Crooks hack into export company, email ids, dupe client of $31,000: A leading export house in the city has approached the cyber cell of Delhi Police after some unidentified crooks hacked into the company’s email ids and duped their clients by sending them mails on their behalf. The crooks have even managed to get $31,000 from […]

South Korea Officially Accuses North Korea of Cyberattacks on Government Systems: South Korea’s Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning has accused the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) of attacking the systems of several government agencies, including the website of the presidential office, on June 25. According to officials cited by Xinhua, the patterns used […]

NHS Surrey fined £200,000 after losing patients’ records: NHS Surrey has been fined £200,000 by data regulators over the loss of sensitive information about more than 3,000 patients. Thousands of children’s patient records were found on a second-hand NHS computer that was auctioned on eBay, the BBC understands. Regulators said NHS Surrey failed to check that […]

FBI Ransomware trojan now tricking Mac users into paying $300 fines: You’ve been caught viewing prohibited pornographic content. Now you need to pay $300 to “unlock” your Mac … or take your computer in for a potentially embarrassing servicing. Catch-22? That’s the premise behind a new version of the FBI Ransomware browser trojan that is targeting Mac users. […]

Google study finds users ignore Chrome security warnings: You’re surfing the ‘net when Chrome decides not to bring you the web site of your choice, but instead a page warning that the site you’d hoped to visit might be bogus or contain malware. A new study by Google has found that over 70 per cent of people […]

Nations Boost Cyber Defense Spending to Protect Critical Infrastructure: The increased focus on cyber-security is translating directly to increased spending. Just last month, a cyber-security budget from the DoD called for spending almost $23 billion through fiscal year 2018. The budget included initiatives to protect computer networks and to develop offensive capabilities. The budget requested $4.72 […]

Hacking The Emergency Alerting System: Last week CERT and IOActive (PDF) released advisories detailing the nature of the vulnerabilities and provided links to the updated firmware patches by the vulnerable vendors — Digital Alert Systems and Monroe Electronics. There was some confusion at the time because the vulnerable vendors appeared to have released patches for some […]

First video from Google Glass in a casino: ‘I felt like I was in a heist movie’: Documentary film producer, PRserve founder, and Google Glass explorer Chris Barrett attempted to do exactly that, the same weekend he recorded probably the first arrest on Google Glass. Apparently, however, it’s a little more difficult to get kicked out […]

Former Goldman Sachs Vice President Goes On Trial: Three years ago the Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges against Goldman Sachs and one of its traders, Fabrice Tourre. They were charged with misleading investors over mortgage-backed securities. Goldman settled and agreed to pay $550 million. Tourre’s trial began Monday in a Manhattan court room.

Canadian companies open to cyber attacks, says federal agency: Gaps in the cyber security efforts of Canadian corporations could be leaving them open to sophisticated attacks by hackers, records show. “The current situation is that there are an increasing number of new software vulnerabilities that can be exploited to gain access to companies’ networks,” reads […]