Bitcoin exchange MtGox faced massive hacker offensives last month, coming under some 150,000 DDoS attacks per second for several days ahead of its spectacular failure, a report said Sunday. The Tokyo-based exchange, which filed for ...
Tags: Bitcoin, Consumer Electronics
Apple said Monday it was developing a security fix for its Mac OS X computer operating system after a patch released for its iPhones and iPads to thwart hacker attacks. The California tech giant released its security update for the iOS 7 ...
If you didn’t know, now you know: there probably shouldn’t be any expectation that credit card information—or any personal details stored in digital form—is completely safe from hackers. Just as shoppers in the ...
Tags: Cybercrook, Cho Yeon-haeng, regulator, FSS
Toronto-based Matterform showcased a 3D scanner at this year's CES with two attention-drawing features: It is easy to use for designers, hobbyists and consumers and it is priced below $600. The company promotes the scanner as requiring no ...
Tags: 3-D Scanner
Yahoo, has acknowledged that its service sites were used by hackers to enslave massive numbers of ordinary PCs who did so to generate bitcoins, and by extension, real earnings. Ads were placed on Yahoo web sites that when clicked by users, ...
The hackers who got into your computer or smartphone are now taking aim at the Internet of Things. The connected toothbrush, sports gear with embedded sensors and smart refrigerators are just a few of the objects showcasing innovations at ...
Tags: Security Risks, IT, Electronics, Internet Security Risk
Pessimists are fond of saying that no good deed goes unpunished. An Australian teenager who reported a security vulnerability in a government website and now faces legal troubles probably agrees. Joshua Rogers, a 16-year-old Victoria ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
This year's 30th Chaos Communication Congress (30C3) in Hamburg from December 27 to December 30 carried numerous informative presentations, including a reverse-engineering story about SD cards, which two investigators explored for malware ...
Tags: 30C3, SD cards, reverse-engineering, malware, MITM attacks
Two “sinister playground bullies” have been jailed for a brazen attempt to extort a 50 percent share of a Manchester-based online casino using the threat of DDoS attacks capable of taking the business offline. Polish ...
Tags: Casino Firm, DDoS
A security researcher has released software and technical instructions for modifying a drone so that it can identify and hijack other drones. Security researcher Samy Kamkar created the hacker drone, which uses the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 ...
A man from Wisconsin was sentenced for participating in a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack by hacker group Anonymous on a Kansas company. Eric J. Rosol, 38, is admitted that on Feb. 28, 2011, he took part in a denial of service ...
Tags: Ddos Attack, Fined
A new type of Trojan horse computer virus could result in mass attacks on banks, exposing the personal details of an unprecedented number of online banking customers. Discovered by security software provider Kaspersky Labs, the Neverquest ...
Tags: warning, mass, Trojan, attack, against, online, bank, customer
A new Trojan programme that targets users of online financial services has the potential to spread very quickly over the next few months, security researchers warn. The malware was first advertised on a private cybercrime forum in July, ...
Tags: Online Banking, Threatonline, financial services, security
Security researchers have uncovered two unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE) which have been exploited by attackers in an unusual “watering hole” campaign launched from a U.S.-based website that specialises in ...
Tags: IE, zero-day, hacker, watering hole
For Motorola, the "touchless control" used on the Moto X could be just the beginning. If a just-published patent application from Google-owned Motorola Mobility is any indication, the company is actually more interested in devices that ...
Tags: Motorola