its aggressive campaign of cyberattacks, including malware directed at computer systems in the United States, despite the diplomatic opening that culminated in Tuesday’s historic summit between President Donald Trump and dictator Kim Jong-un.

Experts at the Department of Homeland Security have indicated it is only a “matter of time” before hackers manage to interfere with a commercial airliner, leading to a potentially “catastrophic disaster,” according to a report from CBS News on Tuesday.

Intelligence analysts have discovered a new strand of North Korean malware that could be used in a cyber attack against the United States.

The Boeing corporation admitted on Wednesday that a “small number of systems” were affected by a “limited intrusion of malware,” but denounced what it called “overstated and inaccurate” reports that the malware attack was much larger.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) charged one Iranian entity and nine Iranians on Friday in a hacking scheme to steal intellectual property and information from at least 144 United States-based universities, various companies, and government agencies for private financial gain.

Intel has confirmed that they did not alert security officials about the “Meltdown” and “Spectre” CPU bugs until the security vulnerabilities were made public.

A new report from Cambridge University warns that rogue states, criminal gangs, and terrorist organizations could use artificial intelligence technology to wreak untold havoc in the very near future.

The heads of six major intelligence organizations including the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA have warned Americans not to use Huawei and ZTE phones

The annual World Economic Forum meeting – widely referred to as simply “Davos” after its traditional venue in Davos-Kosters, Switzerland – is scheduled to begin on January 23. A week ahead of the meeting, the WEF has released its Global Risks Report 2018, warning that the chance of a major war breaking out is increasing.

Uber reportedly paid a 20-year-old Florida man $100,000 via a bug reporting reward system to keep the data breach of 57 million users information a secret.

Three senior security managers at Uber have left the company following the revelation the company covered-up a data breach.

Apple is rushing to patch a major operating system vulnerability that left Mac computers open to hacking. Here’s how readers can fix it now.

Federal prosecutors have slapped an Iranian national with criminal charges for hacking HBO and prematurely releasing several Game of Thrones scripts and episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, in addition to private executive emails.

A new report has indicated that officials at the Department of Justice are preparing to announce several cases against Iranian suspects which include charges that said individuals hacked HBO, in a move that could motivate Congress to impose new sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran.

An Israeli defense expert has told a US news outlet the position of both US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran was “not shared by their professional advisers and intelligence communities.”

Facebook’s chief of security, Alex Stamos, was heard stating that the company’s own network was run “like a college campus” in a leaked recording.

As many as 37,000 Google Chrome users may have fallen victim to a fake Adblock Plus extension that appeared in the Google Store after slipping past Google’s extension verification process.

NBC News reports: A private cybersecurity firm has identified what it says is a hacking group sponsored by the Iranian government that has targeted organizations in the U.S., the Middle East and Asia.

A group of hackers suspected of working in Iran for its government is targeting the aviation and petrochemical industries in Saudi Arabia, the US and South Korea, a cybersecurity firm warned Wednesday.

Equifax reportedly fell victim to another cyber attack before the hack that exposed the personal info of 143 million people, according to a report from Bloomberg.

An online chatbot which was originally created to help users overturn parking tickets could be used by those affected by the Equifax data breach to help sue the company for up to $25,000.

Consumer credit reporting agency Equifax was recently subject to a large scale cyberattack which may affect the 143 million consumers the company holds information on.

North Korea flying missiles over Japan and detonating a potential 100-kiloton hydrogen bomb just turbo-charged what was already the beginning of a Southern California “Star Wars” defense boom.

A North Carolina-based private security firm left the personal info of U.S. citizens with Top Secret security clearance vulnerable to leaking by failing to secure an Amazon cloud server with a password.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released an advisory warning parents regarding security concerns about “smart” toys.

A new report states that 65% of major US banks have failed web security testing designed to determine whether or not they are vulnerable to a cyber attack.

As businesses become more reliant on computer technology, insurance companies have begun offering “cyberattack insurance” in an attempt to provide protection from hackers.

PARIS (AP) — A new and highly virulent outbreak of malicious data-scrambling software appears to be causing mass disruption across Europe, hitting Ukraine especially hard.

On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily, Prof. John Banzhaf of the George Washington University School of Law, who provided early and consistent warnings that the American election system is vulnerable to hacker attack, discussed the disturbing admission by the Department of Homeland Security that 21 states were targeted by hackers during the 2016 election.

A data analytics contractor employed by the Republican National Committee (RNC) left databases containing information on nearly 200 million potential voters exposed to the internet without security, allowing anyone who knew where to look to download it without a password.

Marissa Mayer, the controversial former Yahoo CEO who has now left the company following Verizon’s purchase, expressed her excitement to use Gmail again this week.

Georgia Representative Tom Graves proposes that victims of cyber attacks should be allowed to “hack back” in defense.