WikiLeaks Won't Disclose CIA Exploits To Companies Until Certain Demands Are Met

It's been over a week since Wikileaks promised to hand over more information on hacking tools and tactics of the Central Intelligence Agency CIA to the affected tech companies, following a leak of a roughly 8,761 documents that Wikileaks claimed belonged to CIA hacking units. "We have decided to...

Senator Demands Answers About CloudPets Breach

A U.S. senator has called Spiral Toys onto the carpet for its data security practices in light of the recent CloudPets breach. Sen. Bill Nelson D-FL, a ranking member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and backer of a 2016 report on security and privacy concerns related to...

Hadoop, CouchDB Next Targets in Wave of Database Attacks

Insecure Hadoop and CouchDB installations are the latest targets of cybercriminals who are hijacking and deleting data. Last week, security researchers said 28,000 MongoDB and Elasticsearch installations were hacked in a new wave of attacks against unprotected open source data management platform...

Major Carriers AT&T, Comcast Continue to Lag in EFF Privacy Report

While many companies have made strides when it comes to how they handle transparency and government requests post-Snowden, major telecoms such as AT&T and Verizon continue to lag behind. Despite publishing transparency reports within the last year, the two companies scored the lowest on the...

Attacking ICS Systems 'Like Hacking in the 1980s'

PUNTA CANA–Here’s how nuts the world of ICS security is: Jonathan Pollet, a security consultant who specializes in ICS systems, was at a Texas amusement park recently and the ride he was waiting for was malfunctioning. The operator told him the ride used a Siemens PLC as part of the control syste...

Revoyem DirtyDecrypt Ransomware Spreads Internationally

A strain of the Revoyem ransomware, also known as DirtyDecrypt, is aggressively spreading beyond Germany and Great Britain, the first two countries in which it was spotted back in March. A researcher who goes by the handle Kafeine reports on his Malware Don’t Need Coffee website that Revoyem is...

Microsoft Asks AG to Let It Publish Detailed Data Request Information

Microsoft, responding to allegations that the company has helped the NSA circumvent encryption in Skype and Outlook.com and provided direct access to data from those and other services, says that it does none of those things and is petitioning the government for permission to publish more...

FBI themed Mac OS X Ransomware Malware demands $300 Fine

Ransomware is a type of malware that attempts to extort money from a computer user by infecting and taking control of the victim's machine, or the files or documents stored on it. This kind of malware has typically been the domain of Windows users, but has made its way to OS X. A new piece of FBI...

Ransomware Extortion Scam Locks Machines, Demands Payment

The latest ransomware scam is locking down infected machines and displaying localized webpages warning users that their computer contains “banned material” and won’t be unlocked until a fine is paid, according to a report from McAfee’s Naganathan Jawahar. The Trojan displays a warning, purportedl...

Syrian president's e-mail hacked by Saudi hackers

Syrian president's e-mail hacked by Saudi hackers According to report received to THN editorial, A hacker based out of Saudi Arabia, identified as Salman Al Anzi, claims to have hacked the private email account of Syrian president Bashar Al Assad. He also hack a number of Syrian ministries, the...

77 Law Enforcement websites hit in mass attack by #Antisec Anonymous

77 Law Enforcement websites hit in mass attack by Antisec Anonymous Because of FBI's actions against Anonymous and Lulzsec including several arrests, Now AntiSec supporters have targeted 77 law enforcement domains and walked away with everything on them. 77 domains were hosted on the same server...

Spanish Police Arrest Alleged Nintendo Hacker !

Spanish police say they've arrested a hacker who threatened to go public with personal information he found in a Nintendo database on about 4,000 of the company's users. Nintendo's Spanish division, Nintendo Ibérica, was approached by the hacker, who was seeking to blackmail the company, Spain's...

Security budget issues to resonate at RSA Conference

From SearchSecurity Robert Westervelt The glum economy has put increased pressure on CISOs to cut costs while maintaining the same security defenses. Tightening budgets, coupled with increased compliance demands could have security professionals looking for answers next week at the 2009 RSA...