Cybercriminals are increasingly launching attacks focussed on obtaining cryptocurrencies. The recent rapid rise in value of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum has not only led scores of people to invest in digital currencies but also altered the threat landscape

A hacker who was arrested and pleaded guilty last year—not because he hacked someone, but for creating and selling a remote access trojan that helped cyber criminals—has finally been sentenced to serve almost three years in prison. Taylor Huddleston, 26,

Multiple customers of JP Morgan Chase reported unusual activities in bank account login due to internal glitch and it shows another persons account information when the user logged in their own account. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leading global

Password management service 1Password has a neat new feature that lets users check whether a password they’re thinking of using has already been breached. At which point it will suggest they pick another. This is in addition to the more

Hackers are using SSH brute-force attacks to take over Linux systems secured with weak passwords and are deploying a backdoor named Chaos. Attacks with this malware have been spotted since June, last year. They have been recently documented and broken

ADWARE THAT INFECTS your computer to display pop-ups is an annoyance. But when it infects as many as one in five networks in the world, and hides the capability to do far more serious damage to its victims, it’s an

OVER THE PAST year, two digital disasters have rocked the internet. The botnet known as Mirai knocked a swath of major sites off the web last September, including Spotify, Reddit, and The New York Times. And over the past week,

Thousands of documents from US and international citizens were exposed on an Amazon S3 bucket configured for public access. Data belonging to thousands of global FedEx customers was exposed on an unsecured Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) server configured for

Two Russian Nationals were given US federal prison sentences for their respective roles in a 2013 data breach which compromised 160 million credit card numbers and resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Vladimir Drinkman, 37, and Dmitriy

Any individual or company is at risk of a cyber-attack and without the right protection in place, any computer or device can be vulnerable to security violations – particularly as those levelling the threats use new technology to enhance their