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RUSSIA CARRIED OUT CYBERATTACKS ON BRITISH MEDIA, ENERGY, TELECOM SECTORS
Russia has strongly denied any election interference in the United States... READ MORE›
THE CHALLENGE OF AUTHENTICATING REAL HUMANS IN A DIGITAL WORLD
This increasing dependence on digital authentication may actually result in less security... READ MORE›
ROGUE TWITTER WORKER WHO DELETED TRUMP'S ACCOUNT COULD FACE HACKING CHARGES
How much legal risk does Twitter's former representative really face in light of this law?... READ MORE›
AS APPLE PATCHES IOS 11.1 WI-FI SECURITY VULNERABILITY FOR IPHONE, ANOTHER EMERGES
It seems Apple is facing constant challenges in ensuring iPhones' security... READ MORE›
BRITAIN BELIEVES NORTH KOREA WAS BEHIND 'WANNACRY' NHS CYBER ATTACK
Cyber security researchers quickly identified a possible link to North Korea... READ MORE›
GEORGIA ELECTION SERVER WIPED AFTER SUIT FILED OVER VULNERABILITIES, WITH GOP MAN IN CHARGE AMONG DEFENDANTS
The server's data were destroyed July 7 by technicians at the Center for Elections Systems at Kennesaw State University, which runs the state's election system... READ MORE›
PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR CALLED IN TO HELP AFTER 1000-PAGE PARLIAMENT HOUSE SECURITY MANUAL LOST
A private contractor that lost a 1000-page manual about security measures at Parliament House is still involved with the contract... READ MORE›
IRAN TO BLAME FOR CYBER-ATTACK ON MPS' EMAILS BRITISH INTELLIGENCE
The attackers sought to gain access to accounts protected by weak passwords... READ MORE›
TOP SECRET INFORMATION ABOUT FIGHTER JETS, NAVY SHIPS STOLEN AFTER DEFENCE CONTRACTOR HACKED
The compromise was extensive and extreme, Mr Clarke told the Australian Information Security Association national conference in audio obtained by a freelance journalist called Stilgherrian... READ MORE›
ALERT FOR SHOPPERS AFTER CYBER ATTACKERS HIT SUPERMARKET GIANT MUSGRAVE
Musgrave also said it has cyber breach response experts and they have installed advanced technical fixes to combat the attempted breach... READ MORE›
ONE IN FOUR FIRMS HAVE BEEN VICTIM OF CYBER ATTACK, SURVEY WARNS
The Magnet Networks national cyber security awareness survey has also claimed more than 171,000 businesses could be vulnerable to crippling ransomware attacks... READ MORE›
FOREIGN GOVERNMENT CODE REVIEWS 'PROBLEMATIC': WHITE HOUSE CYBER OFFICIAL
China in May adopted a new cyber security law that western companies have criticized for requiring overly strict data surveillance and storage requirements... READ MORE›
EQUIFAX FAILED TO PATCH SECURITY VULNERABILITY IN MARCH
As a result, the vulnerability remained in an Equifax web application much longer than it should have, Smith said... READ MORE›
GERMANY SEES NO SIGN OF CYBER ATTACK BEFORE SEPT. 24 ELECTION
French and U.S. officials also said Moscow sought to influence their elections... READ MORE›
EQUIFAX SUFFERED A HACK ALMOST FIVE MONTHS EARLIER THAN THE DATE IT DISCLOSED
The revelation of a March breach will complicate the company's efforts to explain a series of unusual stock sales by Equifax executives... READ MORE›
EQUIFAX DATA HACK IS SPREADING AROUND THE WORLD
In New York, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced that his office will probe the massive security breach, which he said affects some 8 million New Yorkers... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Computer Security
THE WORLD WIDE WEB'S INVENTOR WARNS IT'S IN PERIL ON 28TH ANNIVERSARY
Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, now wants to save it... READ MORE›
MEET THE EXPERT WHO STOPPED THE GLOBAL CYBERATTACK
Salim Neino, CEO of Kryptos Logic, said Hutchins took over the kill switch on Friday afternoon European time, before it could fully affect the United States... READ MORE›
WHY DOES RUSSIA OUTSOURCE ITS HACKING
The DOJ alleged that the two Russian intelligence agents paid hackers to break into Yahoo's systems to collect intelligence from account users and pad their pockets... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN ARRESTS POSE TANTALIZING CLUE IN ELECTION HACKING
A prominent Russian criminal defense lawyer on Friday confirmed that the authorities in Moscow were prosecuting at least one computer security expert for treason... READ MORE›
FACT CHECK: TRUMP, RUSSIA AND THE U.S. ELECTION
Such activity is not new to Moscowthe Russians have used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there... READ MORE›
FOUR CHARGED, INCLUDING 2 RUSSIAN INTEL OFFICERS, IN MASSIVE YAHOO HACKS
Yahoo, which is selling its core Internet business to Verizon, has paid a heavy price for the security breaches... READ MORE›
RANSOM REPORTEDLY DEMANDED IN CYBERATTACK ON ENGLAND'S HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM
Doctors were using pen and paper as the National Health Service struggled to get computers back online... READ MORE›
