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A California financing company exposed up to 1 million records online that contained names, addresses, fragments of Social Security numbers and data related to vehicle loans, according to a researcher’s report. The data comes from Alliance Direct Lending, which is …
Chipmaker Intel has issued a security alert for a flaw that has existed in many of its non-consumer chipsets for a decade. The flaw could be exploited by attackers, using Intel’s own remote-management tools, to install malware on devices and …
HAWTHORNE, CA May 1, 2017 OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS) today announced that its Security division has received a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) 2-year contract extension from the U.S. Department of Defense valued at approximately $23 million to provide training, …
PALM BEACH, FL, May 2, 2017 SceneDoc Inc., a global law enforcement and public safety software provider, today announced the completion of a round of financing co-led by Responder Ventures (Palm Beach, FL), Motorola Solutions Venture Capital (Schaumburg, Illinois) and …
Isis member Samata Ullah, who ran ‘one-stop shop’ for terrorists from his bedroom, pleaded guilty to five terrorism offences A man who hid his support for Islamic State on a James Bond-style cufflink as he created an online hub of …
Stored-value cards are highly vulnerable to exploitation by foreign fighters and criminals, Austrac warns Australian militants are using readily available travel and gift cards to travel to Middle East conflict zones and bankroll terrorist attacks, an intelligence agency report has …
In March, HR 1344, also known as the State Cyber Resiliency Act, was introduced by a bipartisan group of legislators. That piece of legislation focused on providing grants to state and local governments to fund efforts to improve cyber defenses and cyber …
International security experts focused on protecting national IT systems have competed and completed Locked Shields 2017, the annual live-fire cyber defense exercise organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia. The team from the Czech …
By NICOLE PERLROTH and MATTHEW HAAG A hacker who claims to have stolen unreleased television shows from several major networks shared the coming season of the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black” on Saturday after the person said the streaming service failed to …
HELSINKI — Finland has rolled out significant legislative and intelligence facility funding proposals meant to strengthen national security and cyber-defense infrastructure. One major initiative includes the establishment in Helsinki of the NATO-supported European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats, or ECE-CHT. …
Artificial intelligence and machine learning can identify threats to an organisation – but at what cost to privacy and whistleblowers? Troubled by something deeply unethical going on at work? Or maybe you’re plotting to leak sensitive information on the company …
The calls were linked to the evacuation of more than 20 schools at the start of the 2016 school year An Israeli teenager charged this week with making more than 2,000 hoax bomb threats to schools, Jewish centres, hospitals and …
The process of buying or selling a home can be extremely stressful and complex, but imagine the stress that would boil up if — at settlement — your money was wired to scammers in another country instead of to the settlement …
Critics say the social media giant has played a big role in the polarization of information. But getting to the truth won’t be so simple. It is tempting to say there are two kinds of people these days: those who …
Google and other browsers now point out when the website you are visiting isn’t using a secure connection to protect your information. Q. I was browsing online and noticed a small letter “i” in a circle. What does that mean? …
A 20-year-old man from the United Kingdom was sentenced to two years in prison today after admitting to operating and selling access to “Titanium Stresser,” a simple-to-use service that let paying customers launch crippling online attacks against Web sites and …
Adam Mudd jailed for two years for creating attack-for-hire business responsible for more than 1.7m breaches worldwide A man has been jailed for two years for setting up a computer hacking business that caused chaos worldwide. Adam Mudd was 16 …
Mark Zuckerberg now acknowledges the dangerous side of the social revolution he helped start. But is the most powerful tool for connection in human history capable of adapting to the world it created? In early January, I went to see …
Angry users assailed Slice Intelligence and its service Unroll.me, which scans email inboxes, after it was reported that Uber had used the company’s data. For months, Uber has paid a public price for some of the questionable tactics it has …
The Kremlin denied the allegations that Russian hackers breached email accounts at Denmark’s Defense Ministry and Foreign Ministry in 2015 and 2016. MOSCOW — The Kremlin on Monday denied accusations that “key elements” of the Russian government had hacked into …
