Obama to clarify his stance on encryption by the holidays
The Obama administration plans to clarify its stance on strong encryption before Washington shuts down for the holidays. Administration officials met Thursday with the civil-society groups behind a petition urging the White House to back strong, end-to-end encryption over the objections of some law-enforcement and intelligence professionals. At that meeting, White House officials told representatives […]
Read moreInternet company Easily has been hacked
The hacks just keep on coming: Domain name company Easily has been hacked, the company announced in an email to customers on Thursday morning. It was “subjected to a targeted attack against our IT systems by an unknown third party,” it says. “A forensic investigation by independent experts has revealed that unauthorised access was gained […]
Read moreNASA’s not so keen to talk about quantum computer security
The D-Wave 2X quantum computer at NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing facility in Silicon Valley is an impressive machine. Engineers from NASA and Google are using it to research a whole new area of computing — one that’s years from commercialization but could revolutionize the way computers solve complex problems. The machine is also being used by […]
Read moreFirst ever EU rules on cybersecurity
Transport and energy companies will have to ensure that the digital infrastructure that they use to deliver essential services, such as traffic control or electricity grid management, is robust enough to withstand cyber-attacks, under new rules provisionally agreed by internal market MEPs and the Luxembourg Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers on Monday. “Today, […]
Read moreAfter asking UAE bank for $3 million ransom, hacker dumps customers history online
Just over week after a hacker breached a United Arab Emirates Bank, demanding a ransom to stop tweeting customers’ information, he appears to have dumped tens of thousands of customer files online. As captured in archived tweets on since-deleted accounts, a user identifying himself as “Hacker Buba” tweeted information, mostly of corporate accounts, that was […]
Read moreIrish broadband outfit Bluebox hacked for punter data
A NORTHERN IRISH broadband company has reportedly confessed to a data breach that could have affected as many as 3,000 of the company’s customers. ‘Tis apparently the season for data breaches and, while the firm, called Bluebox, has not confirmed its vulnerable position to us, it has managed to issue the kind of statement that […]
Read moreHackers hit three Greek banks with ransom demands
Hackers have staged cyber-attacks on three Greek banks and demanded a ransom in bitcoins, a virtual monetary unit, to stop their disruption, banking sources said on Monday. The sources said the hackers managed to block the Internet banking activity of three Greek lenders for a few hours last Thursday but did not penetrate the banks’ […]
Read moreTeenage boy arrested in Northern Ireland over TalkTalk hack
Police have arrested a 15-year-old boy in Northern Ireland in connection with the cyberattack on UK broadband provider TalkTalk last Wednesday. TalkTalk warned its 4 million customers on Friday that it had been hit by a “significant and sustained cyberattack” that might have left their data at risk. Over the weekend the company recruited defence […]
Read moreTalkTalk customer data at risk after cyber-attack on company website
Police are investigating a “significant and sustained” cyber-attack on the website of TalkTalk which could have compromised customers’ credit card and other personal details. The telecoms provider has 4 million customers in the UK. It is the second time in the past 12 months that TalkTalk customers have been affected by data breaches. “We are […]
Read moreIn a first, Chinese hackers are arrested at the behest of the U.S. government
The Chinese government has quietly arrested a handful of hackers at the urging of the U.S. government — an unprecedented step to defuse tensions with Washington at a time when the Obama administration has threatened economic sanctions. The action came a week or two before President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington late last month. […]
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