CYBER 'SWAT' TEAMS GIRD FOR ELECTION DAY TROUBLE
Doug Rapp, an adviser for cybersecurity and national security initiatives for the Indiana Secretary of Commerce, will be among those in the war room on Tuesday... READ MORE›
YOUNG RUSSIAN DENIES SHE AIDED ELECTION HACKERS
He described Shevchenko as extremely well known in the information security community ... READ MORE›
HACKING ATTACK HAS SECURITY EXPERTS SCRAMBLING TO CONTAIN FALLOUT
Some of the world's largest institutions and government agencies were affected, including the Russian Interior Ministry, FedEx in the United States and Britain's National Health Service... READ MORE›
CYBERATTACKS IMPACT COULD WORSEN IN SECOND WAVE OF RANSOMWARE
As expected, the attackers have released new variants of the malware... READ MORE›
DOZENS OF COUNTRIES BATTLE AFTER-EFFECTS OF 'UNPRECEDENTED' RANSOMWARE HACK
The attack appears to have been unintentionally stopped by a 22-year-old computer security worker in England who began studying it Friday afternoon... READ MORE›
CAMERON TO MAKE CASE FOR SYRIA MILITARY ACTION AS EU TROOPS COULD BE SENT TO FRANCE
There have been two further arrests in Germany in connection with the Paris attacks, police have said, writes Justin Huggler in Berlin... READ MORE›
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AND WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
It was first reported in England -- hackers gained access to the National Health Service computers, effectively shuttering the entire system... READ MORE›
WHAT WE KNOW AND DONT KNOW ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL CYBERATTACK
A? Cybersecurity experts identified the malicious software as a variant of ransomware known as WannaCry... READ MORE›
GLOBAL RANSOMWARE ATTACK AFFECTS AUSTRALIAN WORKERS
Petya cyber attack Ransomware virus hits computer servers across globe, Australian office affected... READ MORE›
NEW WAVE OF RANSOM THREATS SEEN IN UNPRECEDENTED GLOBAL ATTACK
Russia and Ukraine had a heavy concentration of infections, according to Dutch security company Avast Software BV... READ MORE›
EMWAZI 'FELT LIKE DEAD MAN WALKING'
UK security services have been criticised in recent days for not stopping Emwazi fleeing to Syria to join Islamic State... READ MORE›
UNDER PRESSURE, WESTERN TECH FIRMS BOW TO RUSSIAN DEMANDS TO SHARE CYBER SECRETS
Without the source code approval, Symantec can no longer get approval to sell some of its business-oriented security products in Russia... READ MORE›
'BIGGEST RANSOMWARE OUTBREAK IN HISTORY' HITS NEARLY 100 COUNTRIES
Britain's National Cyber Security Centre, part of the GCHQ electronic intelligence agency, said it was working with police and the health system to investigate the attack... READ MORE›
CYBERSECURITY EXPERTISE OF TRUMP PICK GIULIANI NOT WELL KNOWN IN INDUSTRY
I've never heard of it, said Mikko Hypponen, another computer security expert who is the chief research officer of Finnish cybersecurity firm F-Secure... READ MORE›
THE FALLOUT FROM A GLOBAL CYBERATTACK
In Germany, the hackers' ransom demands popped up over the weekend on the screens of ticket vending machines of Deutsche Bahn, the national railway... READ MORE›
U.S. CYBER BILL WOULD SHIFT POWER AWAY FROM SPY AGENCY
Striking the balance between U.S. national security and general cyber security is critical, but it's not easy, said Senator Schatz in a statement... READ MORE›
GLOBAL RANSOMWARE ATTACK 5 THINGS TO KNOW
He actually probably saved lives by accident, Kennedy said, referring to the security researcher who discovered the kill switch... READ MORE›
BRITISH BANKS KEEP CYBER ATTACKS UNDER WRAPS TO PROTECT IMAGE
In fact, banks are under almost constant attack, Shlomo Touboul, Chief Executive of Israeli-based cyber security firm Illusive Networks said... READ MORE›
AS ATTACKS GROW, EU MULLS BANKING STRESS TESTS FOR CYBER RISKS
The European Union is considering testing banks' defenses against cyber attacks, EU officials and sources said, as concerns grow about the industry's vulnerability to hacking... READ MORE›
U.S. GOVERNMENT PROBES MEDICAL DEVICES FOR POSSIBLE CYBER FLAWS
Coming out of the block, medical devices don't really have security built into them... READ MORE›
WHITE HOUSE LAUNCHES ATTACK ON DONALD TRUMP OVER HACKING IT SAYS VLADIMIR PUTIN AUTHORISED
Mr Earnest added Mr Trump obviously knew Russia was engaged in malicious cyber-activity that was helping him and hurting Hillary Clinton... READ MORE›
UKRAINE SCRAMBLES TO CONTAIN NEW CYBER THREAT AFTER NOTPETYA ATTACK
Family firm in ukraine says it was not responsible for cyber attack... READ MORE›
CHINA ELECTRONICS FIRM TO RECALL SOME U.S. PRODUCTS AFTER HACKING ATTACK
It said the biggest issue was users not changing default passwords, adding that, overall, its products were well protected from cyber security breaches... READ MORE›