An open letter concerning my resignation from the Digital Economy Board of Advisors

Yesterday I resigned from my position as a member of the Department of Commerces Digital Economy Board of Advisors. It has been an honor to serve on the Board; however, I believe it is the responsibility of leaders to unequivocally denounce bigotry, racism, hate, and violence, and to respect...

Introducing the Qualys New Look and Positioning

Dear Customer, Partner and Security Professional, I would like to thank all of you for your support during our ongoing journey to a world where we are making security invisible and an integrated component of the Digital Transformation of our enterprises. With your help and the dedication of our...

FBI: Extortion, CEO Fraud Among Top Online Fraud Complaints in 2016

Online extortion, tech support scams and phishing attacks that spoof the boss were among the most costly cyber scams reported by consumers and businesses last year, according to new figures from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3. The IC3 report released Thursday correctly identifies...

Yahoo Tells SEC Executives Failed to Act on Breach

Yahoo’s quarterly SEC filings have been the only window into the massive data breaches that have exposed more than 1.5 billion records in the past four years. This week, Yahoo’s Q4 2016 filing was made public, and the view got uglier. The company admitted to the SEC and its investors that its...

Verizon wants $1 Billion Discount on Yahoo Acquisition Deal after Recent Scandals

It seems like it is not all over for Yahoo yet. Another day, another bad news for Yahoo! Verizon, which has agreed to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 Billion, is now asking for a $1 Billion discount, according to recent reports. The request comes after Verizon Communications learned about the recent...

Pokémon GO Creator's Twitter Account Hacked — Pika, Pikaaaa!

Twitter account of another high-profile CEO has been hacked! This time, it's Niantic CEO John Hanke, the developer behind the world's most popular game Pokémon GO. And it seems like Hanke is so busy with its newly launched game Pokémon GO that he hasn't noticed or took any measures against it eve...

Another CEO Hacked... It's Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey!

Twitter account of another high profile has been hacked! This time, it's Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. OurMine claimed responsibility for the hack, which was spotted after the group managed to post some benign video clips. The team also tweeted at 2:50 AM ET today saying "Hey, its OurMine,we are testi...

Oculus CEO's Twitter gets Hacked; Hacker declares himself new CEO

Twitter account of another high profile has been hacked! This time, it is Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe who had his Twitter account hacked Wednesday. Iribe is the latest in the list of technology chief executives to have had their social media accounts hacked in...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai's Quora Account Hacked

Nobody is immune to being Hacked! After hacking Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts, Hacking group OurMine has successfully hacked the Quora account Google CEO Sundar Pichai and then cross-posted to his Twitter account. The hack became apparent when OurMine posted messages on Quora...

Twitter Ex-CEO Dick Costolo Got Hacked!

The same group of teenage hackers that hacked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts have hacked another the Twitter account of another high-profile person. This time, it's Twitter's ex-CEO, Dick Costolo. The hacker group from Saudi Arabia, dubbed OurMine, compromised Twitt...

Breaking: Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 BILLLLLION

Breaking News for today: Microsoft has announced that it is planning to acquire LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, for $26.2 Billion in cash. Yes, Microsoft announced today that it would buy LinkedIn for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $26.2 BILLLLLLION. It is so...

Cybercrime Hit Businesses Hardest in 2015, says IC3 Report

Businesses were hit hardest by inbox-based scams in 2015 that robbed U.S. companies of $263 million. The numbers come from the FBI’s recently released 2015 Internet Crime Report that tallies the types of cybercrimes hitting U.S. business and individuals the hardest. According to the FBI, its...

Coalfire goes to Washington!

Our CEO Larry Jones visited The White House Thursday morning to join with First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Biden in the celebration of the Joining Forces initiatives fifth-year anniversary and announce Coalfires pledge to hire and train veterans and military spouses...

BlackBerry CEO Defends Lawful Access Principles, Supports Phone Hack

BlackBerry’s CEO made the company’s stance on lawful access requests clear this week and is defending actions to provide Canadian law enforcement with what it needed to decrypt communications between devices. The company’s CEO John Chen penned a statement on Monday, reiterating that one of...

Apple vs. FBI — Google Joins Tim Cook in Encryption Backdoor Battle

In the escalating battle between the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and Apple over iPhone encryption, former National Security Agency NSA contractor Edward Snowden and Google chief executive Sundar Pichai just sided with Apple's refusal to unlock iPhone. Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook refused...

Here’s the List of Top 10 Big Tech Companies where Ashley Madison is very Popular

Cheaters Exposed! Would it be the Impact Team or a woman ex-employee who worked for Avid Life Media as per John McAfee claims, the hackers that breached the cheater's dating website Ashley Madison has made the world aware of a lot of unfaithful people. The data crunching firm Dadaviz has analysed...

Ashley Madison Hackers (with another 300GB Dump) – Wait, Cheaters! We haven't Yet Done

Over a month ago, a group of hackers breached the popular cheater's dating service Ashley Madison and its parent company Avid Life Media, affecting tens of Millions site customers private life and also dump the website's source code onto the dark web. The hackers behind the Ashley Madison hack, w...

Ashley Madison 2.0 — Hackers Leak 20GB Data Dump, Including CEO's Emails

The Impact Team – Wait, Cheaters! We haven't yet done. The group of hackers behind the breach of Ashley Madison, the popular cheater's dating service, have released a second, even much bigger 'cheat sheet' exposing sensitive materials that include sensitive corporate information. Two days ago, th...

A New Company Called Alphabet Now Owns Google; Sundar Pichai Becomes New CEO

Well, this was a very unexpected move by Google. Google Co-Founder Larry Page announced a restructuring of the whole company, revealing the creation of the umbrella "Alphabet" corporation. But, don’t worry… Google isn’t dead! Rather, Google will become part of Alphabet. Why Google Rebrands As...

Mt.Gox Bitcoin Exchange CEO Arrested by Japanese Police

Remember Mt.Gox? Once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange… ...then in early 2014, Tokyo-based Mt.Gox Bitcoin exchange filed for bankruptcy saying it lost some 8,50,000 Bitcoins worth $64 Million to hackers and suddenly went dark with no explanation. Last Friday, Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of...