The Canadian Government has fallen victim to an activist-related hacking attack, joining a growing list of world governments that have fallen victim to hack attacks this year alone. The ruling Conservative government has been accused […]
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The Federal Data Breach Keeps Getting Worse – The Chinese Now Know Detailed Info On All Security Clearance Holders
News came, when else, late on Friday that the Chinese attack on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) were even worse than previously thought. Not only was the personal information of every government employee stolen […]
German Parliament Will Have To Replace All Its Computers After Hack Attack
A deep Russian hack attack on the German parliament, which we reported last week, will likely require that all software and hardware in the German parliamentary network to be replaced. After more than four weeks, […]
North Korea Threatens U.S. With Cyber Attack In Response To Recent Revelations
Every country in the world is building cyber armies, even the most disconnected. Hermit kingdom North Korea, which has only one outside link to the internet, is even joining the party. On Tuesday it responded […]
New Security Research Shows Hackers Are Actively Infiltrating Hospital Medical Devices
A shocking new report was published on Monday showing just how compromised America’s healthcare technology has become. After recent incidents involving Chinese hackers stealing patient information, security firm TrapX decided to look a little closer, […]
U.S. Army Homepage Is Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army
Hackers loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime briefly defaced the homepage of the U.S. Army’s website on Monday. The official page of the U.S. Army displayed pop-up boxes urging the United States to stop […]
Russia Caught Hacking Deep Into German Government Computer Systems
A recent hack attack on the German government, also know as the Bundestag, has been directly traced back to Russian secret police, according to leaks revealed to a German newspaper. While officials within the German […]
Japan Reaches Deal With U.S. For Cyberwar Defense Protection
The mutual threat of China’s pervasive hacking, combined with military belligerence, has led the United States military to extend protection to Japan, helping the Asian state protest against attacks against military bases and infrastructure such […]
IRS Hacked, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Identities Potentially Stolen
It’s not just American businesses under attack from cyber-criminals, but government agencies too. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen admitted Tuesday that thieves managed to steal information on more than 100,000 taxpayers from the agency, though he […]
Chinese Hackers Can Track Subway Riders Through Their Phones
Just because there’s no signal in underground subway tunnels doesn’t mean hackers can’t track you as you ride the rails. New research shows that clever hackers can track the movements of millions of subway riders […]
Latest Hack Attack Exposes Sexual Secrets Of Millions Of Americans
Hackers always go after personal information but usually its to access your bank accounts and credit cards. In the latest data breach, which includes more than 3.5 million people, the data comes with lurid details […]
Yemeni Hack Group Releases Thousands Of Secret Saudi Documents
A supposed Yemeni hacking group announced that it has hacked Saudi Arabia’s Foreign, Interior and Defense ministries and released thousands of top secret documents. The dumped documents include names and addresses of Saudi spies as […]
FBI Charge Researcher With Hacking United Airlines Flight, Taking Control Of Plane Mid-Flight
The FBI has charged a security researcher with hacking into the entertainment system of a United Airlines plane mid-flight and causing the aircraft to fly “sideways”. The revelations are both a damning indictment of airline […]
Penn State Victim Of Sophisticated Chinese Cyber Attack
Penn State University is the latest U.S. institution to be attacked by Chinese government hackers as its school of engineering went offline Friday after falling victim to a malware attack. The school was alerted to […]
Russia And China, Fearing Arab Spring, Sign Massive Censorship Agreement
Russia and China have signed a pact promising on paper to play nicely and not hack each other. The move is a clear attempt to polarize the world against the two communist dictatorships yet in […]
China Fingered In Massive Cyber Attack On U.S. Websites
The United States will press China to comprehensively investigate reports that Chinese attackers, probably state sponsored, were behind a massive cyber attack against prominent U.S. websites. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said the U.S. is […]
Virus That Destroys Your Computer Highlights Trend Of Destruction
A new computer virus that tries to avoid detection by making the machine it infects unusable has been discovered this week. Dubbed ‘Rombertik’, it senses if you’re trying to detect it, triggering evasion techniques theat […]
Russia Caught Inflating Popularity Of Pro-Russian Propaganda
Russia’s increasingly belligerent actions are universally condemned, both at home and abroad. Its people suffer and starve while Putin and his elite cadre of oligarchs inflate their bank accounts. Turns out that’s not all they […]
Researchers Find Surgery Robot Can Be Hacked To Hack You
In our increasingly digital and increasingly connected world the opportunity for hackers to take advantage of this connectivity is growing exponentially. New research shows that surgical robot makers are just as good at security as […]
U.S. Readying Hacking Related Sanctions On China & Russia
The United States government is preparing the first round of sanctions against foreign entities or individuals involved in hacking, according to a senior Department of Justice official. The move will mark the first test of […]
To Avoid War Pentagon Publishes Cyberwar Rules Of Engagement
The Pentagon published an outline of its cyber-warfare strategy for the first time ever on Thursday. The document reveals the conditions under which it will hack enemy nations. At least officially. Secretary Ashton Carter, speaking […]
Army needs civilians to fight escalating cyberwar
The U.S. Army, in a move designed to attract talent cyber security professionals, will create a special civilian division according to a report released this week. To better fill their ranks, “the Army created the […]
Affleck’s Family Owned Slaves and 6 Other Embarrassing Things We Learned From The Sony Leaks
The hacking of Sony this year by supposed North Korean sympathizers has been well documented – or so we thought. Earlier this week Wikileaks published over 20,000 pages of previously unseen documents stolen in the […]