A Congressional investigation into the devastating hack of the US government's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has detailed shortcomings in the organisation's security and made recommendations for other federal departments to prevent the same from happening to them. The hefty 227-page report doesn't pull its punches about the seriousness of the...

One of the world's leading wire and cable manufacturers, Leoni AG, has been swindled out of a jaw-dropping 40 million Euros (approximately US $44 million) after it was targeted by an email scammer. As Softpedia reports, a young woman working in the finance department of Leoni's factory in Bistrita, Romania, received an email in mid-August claiming...

If you speak to most experts in the field, they'll agree on at least one thing: computer security isn't really a technological problem. Although the right software and hardware can help reduce the online threats your company might face, ultimately IT security is a human problem. And humans, as we all know from personal experience, aren't perfect and...

It's just a week since Apple announced its first-ever bug bounty for researchers who find vulnerabilities in its widely-used software and hardware, in the hope that it can provide better security and privacy to its millions of customers. The Cupertino-based company made headlines for its belated entry into the bug bounty marketplace, offering up to ...

Good samaritans and skinflints beware! Plugging in that USB stick you found lying around on the street outside your office could lead to a security breach. This is no secret, of course. We have all (hopefully) been aware of the dangers of inserting an unknown USB device into our computers for some time. Heck, the technique has even made it into the...

It was just after 6pm on December 23, 2013, and Lennon Ray Brown, a computer engineer at the Citibank Regents Campus in Irving, Texas, was out for revenge. Earlier in the day, Brown - who was responsible for the bank's IT systems - had attended a work performance review with his supervisor. It hadn't gone well. Brown was now a ticking time bomb...

Are you a fan of Warframe? Is so, Digital Extremes, the company behind the popular online game for the XBox One, Playstation 4 and PC, has some bad news for you. Last week we were made aware of a potential web server breach that occurred in November 2014. At the time, we believed this to be a phishing scam as our account server was secure. After a...

You visit a company on business, and want to print something out. You visit another department in your office and need a hard copy of a document in your email. You're a guest at someone's home and want to print off directions to the airport. What do you? Simple. You get Windows to quickly search for and add a printer hosted on the network, and off...

Quick question - are you right or left handed? That's a harmless enough question, but here's the follow-up: do you wear a smartwatch or fitness tracker on that same wrist? If you do, then you may want to rethink whether that was a sensible choice after you've read about some fascinating research done by a group of scientists from Binghamton...

An new exploit kit campaign is targeting websites running on out-of-date versions of the Joomla! and WordPress content management system (CMS). Researchers at Sucuri have been tracking the campaign for the past several weeks. They've codenamed it "Realstatistics" because it injects fake analytics code for "realstatistics[.]info" or "realstatistics[....

If you need any more evidence that ransomware has become a major problem, just look at how online criminals are busily developing attacks against platforms other than Windows. Yes, Windows continues to be the operating system most commonly targeted with ransomware threats - but malware that attempts to extort money out of you is also being actively...

Researchers have called for users to patch and upgrade their vulnerable software as soon as possible after three severe vulnerabilities were found in libarchive, a widely-used open source compression library. The libarchive programming library was originally developed for the FreeBSD project but is now used by software coders around the world to...

Users of popular online forums are being advised to change their passwords following the leak of some 45 million credentials. As LeakedSource reports, millions of user credentials from over 1,100 websites and communities - including techsupportforum.com, autoguide.com, petsguide.com and motorcycle.com - have been exposed after parent company...

In the last day or two, there have been a spate of posts by TeamViewer users claiming that their computers have been hijacked by malicious hackers, their PayPal and other banking accounts emptied, their webmail accessed, and malicious software installed. And the victims seem to believe the attacks are linked to their use of TeamViewer. ...

Fancy a career as a blackmailing cybercriminal but don't have the technical nous? Don't worry, you can easily find people all too willing to help you embark on your life in cybercrime via popular freelance-hiring websites. And, it seems, you may only need to pay five dollars to get a hacker to launch a debilitating denial-of-service attack against...

The LinkedIn hack of 2012 just got a whole lot worse. If you recall, in 2012 LinkedIn reset users' passwords after hackers broke into the network, stole a database of password hashes, and posted some 6.5 million account credentials on a Russian password forum. LinkedIn was left humbled by the security breach, which revealed that they had not used a...

In February 2015, the FBI seized control of computer servers running a child sexual abuse website called Playpen. But rather than shutting down the site immediately, the FBI chose to continue to make the site available, planting software that could collect the real IP and MAC addresses of users. On a regular website that might not be a hard thing to...

You know you're living in interesting times when an app designed to tell you if your iOS device has been jailbroken is outselling the likes of Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto. And that's exactly what a new app called System and Security Info has managed to do, topping the paid apps chart ahead of some of the world's most famous games. ...

Baby retailer Kiddicare has alerted nearly 800,000 customers that a recent data breach led to the exposure of their personal information. The UK-based company notified potentially affected customers via email, stating that the compromised information included names, delivery addresses, emails and phone numbers. Kiddicare stressed that the...

Business secrets could be at risk, after researchers discovered a worrying number of developers were posting access credentials for the Slack chat system on GitHub, embedded inside code repositories and public gists. Detectify Labs blew the whistle on the problem, reporting that it had uncovered thousands of Slack access tokens by simply searching...