Slashdot Items Tagged "cybersecurity"

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Friday April 19, 2024 @12:19AM FBI Says Chinese Hackers Preparing To Attack US Infrastructure
Wednesday March 20, 2024 @02:58AM 'Disabling Cyberattacks' Are Hitting Critical US Water Systems, White House Warns
Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:53PM Stanford University Failed To Detect Ransomware Intruders For 4 Months
Tuesday February 20, 2024 @05:28PM Fingerprints Can Be Recreated From the Sounds Made When Swiping On a Touchscreen
Monday October 30, 2023 @10:03PM SEC Charges SolarWinds CISO With Fraud and Cybersecurity Failures
Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:44PM Ukrainian Hackers and Intel Officers Partner Up In Apparent Hack of a Top Russian Bank
Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:43PM US Conservatives Are Trying To Kill Government's Top Cyber Security Agency
Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:36PM Okta Cybersecurity Breach Wipes Out More Than $2 Billion In Market Cap
Friday October 06, 2023 @03:52PM NSA Shares Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations
Thursday October 05, 2023 @08:07PM MGM Says Computer Hack Will Cost It $100 Million In Lost Profit
Wednesday September 20, 2023 @06:39AM The International Criminal Court In The Hague Says It Has Been Hacked
Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:51PM A Popular Password Hashing Algorithm Starts Its Long Goodbye
Tuesday April 18, 2023 @04:57PM Cybersecurity Nightmare in Japan Is Everyone Else's Problem Too
Tuesday March 28, 2023 @01:51PM Microsoft Unveils OpenAI-Based Chat Tools for Fighting Cyberattacks
Monday March 27, 2023 @05:06PM US Military Needs 7th Branch Just For Cyber, Leaders Say
Wednesday March 15, 2023 @01:50AM Two US Men Charged In 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal
Wednesday January 11, 2023 @06:09PM A Government Watchdog Spent $15,000 To Crack a Federal Agency's Passwords In Minutes
Monday December 26, 2022 @03:38PM Cyber Attacks Set To Become 'Uninsurable,' Says Zurich Chief
Friday December 16, 2022 @05:40PM 66% of Cybersecurity Analysts Experienced Burnout This Year, Report Finds
Friday December 16, 2022 @09:47AM Cybersecurity Lessons from the LAUSD (LA Unified School) Cyberattack 2022
Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:40AM leverageitc Cybersecurity Reno
Monday October 31, 2022 @12:35PM FTC Accuses Ed Tech Firm Chegg of 'Careless' Data Security
Monday October 24, 2022 @10:46AM UK Fines Outsourcer For Failing To Stop Cyberattack
Tuesday October 18, 2022 @05:50PM Germany Fires Cybersecurity Chief 'Over Russia Ties'
Monday October 10, 2022 @04:21PM Germany's Cybersecurity Chief Faces Dismissal, Reports Say
Friday September 23, 2022 @09:42AM Australia Phones Cyber-Attack Exposes Personal Data
Tuesday September 06, 2022 @04:26PM China Accuses US of 'Tens of Thousands' of Cyberattacks
Thursday August 11, 2022 @04:50PM Mac Hacker's Code Is So Good, Corporations Keep Stealing It
Wednesday June 01, 2022 @03:41PM FBI Blocked Planned Cyberattack on Children's Hospital
Tuesday April 12, 2022 @06:07PM Russia's Sandworm Hackers Attempted a Third Blackout In Ukraine
Monday March 28, 2022 @02:53PM 'Most Severe' Cyberattack Since Russian Invasion Crashes Ukraine Internet Provider
Wednesday March 23, 2022 @06:12PM Teen Suspected By Cyber Researchers of Being Lapsus$ Mastermind
Wednesday March 23, 2022 @02:45PM How Microsoft Plans To Fill 3.5 Million Cybersecurity Jobs
Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:05PM Cybersecurity Firm Says Chinese Hackers Breached Six US State Agencies
Tuesday March 08, 2022 @10:42AM Google To Acquire Cybersecurity Company Mandiant for $5.4 Billion
Friday February 25, 2022 @05:04PM NVIDIA Hit By Major Cyberattack That May Have 'Completely Compromised' Parts of Its Business
Friday February 25, 2022 @08:36AM Ukraine Calls on Hacker Underground To Defend Against Russia
Wednesday December 29, 2021 @01:25PM Biden Signs NDAA Relying on Voluntary Private-Sector Cybersecurity Collaboration
Thursday December 23, 2021 @07:41PM New Log4J Flaw Caps Year of Relentless Cybersecurity Crises
Tuesday December 21, 2021 @05:37PM US, Britain Help Ukraine Prepare for Potential Russian Cyberassault
