Massive DDoS attacks, targeting DNS provider Dyn, have triggered widespread internet disruptions. Security intelligence firm Flashpoint says the attacks have been perpetrated at least in part via a botnet of Mirai-infected internet of things devices.
Authorities say Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin stole credentials from a LinkedIn employee and used them to breach the social networking firm in 2012, in which well over 100 million members' passwords were exposed.
Widespread website outages beginning early Oct. 21 are suspected to have been caused by a massive distributed denial-of-service attack against DNS service provider Dyn. Numerous sites, including Amazon and Twitter, were sporadically unavailable.
Some 3.2 million Indian debit cards may have been compromised, according to the National Payments Council of India. While investigations are ongoing and several banks have reissued at-risk cards, the source of the card exposure has not been officially confirmed.
Former NSA contractor Harold T. Martin III., who is accused of pilfering mass quantities of highly classified information, will remain in jail until his trial. Martin engaged in "a course of felonious conduct that is breathtaking in its longevity and scale," prosecutors say.
Yahoo is appealing to the U.S. director of national intelligence to declassify an order that allegedly required the company to install secret spying software that scanned incoming email accounts for specific content.
Yahoo, now negotiating its sale to Verizon, has posted an increase in quarterly profits and page views, bolstering its case that its massive data breach didn't irrevocably damage its value. But with ad revenues in decline, time is running out.
In the wake of cyberattacks, federal regulators are proposing tough new standards designed to bolster cybersecurity at the nation's largest banking institutions.
U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump's business organization downplayed a finding from a UK-based researcher that the organization uses, in some cases, decade-old email software, posing significant cybersecurity risks.
While hitting back may be satisfying and worthwhile to some, whether and how to do it is hardly a simple matter. Many questions need to be addressed, perhaps answered before going ahead.
An online store touting Republican Party paraphernalia was one of thousands hit by sneaky JavaScript that exported payment card details to Russia. The site is fixed, but the hack underscores ongoing challenges in securing e-commerce platforms.
As U.S. ATM operators face MasterCard's Oct. 21 EMV liability shift deadline, a surge in explosive attacks against European ATMs is a reminder that anti-fraud features won't block all money machine crime.
A new audit that uncovered numerous problems with the U.S. Secret Service's IT management is "alarming," says House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz, a victim of a Secret Service insider breach.
In January, banks and other financial services companies based in New York may have to comply with tough new cybersecurity requirements. But some critics contend that the state's regulatory proposal is far too prescriptive, making it challenging for banking institutions, especially smaller ones, to comply.
IoT devices running the authentication protocol OpenSSH are being compromised and used as proxies in attacks that aim to take over accounts at popular web services, according to new research from Akamai.
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