NSA, CIA and other security agencies prepare to defend against cyber attacks on election day
The long and winding road towards the 2016 U.S. Presidential election is poised to come to a merciful end this week. In turn, it won’t be …
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India is buying technology that can decrypt any iPhone
Apple’s iPhones and iPads that run iOS 8 or later have sophisticated encryption systems in place, and law enforcement agencies aren’t too happy about that. …
Leaked list reveals victims of NSA hacking around the world
Spy agencies like the NSA hack various targets on a regular basis, and they’ve probably been doing it ever since the world got online. However, …
Meet the company whose webcams shut down the Internet last Friday
Last Friday, hackers successfully managed to unleash an absolutely massive DDoS attack that swiftly knocked a number of popular websites offline, including Twitter, Spotify and …
Yesterday’s massive Internet outage was caused by hijacked DVRs, webcams and more
Hackers yesterday attacked Dyn, a major DNS service, with an absolutely massive DDoS attack that swiftly took a number of popular services, including Twitter, PayPal …
NSA contractor to be charged with espionage after making off with 50 TB of data
Late on Thursday, federal prosecutors signaled their intention to charge former NSA contractor Harold T. Martin with violating The Espionage Act after authorities discovered that …
Interview: John McAfee wants to protect you from the next big cyber threat
Computer security legend John McAfee’s social accounts have been racking up the retweets, likes and shares in recent days after he posted an image of …
Former NSA hacker demos how Mac malware can spy on your webcam
Former NSA hacker and NASA employee Patrick Wardle has discovered that it’s possible for Mac malware to piggyback off of an active Skype or FaceTime …
To spy on users, Yahoo modified tools that were supposed to protect them
Many tech companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter said they had not helped governmental agencies spy on their users like Yahoo did. Some said …
How to delete your Yahoo account
Two massive security scandals have hit Yahoo in a matter of days. First, the company acknowledged that hackers stole usernames and passwords for at least …
NSA contractor arrested after stealing classified computer code
The NSA was thrust into the limelight once again today following reports that yet another agency contractor was found to have illegally absconded with classified …
Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook don’t spy on you like Yahoo
It’s not like Yahoo needed a second major privacy scandal on top of the massive data breach it suffered back in 2014, and which it …
Cracking iOS 10 security will net you $1.5 million
The iPhone is one of the most secure devices you can purchase these days, but Apple’s security is far from being hack-proof. iOS 10 has …
This is why Yahoo did not reset your password after the massive data breach
Yahoo last week confirmed what many already feared, that unknown hackers have been able to steal account data belonging to hundreds of millions of users. …
Apple logs every iPhone user’s text message contacts, new leak claims
Apple likes to make boasts about how secure its Messages app is, but new revelations from The Intercept detail how Apple keeps a log of …
Apple says weak iOS 10 iTunes backup encryption will be fixed
iPhone backups are easier to crack if the device is running Apple’s iOS 10. Hackers discovered the issues, saying that Apple weakened backup security with …
NSA hacking tools were likely stolen after an operative accidentally left them on a computer
Though the NSA would prefer to fly underneath the radar, the controversial intelligence agency just can’t seem to escape the spotlight in recent months. A …
Massive data breach hit 500 million users, Yahoo confirms
Yahoo has confirmed that a data breach from 2014 hit 500 million users, allowing hackers access to sensitive information, including poorly encrypted passwords. A press release …
Yahoo to confirm hackers stole passwords for 200M accounts all the way back in 2012
Yahoo will confirm later this week that hackers did breach its systems in 2012, stealing personal data for about 200 million accounts, including easily decrypted …
FBI director assumes someone is spying on our webcams all the time21
FBI Director James Comey, a strong opponent of Apple’s way of encrypting software and hardware, just told us again that covering up that computer webcam …
And this is why you don’t scam a security professional on Reddit
Trying to scam someone on the internet is always a bad idea, but if that someone turns out to be the head of a security …
Terrifying video shows government spyware in action for the first time
With the Snowden leaks, Stingray and FBI surveillance planes always in the news, most people just assume that The Man has god-like surveillance capabilities on …
Brutally efficient phishing scam takes advantage of PayPal’s awfulness
Phishing scams that use fake login pages to steal account usernames and passwords are nothing new. The trick for hackers is to fool customers into …
Brand new malware discovered in Android apps on the Google Play store
Some people dismiss the threat that malware poses in the Android world, but the problem is still real. Individuals with malicious intent will always target the most …
Hacker who revealed Hillary’s email server sentenced to 4 years in prison
Marcel Lehel Lazar, the infamous hacker known as Guccifer, has been sentenced to 52 months in federal prison. Lazar pled guilty to a series of …
Google won’t own up to a major security flaw, researcher says
A security researcher who hunts bugs for a living says that Google won’t acknowledge one of his findings. According to Aidan Woods, the way Google’s …
Dropbox didn’t tell anyone about a giant hack for four years
We get it, companies get hacked all the time. And they’re not too eager to share details about data breaches, but they ultimately have to …
Researchers have replicated one of the NSA’s scariest hacking tools
One defense against malware is locking sensitive data that hackers want to steal from the Internet. That’s done through air-gapped PCs or computers that are …
Sri Lankan teen hacks president’s website to demand exam reschedule
It’s no secret that exam schedules can be annoying, but would you write your country’s president to voice your concerns? How about hacking their official …
Government caught using sophisticated one-click hacking tool in the wild
Researchers have discovered a scarily effective piece of malware, authored by an Israeli “cyber arms dealer,” that can completely hack an iPhone if the user …
