Hacking News

Computer systems at two universities are yet to be fully restored following ransomware attacks that struck them over 48 hours ago. On Wednesday 14th June, University College London and Ulster University both came under attack from ransomware. Security staff at the UCL Information Services Division (ISD) temporarily blocked access to shared and network drives to […]

Faced with skyrocketing complaints about tech-support scams, Microsoft is turning to artificial intelligence to identify the masterminds behind the fraud. Besides prettying up iPhone photos and blitzing Ms Pac-Man, Microsoft’s AI is helping fight the real-world problem of tech-support scams, whose operators are increasingly using the web to automate the fraud with pop-up ads that

A 25-year-old British man has pleaded guilty to breaking into a US Defense department satellite communication system and stealing data on employees and devices. The UK’s National Crime Agency said Sean Caffrey from Birmingham had admitted to taking information from more than 800 employee user accounts and 30,000 satellite phones. Read more

Australian sysadmins continue to live dangerously and expose insecure network services to a hostile internet, putting themselves at risk of compromise and information theft. Security vendor Rapid7 scanned much of the IPv4 internet [pdf] to check the extent of networked computer systems exposing services to the world. The scans ranked Australia ninth globally for offering more

Authorities have conducted a large-scale operation against cyber criminals in several European countries. As a result, 6 people have been arrested while 36 have been questioned after Europol, Germany’s Kriminalinspektion Mayen, the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) and Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) raided 20 houses in Cyprus, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom between 5th

After Samsung had failed to renew the domain of one of their pre-installed apps, millions of users were left open to malware attacks. The app S Suggest that was part of the older Samsung smartphones is still active on millions of devices. Its purpose was to help users by suggesting which other popular apps they

Giving children the opportunity to learn about cybersecurity is beneficial for a million different reasons. For starters, the younger you teach them the more (and faster) they learn. While most kids will go to camp for kayaking, cheerleading, or basketball, the kids local to Pensacola have the chance to do something a little different. Spending

Stop us if you’ve heard this one: an emergency access feature offered by RSA for SecurID token customers isn’t completely secure. That’s the opinion of pentest outfit Netspi, whose Alexander Leary worked out how to abuse the SecurID Emergency Access Tokencodes (EAT). The use-once codes are intended to provide a temporary access mechanism for someone

Stop us if you’ve heard this one: an emergency access feature offered by RSA for SecurID token customers isn’t completely secure. That’s the opinion of pentest outfit Netspi, whose Alexander Leary worked out how to abuse the SecurID Emergency Access Tokencodes (EAT). The use-once codes are intended to provide a temporary access mechanism for someone

A new study has warned that third-party trackers litter banking websites and the privacy-invading tech is being used to rate surfers’ creditworthiness. Among the top 10 financial institution websites visited in the US and UK, there are 110 third-party trackers snooping on surfers each time they visit. Online privacy firm eBlocker reports that PNC Bank has