-
+20 +1
You’ve got pwned: AOL reports e-mail breach as bigger than thought
Last week, AOL confirmed that an unknown number of AOL Mail accounts have been hacked. Today, the company urged all its customers to change passwords and security questions, as it determined that information for at least two percent of all its accounts had been compromised. That's an impact of half a million users.
-
+26 +1
It’s Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment
In a study spanning two years, Erven and his team found drug infusion pumps–for delivering morphine drips, chemotherapy and antibiotics–that can be remotely manipulated to change the dosage doled out to patients; Bluetooth-enabled defibrillators that can be manipulated to deliver random shocks to a patient’s heart or prevent a medically needed shock from occurring; X-rays that can be accessed by outsiders lurking on a hospital’s network
-
+18 +1
AOL Mail Hacked, Accounts Sending Spam
If you get a suspicious email from an AOL user, it's probably best to delete it. The service has apparently been compromised and some accounts are sending out spammy messages. But rather than compromising actual accounts, it appears the scammers are just spoofing them. As AOL explained in a help page, "spoofing is when a spammer sends out emails using your email address in the From: field. The idea is to make it seem like the message is from you – in order to trick people into opening it."
-
+17 +1
Heartbleed May Be Mostly Fixed, but It's Still Causing Trouble
The vulnerability has cropped up on Healthcare.gov and has been used to attack corporate VPNs. Stay wary.
-
+5 +1
The Heartbleed Bug Will Lurk in the Internet of Things for Decades
The internet is still reeling from the Heartbleed bug discovered this week, which ripped a hole in the popular OpenSSL encryption library that left web servers bleeding out buckets of data—and not just any data, the kind of data people had specifically taken pains to protect: private information, passwords, cryptographic keys, security certificates, and so on.
-
+35 +1
Hacker Andrew 'Weev' Auernheimer's conviction thrown out
Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, frequently cited as proof of American hacker laws run amok, will be freed from prison early.
-
+21 +1
Hackers Are Flooding Pinterest With Weight Loss Ads And Butts
Pinterest users: Beware. A hack is spreading weight loss ads and butt pics across the social network. If you noticed a suspicious pin on a friend's account, don't click it. Multiple Pinterest accounts have been hacked and filled with spam, according to TechCrunch reporter Catherine Shu.
-
+23 +1
Microsoft Word Is Under A Hack Attack: Do Not Open Documents Named '.RTF'
Microsoft Corp. on Monday issued an emergency security warning saying that hackers have found a way to booby-trap certain common Word files with the .rtf extension. Microsoft says it's aware of attacks going on now, but there's no fix yet to stop the hackers. It's working on a way to stop the bug.
-
+26 +1
This drone can steal what's on your phone
The next threat to your privacy could be hovering over head while you walk down the street. Hackers have developed a drone that can steal the contents of your smartphone - from your location data to your Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) password - and they've been testing it out in the skies of London. The research will be presented next week at the Black Hat Asia cybersecurity conference in Singapore.
-
+14 +1
EA investigating hack using its website to steal Apple IDs
Hackers used EA's web site to host a fake Apple login screen designed to steal visitors' credit card information and Apple IDs, a security firm reported today. The fake page appeared to exist on a subdomain of EA.com and is said to have looked almost exactly like Apple's current login screen. While there's no reason you would currently need or be able to log into an Apple account through EA's website, the domain certainly provides a veneer of respectability that could help to deceive visitors.
-
+16 +1
'What does ISP mean?' - how government officials are flunking security challenges
Policy on national security and protection is in the hands of people without critical technological understanding, warns cybersecurity expert.
-
+12 +1
MtGox faced 150,000 attacks per second: report
Bitcoin exchange MtGox faced massive hacker offensives last month, coming under some 150,000 DDoS attacks per second for several days ahead of its spectacular failure, a report said Sunday. The Tokyo-based exchange, which filed for bankruptcy protection in February and admitted that it has lost half a billion dollars in the digital currency, has come under serious cyber-attacks in particular since around February 7, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported.
-
+15 +1
Meetup.com Knocked Offline After Refusing to Pay $300 Hacker Ransom
Those of you attempting to make some new friends via Meetup.com might end up hanging out alone for the time being. The social networking site was battling a massive cyberattack over the weekend and on Monday against hackers who are demanding $300 to call off the assault, which has kept the site offline for much of the past four days. As of Monday afternoon, Meetup.com could not be accessed.
-
+4 +1
Russian news site RT.com hacked to replace 'Russian' with 'Nazi'
Amidst controversy surrounding Russia's decision to move troops into Ukraine, popular Russian news site RT.com has been hacked.
-
+17 +1
PayPal washes its hands of bitcoin scam
Will Phillips is £5,300 out of pocket after falling victim to a very 21st-century financial scam involving hacked PayPal accounts and the digital currency bitcoin. For the uninitiated, bitcoin is a "virtual currency" that, depending on who you believe, is going to change the world by turning e-commerce on its head, or end very messily like a modern-day version of the "tulip mania" that gripped the Netherlands in the 17th century.
-
+20 +1
5 things to know about the Clinton documents
The National Archives has released thousands of documents Friday from Bill Clinton's presidency. Here's what you need to know.
-
+14 +1
Why Do Companies Keep Getting Hacked?
Two weeks ago, a respected crowdfunding site, Kickstarter, was hacked. Snapchat was hacked the week before that. Skype's social media accounts were targeted the week before that. "These days, criminal hacking is a business," Patrick Thomas, a security consultant at Neohapsis, tells Fast Company. "Everything that is done has a chain linked to real dollars. And hackers are looking for the shortest chain."
-
+11 +1
UMD Hacked, Over 300,000 Records Stolen
The University of Maryland (UMD) said it was the victim of a recent cyberattack, according to their statement released Wednesday. In the letter, UMD President Wallace D. Loh said he was informed of the breach yesterday evening by Brian Voss, the Vice President of Information Technology at the university.
-
-1 +1
Syrian Electronic Army hacks into Forbes.com
The Syrian Electronic Army, the cyber wing of Bashar al-Assad's army, attacked Forbes.com Friday, compromising user data, defacing webpages and posting a fake story to the website.
-
+16 +1
Hacked X-Rays Could Slip Guns Past Airport Security
Could a threat-simulation feature found in airport x-ray machines around the country be subverted to mask weapons or other contraband hidden in a traveler’s carry-on? The answer is yes, according to two security researchers with a history of discovering flaws in critical systems, who purchased their own x-ray control machine online and spent months analyzing its inner workings.
Submit a link
Start a discussion