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...

In Memory of Our Friend, Rick Dakin

We are deeply saddened to announce that our founder and CEO Rick Dakin passed away suddenly over the weekend...

Gaana.com Hacked, 10 Million Users' Details Exposed

Gaana.com -- One of India's most popular music streaming service with more than 10 Million registered users and 7.5 Million monthly visitors -- has reportedly been hacked, exposing the site’s user information database. A Pakistani hacker, who claimed responsibility for the hack, claims that...

FBI: Business Email Compromise Scams Steal $214m in 2014

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 is sounding the alarm on a type of fraud they are calling business email compromise BEC scams. The scheme, formerly known as a man-in-the-email attack, comes in three distinct flavors, each of which is ultimately designed to dupe corporate employees o...

Russian Facebook 'VKontakte' Dramatically Fires Original Founder 'Pavel Durov'

Yesterday reports revealed that Pavel Durov, the 29-year-old founder of Russia’s most popular social networking site VKontakte VK - Russia’s Facebook, had been fired from his post of general director of Vkontakte. On monday, Durov said that the social networking site VK is now under the complete...

World’s largest Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox Shuts Down; CEO quits Bitcoin Foundation

World’s largest Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has shut down its website, withdrawal system, deleted its Twitter feed and halted all trading systems after it detected "unusual activity." The Bitcoin Foundation, a Bitcoin advocacy group, confirmed that Mark Karpeles, the chief executive of Tokyo-based M...

Jeremiah Grossman on His New Role as CEO of WhiteHat Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Jeremiah Grossman, the new interim CEO of WhiteHat Security, about taking on the new role, how things have changed since he was CEO 10 years ago and what the biggest challenges will be. Image via @biatch0‘s Flickr photostream, Creative Commons...

Stem Innovation - 'IZON' Hard-Coded Credentials

Stem Innovation ‘IZON’ Hard-coded Credentials CVE-2013-6236 Mark Stanislav - [email protected] I. DESCRIPTION --------------------------------------- Stem Innovation's IP camera called ‘IZON’ utilizes numerous hard-coded credentials within its Linux distribution and also the hidden web...

Yahoo! discourages Security Researchers with just $12.50 bug bounty for vulnerability reporting

Today more and more companies are looking for external security researchers to help identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in their applications through Bug Bounty Programs. While companies like Facebook and Google are paying out hundreds of dollars to researchers for reporting security...

China hit by massive DDoS attack causing the Internet inaccessibility for hours

During the weekend China's Internet was taken down by a powerful distributed denial of service DDoS attack on the .cn domain slowed and blocked Internet access inaccessibility for hours. Security expert clarified that China could have been perpetrated by sophisticated hackers or by a single...

LivingSocial Ups its Password Encryption After Breach

The popular daily deal site LivingSocial announced Monday it has abandoned the SHA1 hash for Blowfish’s bcrypt following a massive data breach that impacted 50 million customers. The company confirmed last weekend that its computer systems were attacked and thieves gained access to names, e-mail...

Google Joins FIDO Alliance Effort to Move Beyond Passwords

Google, which gradually has been moving its users away from using passwords as their main form of authentication for Web services, has joined a young organization whose goal is to phase out passwords and replace them with various forms of strong authentication. The FIDO Alliance, formed last year...

Eugene Kaspersky Chats With Facebook Users About Malware, Cybercrime and Piracy

Hi, folks! For the last two weeks each and every fan of official Kaspersky Lab Facebook pages worldwide had the chance to ask our CEO, Eugene Kaspersky, anything at all and we must say that some of our fans took this literally: Thank you for the hundreds of great questions! There’s nothing more...

Go Daddy CEO Denies Hackers Behind Major Outage

The CEO of Go Daddy said Tuesday internal issues, not a denial of service attack, left millions of hosted sites offline for several hours yesterday. In a statement, interim chief executive Scott Wagner said an internal investigation into the outage concluded no outside attack took place. “The...

Millions of Passwords leaked from Social Site Formspring

Formspring, a social Q&A website popular with teenagers,this week disabled its users' passwords after discovering a security breach. Formspring founder and CEO Ade Olonoh apologized to users for the inconvenience, and advised them to change their passwords when they log back into Formspring. A bl...

Anonymous: We Are Not Terrorists but Fearless Freedom Fighters

Anonymous: We Are Not Terrorists but Fearless Freedom Fighters Black Ops 2 trailer that was released recently, portrays the Anonymous organization as the enemy of the United States, which has pissed them off greatly. Anonymous has responded to Activision's marketing campaign for Call of Duty: Bla...

Greg Hoglund

In his presentation on Friday, “Lateral Movement and Other APT Interaction Patterns within the Enterprise,” HBGary CEO Greg Hoglund reviewed a multitude of modern day Advanced Persistent Threats APTs while breaking down the four stages of an attack...

Update: Zappos Says 24 Million Customers Affected By Data Breach

UPDATE: Online retailer Zappos said that its network has been compromised and attackers were able to access personal information belonging to more than 24 million of its customers. Zappos said that its database that contains customers’ credit card numbers was not compromised, however. “We were...

Stratfor Back Online After Hack with message for Anonymous Hackers

Stratfor Back Online After Hack with message for Anonymous Hacker Security analysis firm Stratfor has relaunched its website after Anonymous hackers brought down its servers and stole thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to its clients. Hacking collective...