Secretary of State says Russia is ‘clearly’ behind federal agency hacks

Posted on 19/12/2020 by Engadget

The Trump administration is starting to point fingers after a slew of state-sponsored cyberattacks against US agencies in recent times. According to the Washington Post, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the Mark Levin Show that Russia was “pretty...

Foreign state hackers reportedly breached the US Treasury

Posted on 13/12/2020 by Engadget

Foreign hackers may be running rampant in the US government. Reuters sources said a group backed by a foreign government stole data from the Treasury Department and the internet policy-focused NTIA. While details are still limited, it was reportedly...

iPhone exploit gave hackers control over WiFi without your input

Posted on 02/12/2020 by Engadget

Many security exploits require at least some kind of interaction on your part, but that wasn’t true for an iPhone exploit earlier this year. As Ars Technica reports, Google Project Zero researcher Ian Beer has detailed an iOS 13 exploit that let some...

Hacker sells access to hundreds of corporate executives’ email accounts

Posted on 29/11/2020 by Engadget

Hackers are fond of hijacking email accounts, and one of them may have obtained a motherlode of potential targets. ZDNet and Gizmodo report that a hacker is selling claimed access to “hundreds” of C-suite executives’ Microsoft-based email accounts, i...

A ransomware attack has shut down Baltimore’s public schools

Posted on 25/11/2020 by Engadget

Students in the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) system have suddenly found themselves with an extra day off for the Thanksgiving holiday, but it wasn't because of a snow day. As The Verge reports, an apparent ransomware attack took BCPS' inter...

FX and Hulu are airing a documentary on the teenage Twitter hacker

Posted on 17/11/2020 by Engadget

It’s been a busy year, so we’ll forgive you if you’ve forgotten about this one.On July 15th, 2020, Twitter was the target of a widespread, disruptive hacking campaign. More than 100 high-profile accounts — including those of Jeff Bezos, Uber, Apple,...

‘Watch Dogs: Legion,’ a game about hacking, may be victim of a hack

Posted on 04/11/2020 by Engadget

It seemed like just a matter of time before the hack-the-world game Watch Dogs: Legion was itself the victim of a breach, and it might have happened sooner than you expected. According to Rock Paper Shotgun, the ransomware outfit Egregor claims to ha...

Barnes & Noble confirms hack exposed customer details

Posted on 15/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Barnes & Noble has emailed its customers saying that it has been the “victim of a cybersecurity attack,” in which personal data was accessed. The breach not only affected B&N’s corporate IT systems but the Nook e-reader platform as well, leav...

Former Uber security chief arrested for covering up 2016 hack

Posted on 20/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Federal prosecutors have charged Uber's former security chief, Joseph Sullivan, with obstruction of justice for attempting to hide the company's 2016 data breach from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The hack exposed the email addresses and phone...

World’s biggest cruise line company hit by ransomware attack