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The Federal Website That Protects Us From Malware Has Been Hacked
The situation is not only ironic, it's more evidence that the hackers are winning, writes Dan Rowin…
Julie Bort
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This Chef Taught Herself How To Catch Hackers Then Got A Great Job As A Computer Security Guru
In one big jump, Ashley Hamilton changed careers from a line cook at a popular San Francisco eatery…
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The 'Biggest Cyberattack In History' Was Nothing Compared To A Targeted Attack
Earlier this year, Brian Krebs coverage showed how a D/DOS acted as a smoke screen for a bank heist…
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Hackers Controlled The New York Times By Hacking A Website In Australia
Apparently, the group gained control of the Times' domain name registrar, Melbourne IT. A domain na…
Julie Bort
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Hackers Have Figured Out How To Take Over Your Toilet
Drew Breunig, strategy director of an advertising technology company called PlaceIQ, shared a list …
Dylan Love
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Twitter: 250,000 Users Were Hacked
This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident. The at…
Owen Thomas
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2 Million More Passwords For Facebook, Google, Twitter, Other Sites Were Stolen And Posted To The 'Net
This stash of 2 million passwords follows a massive hack on Adobe revealed in October in which a ja…
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Hackers Have Figured Out How To Take Over Your Toilet
Drew Breunig, strategy director of an advertising technology company called PlaceIQ, shared a list …
Dylan Love
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This Man Has Hacked A Thousand Banks And Never Been Arrested
To rob a bank, he disguises himself as a workman, he told Business Insider. Bank employees think he…
Julie Bort
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Report reveals 7 in 10 cyber-security professionals are losing against hackers, organisations report a 10% revenue loss
Nearly 82 per cent of them estimated their organisation lost up to 10 per cent of revenue from s…
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'Human Weakness' Helped Chinese Hackers Steal Secrets From US Companies
The APT1 hackers were able to crack into American companies' computer networks and systems by targe…
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Mercenary Hackers Appear To Be Behind An Insane Global Espionage Campaign
The hack targeted cell phones (Nokia, Windows, iPhone), enterprise networks, deleted files and even…
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Your Password Isn't Good Enough - Here's How To Fix It
Just because your password replaces an "E" with a "3" and ends in an exclamation point doesn't make…
Dylan Love
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Your Skype Account Can Be Easily Hijacked, Says A Guy Who Was Hacked Six Times In One Day
We've heard back from Skype PR who denies that its easy for hackers to grab Skype accounts this eas…
Julie Bort
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Facebook Pays $20K Bounty To Researcher Who Found A Major Security Flaw In Facebook Before Hackers Did
"This should – obviously – have been impossible, but due to a weakness in Facebook’s tangled nest o…
Kevin McLaughlin
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Here's A Great Idea For Creating Passwords That Are Easy To Remember But Hard To Hack
For example, the phrase could be something like "I graduated from Notre Dame University on June 1st…
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Chinese Hackers Have Been Attacking The New York Times For Months
The hackers were tricky about hiding their tracks. They used a technique called "spearphishing" whe…
Julie Bort
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A New Army Of Chinese Hackers Is Stealing Secrets From U.S. Companies, Researchers Say
The researchers told Business Insider that they don't know what the hackers are doing with stolen I…
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What Happens At 'Black Hat,' The World's Biggest Conference For Hackers In Las Vegas
"In the last 12 months, companies as diverse as Symantec, the security juggernaut, and LinkedIn, th…
Megan Rose Dickey
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Internet Mercenary Gives A Peek Into His Shadowy World
What often goes without mentioning, though, especially when infrastructure is so often the target, …