Hackers almost exclusively use standard network admin tools to move around a compromised network once they’ve broken in using malware or other hacking techniques. Researchers at security startup LightCyber found that 99 per cent of post-intrusion cyberattack activities did not

The hacker who claims to have breached the Democratic National Committee’s networks is trying to beat back accusations that he’s linked with the Russian government. The intrusion, which stole confidential files from the DNC, was his “personal project,” hacker Guccifer

One has to admit that after wiki leaks, cyber attacks have become one of the most feared forms of bullying. Hacking has increased over the years and no one seems to be safe from it, whether it is the life

A teenager from Croxteth was arrested this morning on suspicion of computer hacking, blackmail and fraud after an instagram account was hacked. Detectives from Titan, along with officers from Merseyside Police , executed the Computer Misuse Act warrant at the

The U.S. Congress has a small window of time to stop proposed changes in federal court rules that will expand the FBI’s authority to hack into computers during criminal investigations, a senator said Thursday. The rule changes allowing expanded FBI searches

After two days of evidence, Lauri Love still does not know whether he will be extradited to the United States. In hearings at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, the Judge heard from 15 witnesses for the defence, but none from the prosecution.

Security firm Bitdefender has found a vulnerability in public cloud infrastructures which it said allows a third party to eavesdrop on communications encrypted with transport layer security (TLS) protocol. The vulnerability is leveraged by Bitdefender for its own research purposes,

Apple released a firmware for their wireless router today that patches a critical vulnerability. The flaw, a memory corruption issue stemming from DNS (Domain Name System) data parsing, allows arbitrary code execution, Macworld is reporting. The new firmware, 7.6.7 and

Tavis Ormandy, a member of Google’s Project Zero initiative, has discovered a series of vulnerabilities in Symantec’s security products. Due to the nature of these flaws, they affect a large number of Symantec products, and not all can be patched

Just like many of the apps from the Microsoft Office collection, open-source office suite LibreOffice can be an attractive target for malware coders if enough vulnerabilities provide them with a way to infect end users. For the past few years,

Today, June 30, 2016, Canonical has published a new security notice to inform users of the Ubuntu Linux operating system that the latest LibreOffice builds have landed in the repositories. According to Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3022-1, LibreOffice 5.1.4 is now

GOVERNMENT DIGITAL SERVICES (GDS) websites will use HTTPS encryption from 1 October, according to new security guidelines. And about time too. In addition, all services will have to publish a Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC) policy applicable to

Mobile messaging giant Line has announced that it’s introducing end-to-end encryption by default for all users, from July 1. The Japanese tech company first launched the so-called “letter-sealing” privacy feature in October last year, but it hasn’t been activated by

The House Committee on Homeland Security issued a report called “Going Dark, Going Forward,” in which it found after more than 100 meetings and briefings with stakeholders impacted by the use of encryption that the whole encryption debate may be

The business world is a dangerous place. When it comes to email, things can quickly go from bad to worse. While most companies use security for data at rest, the connection into a server, and as a login to the

US Republican congressional staff trying to find a middle ground on encryption have said previous efforts to regulate privacy technology were flawed and that lawmakers need to learn more about technology before trying to regulate it, according to a report