Microsoft brushed off a dubious hacker's claim on Thursday that he stole 47 million account credentials for Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service. The hacker, who goes by the Twitter handle "@Reckz0r," wrote on Pastebin that Microsoft ...
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U.S. companies should be allowed to take aggressive countermeasures against hackers seeking to steal their intellectual property, contends the private Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property. The 100-page report, ...
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Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the group against corporate and government websites in 2011. Ryan Cleary , 21, Jake Davis, 20, ...
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Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde is planning to run for the European Parliament in 2014. The Pirate Bay co-founder wants to run as a candidate for the Finnish Pirate Party, he said in a blog post on Tuesday announcing his candidacy to ...
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The Android threat landscape is growing in both size and complexity with cybercriminals adopting new distribution methods and building Android-focused malware services, according to a report from Finnish security vendor F-Secure. The ...
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A local council in regional NSW has emerged as the supposed target of alleged computer hacker Matthew Flannery, the self-proclaimed leader of the international cyber-crime syndicate Lulzsec, police say. Mr Flannery, 24, known by the ...
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Intruders used to creep in through ventilation ducts. Now they break in using the software that controls the ventilation. Hundreds of organizations across Australia are using out-of-date industrial control systems (ICS) to control the ...
Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised. Hackers might have ...
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Sony has moved back into profit for the financial year to 31 March, reporting profits of 43bn yen (280m), after four consecutive years of losses. The Japanese firm said it expected earnings to grow by an additional 16 per cent this year ...
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A so-called "watering hole" hacking attack on the US Department of Labor website last week has spread to nine more global websites over the weekend, including those used by European aerospace and nuclear researchers. Originally discovered ...
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D-Link has published beta patches for vulnerabilities in the firmware of many of its IP surveillance cameras, which could allow a hacker to intercept a video stream. The company said on its support forum that it will publish a full ...
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D-Link has published beta patches for vulnerabilities in the firmware of many of its IP surveillance cameras, which could allow a hacker to intercept a video stream. The company said on its support forum that it will publish a full ...
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Ninety per cent of passwords are vulnerable to hacking because even supposedly secure passwords typically share common characteristics. Because people are required to generate so many passwords with particular characteristics - at least ...
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Technology organisations are among the most frequently attacked by hackers, according to the latest ‘Advanced Cyber Attack Landscape’ report and interactive maps by FireEye. The report and maps provide detailed insight into ...
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The cyber attack Friday on the Internet deal site LivingSocial that forced it to reset the passwords of some 50 million users has elements of what's becoming an all too familiar storyline. Along with the names, birth dates, and email ...
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