Hackers stories - Page 5

Hackers at DEFCON were able to exploit vulnerabilities in voting machines in a matter of minutes - ICIT breaks down just how easy it is.

​It would seem winter has come for HBO after hackers have stormed the company’s servers and looted the jewels within to leak data online.

Known as CopyKittens, the group is politically-motivated and has increasingly been active in pursuing foreign espionage on strategic targets.

Honey tokens, which are honeypots that are not computers, are easily studied and avoided by the average attacker.

​In the second heist this week, hackers have stolen around US$32 million - Webroot senior threat analyst shares his commentary and insights.

As AlphaBay vanishes, the dark web braces for upheaval, with markets jostling for supremacy or a radical shift to P2P trading.

Most of us get a mental image of an anonymous, hooded figure, bent over a computer in some dark recess of the web when the word hacker is mentioned.

Tenable director says the significance of this malware as a stand-alone event is in fact quite small - but vendors have some catching up to do.

Vaping can be risky in unexpected ways as a security researcher demonstrates how a modified vaporizer can pass code to a computer.

Chaos at Samsung: Hackers bypass S8 iris scan with picture and contact lens, exposing security flaws in high-tech system.

The hackers have demanded an enormous undisclosed amount of money be paid in Bitcoin. Disney apparently refuses to pay, and is working with the FBI.

An unidentified hacker has released the highly anticipated Season 5 episodes of popular Netflix show Orange is the New Black.

Study reveals how insiders' blunders cost firms dearly, with 99% facing such issues in the last two years.

Singtel Innov8 and HPE are some of the big investor names behind the first hacker-powered intelligence platform to the world.

If you know what you’re looking for you might be able to spot a potential hacker and an impending cyber attack.

A new survey by Consilio found that legal technology professions remain ignorant of China’s new cybersecurity law.

The study confirms suspicions that attack methods are becoming ever more unique, with 50% of hackers changing their attack methods for every target.

360 Enterprise Security Group has commented on China’s inability to keep foreign cyber attacks out of its walls, and cyber crime is now ‘borderless'.

Under the veil of cybersecurity, regulators will have access to information that could benefit Chinese firms at the expense of foreign business.

Kiwi companies big and small are in the running for New Zealand's top infosec awards. And the iSanz finalists are...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’d be aware of the recent hacking of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) - here's Webroot's insights.

New research has found that it is taking APAC much longer than the rest of the world to detect cyber threats: a median 520 days.

Security researchers Kaspersky Lab & bug bounty platform Hacker One are co-launching a Bug Bounty Program that offers $50,000 to security researchers.

Norton unveils a new app to secure personal data on risky public Wi-Fi, as their report reveals user confusion aids hackers.