- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 28th, 2016
Silk Road Drug Lords Arrested in Finland
Group started selling drugs on Silk Road, then evolved
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 25th, 2016
PowerShell Script Steals Credentials from IIS Config File
Crooks looking for MSSQL and other credentials
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 25th, 2016
Sony Adds Two-Step Verification to PlayStation Network
Sony adds 2SV five years after the famous PSN outage
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 23rd, 2016
DDoS Attack Hits Blizzard on Final Day of Overwatch Summer Games Event
Blizzard's Battle.net goes down for three hours today
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 23rd, 2016
Juniper Confirms Shadow Brokers Firewall Implants
Company still investigating, no fixes or mitigations out yet
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 21st, 2016
GnuPG Project Fixes "Critical Security Problem" That Existed Since 1998
Users should update GnuPG and Libgcrypt, if they use them
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 18th, 2016
UK Police Arrest Sage Employee at London Airport
32-year-old woman suspected of recent Sage data breach
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 17th, 2016
Canadian Police Lobbies for Law That Would Force People to Reveal Passwords
RCMP officials claim they need a way to criminalize acts of intentional withholding of critical case data
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 13th, 2016
Silk Road Admin Libertas to Be Extradited from Ireland to the US
Irish court decides to extradite Gary Davis to the US
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 10th, 2016
Microsoft Deprecates RC4 Support in Edge and Internet Explorer
Companies are encouraged to use TLS 1.2 where possible
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 9th, 2016
Bitcoin Wallets Removed from Apple App Store After Users Reported Stolen Funds
Users reported stolen funds after installing the fake apps
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 8th, 2016
Irish National Police Service Shuts Down IT Systems to Mitigate Cyber-Attack
Authorities avoid disaster at the last moment
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 6th, 2016
2 Crooks Arrested for Stealing over 100 Dodge and Jeep Cars Using Only a Laptop
Stolen vehicles were moved across the border, into Mexico
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 3rd, 2016
Anonymous Hackers Attack Czech Finance Minister Because of New Gambling Law
DDoS attacks hit companies owned by Andrew Babis
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 2nd, 2016
UK Hosting Firm Downed in 30 Gbps DDoS Attack
123-Reg suffers downtime following massive attack
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 2nd, 2016
GhostMail Shuts Down, Says "the World Has Changed for the Worse"
Company moves operations to the enterprise sector only
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 1st, 2016
Microsoft Disables SwiftKey Word Prediction Feature After Data Leak Rumors
Company says only a small number of users were affected