Hackers get into National Republican Congressional Committee’s email
“Thousands of emails were stolen” from four senior aides to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the campaign arm for
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Why hacking leads to less security respect
Hacking One of the biggest trends, emphasized especially by motivational videos and social media, has been hacking, which is where
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Cylance researchers discover powerful new nation-state APT
When a Belgian locksmith attacked the Pakistani Air Force, researchers at Cylance sat up and took notice. The locksmith probably
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The OPM hack explained: Bad security practices meet China’s Captain America
In April of 2015, IT staffers within the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the agency that manages the
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Thousands of critical energy and water systems exposed online for anyone to exploit
While you likely don’t stop to think about water or energy industries when you grab a drink of water or
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Flaws in brain stimulation tech could let hackers erase or hold memories for ransom
Oh goody! Erasing memories or rewriting them and then implanting false ones are not just the stuff of sci-fi or
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FBI: Call of Duty gamers helped steal $3.3 million in cryptocurrency
Call of Duty — it’s all fun and games until it’s not — and a gamer gets threatened with being swatted
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Burned malware returns, says Cylance report: Is Hacking Team responsible?
Burning malware is like Hercules fighting the nine-headed Hydra. For every head he cuts off, two more grow back in
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3 ways politicians could prevent voting machines from being hacked (if they wanted to)
When Americans head to the polls in a few weeks for the 2018 midterm elections, voters in 36 states will
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35 million voter records for sale on hacking forum
Approaching the November midterm elections, researchers discovered 35 million U.S. voter records from 19 states being sold on a hacking
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Pentagon’s new weapon systems are easy to hack, GAO report finds
Well, this is terrifying and something you don’t ever want to hear, but according to a report by the U.S.
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Gwinnett Medical Center investigating possible data breach
After being contacted by Salted Hash about a possible data breach, Gwinnett Medical Center(GMC), a not-for-profit network of healthcare providers
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Cybercriminals are using blockchain to improve security. Should you?
At its height, the AlphaBay dark web market had 40,000 vendors, more than 400,000 users, and was facilitating more than
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Facebook security and privacy issues revealed
Last week, as many as 90 million Facebook users were forced to re-login to their accounts after the social media
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Mobile spyware Pegasus found in the US and 44 other countries
In a new report, Citizen Lab researchers warned that sophisticated mobile spyware, dubbed Pegasus — made and sold by the
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