More than two dozen U.S. companies, including several big banks, have teamed up to establish shared principles that would allow them to better understand their cyber security ratings and to challenge them if necessary, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said on Tuesday. Large corporations often...
A new round of spam campaigns discovered by security researchers require extra caution by users since simply running the cursor over the malicious link can lead to the installation of malware. The attack, highlighted by cyberintelligence analyst Ruben Dodge, takes advantage of a vulnerability found in...
Two breaches in as many years. Is the trust gone? Alvaro Hoyos, the company's chief information security officer, answered key questions. A week after OneLogin disclosed it had been hacked, the company's security chief has said that thousands of its customers may have been affected --...
Yesterday, a huge outbreak of phishing emails was discovered around 11:30 PT when an unknown organization sent out emails saying that someone from the recipient’s contacts list shared a Google document with them. A Google spokesperson said that the company has disabled the accounts...
The US Energy Department says the electricity system "faces imminent danger" from cyber-attacks, which are growing more frequent and sophisticated, but grid operators say they are already on top of the problem. In the department’s Quadrennial Energy Review, it warned that a widespread power outage caused...
India is dealing with one of the worst data breaches ever to hit the country with as many as 3.2 million debit card details stolen from multiple banks and financial platforms. On Thursday, the Economic Times reported that malware was used to compromise the Hitachi Payment...
People who work in the City of London, the UK capital's financial centre, are being targeted by a specific kind of computer attack that holds digital files to ransom. Cybersecurity company Malwarebytes says that the City of London is a hotbed for ransomware attacks compared...
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced it is retiring the e-Filing PIN system following a new wave of cyber-attacks after crooks previously abused the same system last February. In a statement on the IRS website, the agency says it was planning to eliminate the...
Millions of people throughout the greater Los Angeles area have been left without power, running water or communication in the wake of what is certainly one of the worst disasters in recent American history. Millions of people throughout the greater Los Angeles area...
It’s now time to publish the second timeline of April (Part I here) covering the main cyber-attacks occurred between 16 and 30 April 2016. A fortnight quite reach of interesting events, and characterized by two trends inherited from the first half of the month: the...