In late 2018, the Marriott hotel chain announced that one of its reservation systems had been compromised, with hundreds of millions of customer records, including…
Category: Security
Insulin Pumps Recalled By FDA For Cybersecurity Risks
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning patients and healthcare providers that some insulin pumps carry cybersecurity risks. In an alert published on…
Russian state hackers rarely share code with one another
Russia’s state-sponsored hacking groups rarely share code with one another, and when they do, it’s usually within groups managed by the same intelligence service, a…
Here’s What Hackers Do With All Your Stolen Passwords
Hackers are constantly scouring the Internet for their next target. One of their favorite things to attack is a vulnerable database server. That’s because such…
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The Average Cost Of A Data Breach Is Highest In The U.S. [Infographic]
Globally, the impact of a data breach on an organization averages $3.86 million, though more serious “mega breaches” can cost hundreds of millions of dollars.…
Remote Hack Forces Gas Pump To Give Away $1800 Of Free Gas
One of the pumps at a Detroit area gas station was attacked by hackers recently. The compromised pump gave away more than 600 gallons of…
King iPhone Hacker NSO Group Robbed By Employee — Spyware On Dark Web Sale For $50 Million, Israel Claims
As well as becoming something of a bête noire of privacy and human rights activists, Israel’s NSO Group has established itself as one of the…
Urgent plea to prevent auction of $1.6B Bitcoin seized from Silk Road hacker
Bitcoin (BTC) influencer Pierre Rochard has called on lawmakers to prevent more than $1.6 billion worth of seized Bitcoin from being auctioned, proposing instead…
Zodiac Killer: Code-breakers solve San Francisco killer’s cipher
Code-breakers have cracked a 340-character cipher 51 years after it was purportedly sent to the San Francisco Chronicle by the so-called Zodiac Killer, the FBI…
Hackers steal Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data in Europe
U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to development of their COVID-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in…