Thursday October 14, 2021 @11:54PM Acer Confirms It Was Hacked Again As Culprits Flaunt 60GB of Stolen Customer Data
Friday September 17, 2021 @03:06PM A US Company Sold iPhone Hacking Tools To UAE Spies
Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:36PM The State Department and 3 Other US Agencies Earn a D For Cybersecurity
Thursday July 15, 2021 @12:36PM Mysterious Israeli Spyware Vendor's Windows Zero-Days Caught in the Wild
Thursday July 15, 2021 @10:23AM UK-listed Cybersecurity Firm Avast in Merger Talks With NortonLifeLock
Monday June 28, 2021 @04:53PM China's Cyber Power At Least a Decade Behind the US, Study Finds
Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:11PM French Spyware Bosses Indicted For Their Role In the Torture of Dissidents
Wednesday May 26, 2021 @05:23PM DarkSide Will Be Back, As Russia, China, Iran Create 'Safe Havens' For Hackers
Monday April 26, 2021 @04:27PM Network Security Company Proofprint Goes Private In $12.3 Billion Deal
Thursday April 22, 2021 @01:02PM China Behind Another Hack as US Cybersecurity Issues Mount
Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:40PM North Korean Hackers Have Targeted Security Researchers Via Social Media
Tuesday January 19, 2021 @06:02PM Malwarebytes Said It Was Hacked By the Same Group Who Breached SolarWinds
Monday January 11, 2021 @06:48PM Researchers Test UN's Cybersecurity, Find Personal Data On 100K Employees
Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:42PM FBI Probe of Major Hack Includes Project-Management Software From JetBrains
Tuesday November 17, 2020 @11:12PM Trump Fires Election Security Director Who Corrected Voter Fraud Disinformation
Friday October 23, 2020 @03:24PM National Guard Called In To Thwart Cyberattack in Louisiana Weeks Before Election
Tuesday October 06, 2020 @04:19PM Cisco Ordered To Cough Up $2 Billion Plus Royalties After Ripping Off Biz's Cybersecurity Patents
Tuesday September 29, 2020 @05:03PM All Four of the World's Largest Shipping Companies Have Been Hit By Cyberattacks
Thursday September 17, 2020 @04:45PM US Charges Chinese and Malaysian Hackers In Global Hacking Campaign
Thursday September 10, 2020 @03:06PM Biden Campaign Firm Hit By Suspected Kremlin Hacking Attack
Monday September 07, 2020 @04:31PM Most Cyber-Security Reports Only Focus On the Cool Threats
Friday September 04, 2020 @05:08PM Trump Administration Issues Directive Aimed At Enhancing Cybersecurity In Space
Monday August 17, 2020 @04:49PM Safest Voting Method Is Using Paper, Leading Cyber Expert Says
Friday July 17, 2020 @12:24AM Iranian Spies Accidentally Leaked Videos of Themselves Hacking
Friday May 29, 2020 @09:10PM DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State
Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:40PM Hackers Target WHO By Posing As Think Tank, Broadcaster
Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:23PM 'League' of Cybersecurity Professionals Band Together To Help Hospitals Fight Off Hackers
Thursday March 26, 2020 @03:06PM 'League' of Cybersecurity Professionals Band Together To Help Hospitals
Friday March 20, 2020 @08:41PM Locked-Down Lawyers Warned Alexa Is Hearing Confidential Calls
Wednesday March 11, 2020 @04:13PM Federal Report Warns US is Unready For a Cyberattack
Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:04PM Engineer Who Attended RSA Cybersecurity Event Contracts Coronavirus
Tuesday February 18, 2020 @06:31PM Almost Half of Connected Medical Devices Are Vulnerable To Hackers Exploiting BlueKeep
Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:42PM Department of Interior Grounds Its Drones Amid Cybersecurity Concerns
Wednesday January 08, 2020 @06:16PM Unpatched VPN Makes Travelex Latest Victim of 'REvil' Ransomware
Monday January 06, 2020 @04:18PM Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned By Pro-Iran Script Kiddie
Saturday December 28, 2019 @09:11PM $10.7 Billion Broadcom-Symantec Enterprise Deal Creates Software Titan
Monday December 02, 2019 @05:52PM All New Cellphone Users In China Must Now Have Their Face Scanned
Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:03AM IRS Identifies 'Dozens' of New Crypto, Cybercriminals
Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:12PM This Website Has Solved Cybersecurity
