Maryland hospital: Ransomware success wasn’t IT department’s fault
MedStar's Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, one of 10 affected by a ransomware attack taking out MedStar's servers.MedStar MedStar, the health network of 10 Maryland hospitals struck by a...
View ArticleReport: “Deeply divided” White House won’t support anti-encryption legislation
President Barack Obama.White House Apple's encryption battle FBI offers crypto assistance to local cops: “We are in this together” Father begs Apple CEO to help unlock his dead 13-year-old son’s iPhone...
View ArticleSolution Providers See Customers Shifting Spending Toward Security Services
Security isn't just a technology problem, and customers are now shifting their buying strategies to shell out big bucks for security services, a panel of solution providers and security experts said...
View ArticleNation-wide radio station hack airs hours of vulgar “furry sex” ramblings
TJJSvdMSome Tuesday morning listeners of KIFT, a Top 40 radio station located in Breckenridge, Colorado, were treated to a radically different programming menu than they were used to.Instead of the...
View ArticleJavaScript founder Brendan Eich's company could face legal action
Brave Software, a new venture by JavaScript founder Brendan Eich, has been put on notice that its plan to block ads in its browser and replace them could place the company in legal hot water.But Brave...
View ArticleNeutered random number generator let man rig million dollar lotteries
Prosecutors say they have unearthed forensic evidence that shows how a former computer security official for a state lottery association let him rig drawings worth millions of dollars across five...
View ArticleOculus, why do you need to record our every move? Al Franken asks
US Senator wants details on data harvesting by VR spex A US Senator wants to know what the Facebook-owned Oculus is planning to do with all the user data it collects with its Rift virtual reality (VR)...
View ArticleHeartbleed Remains a Risk 2 Years After It Was Reported
A vulnerability publicly disclosed in the open-source OpenSSL project two years ago continues to have an impact today. On April 7, 2014, CVE-2014-0160, better known as Heartbleed, was publicly...
View ArticleOK, panic—newly evolved ransomware is bad news for everyone
Aurich Lawson There's something inherently world-changing about the latest round of crypto-ransomware that has been hitting a wide range of organizations over the past few months. While most of the...
View ArticleAdobe patches Flash ransomware flaw that targets Windows 10 users
Adobe has rushed out a Flash update to plug a security hole spotted by infosec researchers, who warned that Windows 10 users of the software may have been exposed to the flaw for more than a...
View ArticleCosta Rica launches investigation after reports hackers ‘rigged’ 2014 election
Campaign wasn't full of badness like the others, claims hacker Costa Rica is to investigate whether hackers interfered with its 2014 elections. The investigation comes days after jailed hacker Andres...
View ArticleReport: FBI iPhone Unlocking Requests Date Back to 2008
The government, meanwhile, said its iPhone cracking technique applies only to a "narrow slice" of devices. The stand-off between Apple and the FBI started long before the San Bernardino attack.It...
View ArticleRansomware Attacks Prompt Emergency Flash Fix
The company said it was aware that some users have already been affected by ransomware that exploits the flaw. Adobe issued an emergency update to its Flash software on Thursday to correct a security...
View ArticleAuthentic8 Silo
ByNeil J. Rubenking When government entities need to keep information really, really secure, they keep it on computers that have no connection to the Internet.This air gap technique can be extremely...
View ArticleKinder, gentler hacks: A bevy of low-stakes early computer breaches
Stephen Coty, chief security evangelist at Alert Logic, recalls his own youthful exploits in the late '80s: Creating a boot sector virus that would cause an infected computer to put his name up on...
View ArticleResearchers help shut down spam botnet that enslaved 4,000 Linux machines
Spam.Sean MacEntee A botnet that enslaved about 4,000 Linux computers and caused them to blast the Internet with spam for more than a year has finally been shut down. Known as Mumblehard, the botnet...
View ArticleChariot for Women, an Uber-like service for females, set to launch this month
Chariot for Women A new Boston-area startup hopes to be a new on-demand ride service that will only offer rides to women, and children of any gender under 13. Chariot for Women, which was founded by a...
View ArticleTwo-Factor Authentication: Who Has It and How to Set It Up
Everyone is concerned about online safety these days. Keep your services secure with two-factor authentication. Several years ago, the Heartbleed exploit had us all scared, given that one itty bitty...
View ArticleAnonymised search engine page found on ‘kid-friendly’ search site
Beta-testing oddness was never intended to be kept – dev When it comes to seeking a magic bullet that will protect children from the evils of the internet, the first casualty is all too often common...
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