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All Yahoo accounts were compromised in 2013

Yahoo says all of its 3bn accounts were compromised by 2013 hacking attack, contrary to what company previously said last December that only 1 billion accounts were affected by the hacking...

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Iranian hackers target Deloitte’s cybersecurity employee

As America frets over Russians running rampant on Facebook, other adversaries have been exploiting the social network as a way into some of the world's biggest businesses.A team of Iranian hackers used...

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Kiev Police detained a CyberCriminal for stealing and selling air tickets

Kiev Cyber Police detained a 40-year-old suspect, who is accused of illegally obtaining Ukrainians air tickets and selling them in his website.It is reported that the hacker exploited a vulnerability...

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17.5 million users of Disqus affected by a security breach

Comment hosting and management service Disqus has announced that they had suffered a major security breach in 2012 that affected 17.5 million of its users.An independent security researcher, Troy Hunt,...

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China denies allegations of cyberattacks in the US linked to Guo Wengui

China has denied responsibility for alleged cyber attacks in the United States appearing to target exiled tycoon Guo Wengui, who has levelled corruption allegations against senior Communist Party...

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Whole Foods is being secretive about credit card breach

The grocery chain, which was acquired by Amazon for $13.7 billion in late August, announced Thursday it "recently received information regarding unauthorized access of payment card...

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Taiwan Bank breach: Sri Lanka arrests two suspects

Sri Lankan police have arrested two people for allegedly planting a malware in a Taiwanese bank's servers to enable illicit transactions and sending unauthorized, doctored messages through the...

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Poland announced the establishment of CyberArmies to counter Cyber Threats

A separate type of army intended to combat threats in cyberspace will be established in Poland, Krakow. The Minister of Defence of Poland Antoni Macierewicz spoke about it on Monday during his...

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Deloitte hack affects 350 clients

A hack at global accounting firm Deloitte shocked the world last month, and further details have been thin on the ground until 10 October.Citing unnamed sources, the Guardian reported on Tuesday that a...

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How safe is it to share your Aadhar card details with someone?

Is India ready to be digital country? Do we have a cyper crime free mechanism to go digital? These are some basic real question that we need to ask before going full digital.Now and then Government of...

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WhatsApp flaw lets hackers monitor your online activity, sleeping pattern

A potential design flaw has been found in WhatsApp that will let anyone track a user's activity. While the contents of the messages can’t be read given that WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, the...

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Malware hits 41 Hyatt Hotel properties

Hyatt Hotel's payment card systems were infected with malware, which has exposed credit card data details from 41 hotels in 11 countries. The chain announced that their cybersecurity team had...

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Iran behind UK Parliament cyber-attack

British Parliamentarians became the victims of the cyber attack that attempted to uncover weak passwords used by lawmakers. According to a secret intelligence assessment, Iran was behind the attack, in...

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The cyberwar between the US and Russia will not happen

The Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov called accusations of espionage by the American media directed to the Kremlin and "Kaspersky Lab""absurd, baseless and unsubstantiated".At the...

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Critical data of 6,000 Indian companies up for sale on Darknet

The enterprise arm of a Pune based IT security firm, Quick Heal, Seqrite has claimed they spotted an advertisement on DarkNet forum that claims access to data of over 6,000 Indian businesses. This...

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Ransomware attack on Toshiba forces it to halt production of NAND Flash

Ransomware attacks forced Toshiba to cease NAND flash memory production, costing the business the equivalent of 400,000TB in SSD storage. In fact, Toshiba downed tools for up to six weeks following the...

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Russia is ready to release cryptoruble

To recall that last Thursday the establishment of national cryptocurrency was commissioned by the Russian President Vladimir Putin. This week the Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolay...

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Vulnerabilities in Wifi security protocol

Security experts at Belgian University KU Leuven have discovered a weakness in WPA2, a wireless security protocol that is being used worldwide for internet connection over Wifi network.The researchers...

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Most of the organised cyber crime originates in Russia

The infrastructure of Northern Ireland has been suffered a "significant" number of online attacks for quite some time by hostile nations, UK's top cyber security agency has revealed.CEO of National...

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Cyber-attack hits Czech Parliament Election

A number of websites of Czech statistical office (CZSO) have reportedly subjected to DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks during the counting process of recent parliamentary elections.The CZSO...

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