Monday October 28, 2019 @07:03PM Microsoft Says Russia-Linked Hackers Target Sports Organizations
Friday October 25, 2019 @02:43PM 'Pwnagotchi' Is the Open Source Handheld That Eats Wi-Fi Handshakes
Tuesday September 17, 2019 @04:53PM Researchers Uncover 125 Vulnerabilities Across 13 Routers and NAS Devices
Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:31AM We Need To Prepare for the Future of War, NSA Official Says
Friday September 06, 2019 @04:45PM Feds Order Apple and Google To Hand Over Names of 10,000+ Users of Gun Scope App
Wednesday August 28, 2019 @05:39PM US Cyberattack Hurt Iran's Ability To Target Oil Tankers, Officials Say
Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:21AM Serious Zoom Security Flaw Could Let Websites Hijack Mac Cameras
Monday July 01, 2019 @07:50PM Senate Passes Cybersecurity Bill To Decrease Grid Digitization, Move Toward Manual Control
Friday June 28, 2019 @12:01PM FDA Warns About Insulin Pump Cybersecurity
Monday June 24, 2019 @02:45PM US Launches Cyber-Attack Aimed At Iranian Rocket and Missile Systems
Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:31PM Lessons From 5 Years of Free Cybersecurity For At-Risk Groups
Friday May 24, 2019 @01:37PM Hackers Breach Company That Makes License Plate Readers for US Government
Friday May 10, 2019 @03:31PM Researchers Are Liberating Thousands of Pages of Forgotten Hacking History From the Government
Monday May 06, 2019 @11:18AM In a First, Israel Responds To Hamas Hackers With an Air Strike
Wednesday April 24, 2019 @01:10PM Hacker Can Monitor Cars And Kill Their Engines After Breaking Into GPS Tracking Apps
Tuesday April 16, 2019 @04:10PM Presidential Candidate John Delaney Wants To Create a Department of Cybersecurity
Friday April 05, 2019 @12:45PM Hacker Group Has Been Hijacking DNS Traffic On D-Link Routers For Three Months [Update]
Friday March 29, 2019 @05:26PM Tesla Cars Keep More Data Than You Think
Tuesday March 05, 2019 @12:24AM Firefox Fears UAE Government's Cybersecurity Company 'DarkMatter' May Be Tied To a Cyber Espionage Program
Monday March 04, 2019 @08:25PM Alphabet's Security Start-Up Wants To Offer History Lessons
Tuesday February 19, 2019 @07:22PM China Has Abandoned a Cybersecurity Truce With the US, Report Says
Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:04PM The Stolen Equifax Data Has Never Been Found, Experts Suspect a Spy Scheme
Monday February 11, 2019 @05:39PM Amy Klobuchar Calls For Net Neutrality 'Guarantee' In 2020 Presidential Announcement
Friday February 08, 2019 @03:03AM Australia Parliamentary Network Hacked In Possible Foreign Government Attack
Monday February 04, 2019 @12:13AM College Student Who Stole More Than $5 Million in Cryptocurrency By SIM Swapping Gets 10 Years in Prison -- First Person To Be Sentenced For the Crime
Friday February 01, 2019 @06:00PM NERC Fines Utilities $10 Million Citing Serious Cyber Risk, But Won't Name Them
Friday January 11, 2019 @07:36AM Mondelez, the US Food Company That Owns Oreo and Cadbury Brands, Sues Zurich in Test For Cyber Hack Insurance
Wednesday January 02, 2019 @04:05PM Hackers Threaten To Dump Insurance Files Related To 9/11 Attacks
Tuesday December 18, 2018 @09:20AM US Ballistic Missile Systems Have No Antivirus, No Data Encryption, and No 2FA, DOD Report Finds
Wednesday December 12, 2018 @05:53PM Ships Infected With Ransomware, USB Malware, Worms
Saturday November 17, 2018 @01:36AM BlackBerry Buys Cybersecurity Firm Cylance For $1.4 Billion
Friday November 16, 2018 @06:21PM Trump Signs Bill That Creates the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Friday November 16, 2018 @08:58AM 'The Internet Needs More Friction'
Monday November 12, 2018 @05:15PM More Than 50 Nations Launch 'Paris Call' To Fix Hate Speech and Cyberattacks; China and Russia Not Among Signatories, Trump Administration Reluctant To Sign
Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:16PM Government Spyware Vendor Left Customer, Victim Data Online for Everyone To See
Tuesday October 23, 2018 @06:33PM Russia Is Behind Cyberattack On Saudi Petrochemical Plant, Researchers Say
Tuesday October 16, 2018 @12:19AM Medtronic Locks Down Vulnerable Pacemaker Programming Kit Due To Cybersecurity Concerns
