The identities of more than 15,000 South Africans who reported crimes or provided tip-offs to the police have been exposed following an attack on a SAPS (South African Police Service) website.…
Techies at satirical news outfit The Onion have posted an informative explanation about how pro-Assad hacktivists from the Syrian Electronic Army hijacked their official Twitter account on Monday.…
Hackers target LivingSocial, stealing the personal data of more than 50 million people in an enormous security breach.
A group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army is claiming that it successfully hacked the official Twitter account of the Associated Press and is responsible for a tweet that briefly wiped billions off the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday.…
Infosec 2013 Over 80 per cent of small businesses in the UK suffered a computer security breach last year, according to new government research. And the proportion of large firms that reported attacks has reached a whopping 93 per cent.…
Pair allegedly sold point-of-sale terminals preloaded with remote desktop software to load value on Subway gift cards.
The US government’s online catalog of cyber-vulnerabilities has been taken offline – ironically, due to a software vulnerability.…
With its new informational series, the Web giant aims to answer questions about why a site was hacked, what malware may have been used, and how to wipe the site clean of bugs.
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Company behind application used by about 50 million people says some user data was accessed, and it requires all users to reset passwords.
Undisclosed number of computers are found with malware, but the company says no customer data has been compromised.