Friday September 28, 2018 @11:00PM California Becomes First State With an IoT Cybersecurity Law
Tuesday September 18, 2018 @04:35PM Cyber Sleuths Find Traces of Infamous iPhone and Android Spyware 'Pegasus' in 45 Countries
Tuesday September 11, 2018 @05:10PM Trump To Target Foreign Meddling In US Elections With Sanctions Order
Tuesday September 04, 2018 @10:49AM West Virginia Offers Free Cybersecurity Training To the Elderly
Monday September 03, 2018 @12:21AM Germany, Seeking Independence From US, Pushes Cyber Security Research
Tuesday August 21, 2018 @09:46AM Russian Hackers Targeted US Conservative Think-Tanks, Says Microsoft
Sunday August 19, 2018 @02:02PM China Aims To Narrow Cyberwarfare Gap With US
Monday August 13, 2018 @05:42PM FBI Warns of 'Unlimited' ATM Cashout Scheme
Wednesday August 08, 2018 @06:34PM WhatsApp Flaw Could Allow Hackers To Modify, Send Fake Messages
Wednesday August 08, 2018 @11:17AM Cybersecurity's Insidious New Threat: Workforce Stress
Tuesday July 31, 2018 @04:03PM DHS Forms New Cyber Hub To Protect Critical US Infrastructure
Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:09PM Chinese Hackers Targeted IoT During Trump-Putin Summit
Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:45PM Hackers Account For 90 Percent of Login Attempts At Online Retailers
Thursday June 14, 2018 @08:51PM How the World Cup Plays Out Among Hackers
Tuesday May 08, 2018 @04:02PM Equifax's Data Breach By the Numbers: 146 Million Social Security Numbers, 99 Million Addresses, and More
Thursday April 12, 2018 @04:33PM Uber's 2016 Breach Affected More Than 20 Million US Users
Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:28PM McAfee Finds That Gamers Are Strong Candidates for Cybersecurity Jobs
Friday February 09, 2018 @07:03PM Hackers In Equifax Breach Accessed More Personal Information Than Previously Disclosed
Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:55PM Google X Is Launching a Cybersecurity Company Called Chronicle
Friday January 05, 2018 @04:40PM Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook
Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:34PM Democrat Senators Introduce National Data Breach Notification Law
Wednesday November 08, 2017 @05:36PM Federal Prosecutors Charge Man With Hiring Hackers To Sabotage Former Employer
Monday November 06, 2017 @06:20PM Should Private Companies Be Allowed To Hit Back At Hackers?
Friday October 20, 2017 @04:36AM Facebook Security Chief Says Its Corporate Network Is Run 'Like a College Campus'
Tuesday October 10, 2017 @05:40PM Equifax Increases Number of Britons Affected By Data Breach To 700,000
Monday October 02, 2017 @07:19PM North Korea Gets Second Route To Internet Via Russia Link
Monday October 02, 2017 @05:27PM Equifax Says 2.5 Million More Americans May Be Affected By Hack
Friday September 22, 2017 @02:05PM Major Cyber-Attack Will Happen Soon, Warns UK's Security Boss
Monday September 18, 2017 @07:00PM Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed
Friday September 15, 2017 @04:47PM Equifax Says Almost 400,000 Britons Hit In Data Breach
Monday September 11, 2017 @04:48PM Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach
Friday September 08, 2017 @04:26PM Ask Slashdot: What's a Practical Response To the Equifax Breach?
Thursday September 07, 2017 @04:56PM Credit Reporting Firm Equifax Announces 'Cybersecurity Incident Impacting Approximately 143 Million US Consumers'
Thursday September 07, 2017 @01:11PM Software To Capture Votes in Upcoming National Election is Insecure
Wednesday September 06, 2017 @04:03PM Hackers Have Penetrated Energy Grid, Symantec Warns
Tuesday August 22, 2017 @04:20PM Fourth US Navy Collision This Year Raises Suspicion of Cyber-Attacks
Friday August 18, 2017 @04:52PM US Military To Create Separate Unified Cyber Warfare Command
Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:13PM Cyber Threats Prompt Return of Radio For Ship Navigation
Friday August 04, 2017 @06:22PM FBI Tracked 'Fake News' Believed To Be From Russia On Election Day
Thursday August 03, 2017 @02:42PM For 20 Years, This Man Has Survived Entirely By Hacking Online Games
Monday July 31, 2017 @04:00PM FCC Says Its Specific Plan To Stop DDoS Attacks Must Remain Secret
Tuesday July 18, 2017 @05:04PM Should We Ignore the South Carolina Election Hacking Story?
Monday July 17, 2017 @04:19PM US To Create the Independent US Cyber Command, Split Off From NSA
Thursday July 13, 2017 @05:34PM Congress Seeks To Outlaw Cyber Intel Sharing With Russia
Monday July 10, 2017 @05:46PM Trump Proposes Joint 'Cyber Security Unit' With Russia, Then Quickly Backs Away From It
Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:38PM Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears
Monday June 26, 2017 @05:14PM China, Canada Vow Not To Conduct Cyberattacks On Private Sector
Friday June 23, 2017 @09:50PM Obama Authorized a Secret Cyber Operation Against Russia, Says Report
Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:52PM Samsung Left Millions Vulnerable To Hackers Because It Forgot To Renew a Domain
Monday June 05, 2017 @08:28PM DOJ Charges Federal Contractor With Leaking Classified Info To Media
Friday June 02, 2017 @06:39PM CIA Malware Can Switch Clean Files With Malware When You Download Them Via SMB
Thursday June 01, 2017 @05:36PM China's Unprecedented Cyber Law Signals Its Intent To Protect a Precious Commodity: Data
Thursday June 01, 2017 @03:32AM Democrats Ask FBI To Probe Reported FCC Cyberattack
Thursday May 11, 2017 @08:07PM Trump Signs Executive Order On Cybersecurity
Wednesday April 19, 2017 @04:29PM Microsoft's Skype Is Most Used Messaging Service For Cyber Criminals, Study Finds
Monday April 03, 2017 @04:39PM AIG Is Now Selling Cyber Insurance, But Only To High Net Worth Individuals
Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:01AM Work-Life Balance: Cryptographer Fired By BAE Systems For Taking Care of Dying Wife
Friday March 03, 2017 @06:26PM Bill Would Legalize Active Defense Against Hacks
Friday February 17, 2017 @11:01PM Congressman Calls For Probe Into Trump's Unsecured Android Phone
Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:21PM Arby's Probes Possible Data Breach Affecting 355,000 Credit Cards
Friday January 13, 2017 @04:26PM Trump's Cyber Security Advisor Rudy Giuliani Runs Ancient, Utterly Hackable Website
Friday December 30, 2016 @05:04PM How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar
Tuesday December 27, 2016 @09:20PM FDA Releases New Cybersecurity Guidelines For Medical Devices
Wednesday December 21, 2016 @07:11PM Hotbed of Cybercrime Activity Tracked Down To ISP In Region Where Russia Is Invading Ukraine
Tuesday December 20, 2016 @04:49PM Russian Hackers Stole $5 Million Per Day From Advertisers With Bots and Fake Websites
Friday November 18, 2016 @06:58PM Major Cyberlocker EX.UA To Shut Down Amid Police Crackdown
Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:33PM Cybersecurity CEO Gets Fired After Threatening To Kill Trump On Facebook
Monday November 07, 2016 @10:48AM China Adopts Controversial Cybersecurity Law; Experts Say It Will Hurt Businesses
Monday October 31, 2016 @09:09PM Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank
Friday October 21, 2016 @03:51PM Amid Major Internet Outages, Affected Websites Have Lessons To Learn
Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:13PM Czechs Arrest Russian Hacker Wanted By FBI
Wednesday October 12, 2016 @04:39PM Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks
Friday September 30, 2016 @07:12PM New US 'Secret' Clearance Unit Hires Firm Linked To 2014 Hacks
Wednesday September 28, 2016 @05:33PM US Believes Hackers Are Shielded By Russia To Hide Its Role In Cyberintrusions: WSJ
Tuesday September 27, 2016 @07:36PM FBI Investigating Possible Hack of Democratic Party Staffer Cell Phones
Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:48PM Researcher Gets 20 Days In Prison For Hacking State Websites As Political Stunt
Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:09PM White House Names Retired Air Force General As First Cyber Security Chief
Wednesday September 07, 2016 @06:10PM Intel Selling Majority Stake In Intel Security, 'New' Company To Be Called McAfee
Monday September 05, 2016 @06:42PM US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections
Friday September 02, 2016 @12:06AM The Unsettling Relationship Between Russia and Wikileaks
Thursday August 25, 2016 @05:12PM FCC Proposes 5G Cybersecurity Requirements, Asks For Industry Advice
Tuesday August 23, 2016 @06:01PM FBI Authorized Informants To Break The Law 22,800 Times In 4 Years
Thursday August 18, 2016 @06:13PM How The US Will Likely Respond To Shadow Brokers Leak
Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:02PM Cisco Patches 'ExtraBacon' Zero-day Exploit Leaked By NSA Hackers