The SEC has announced new rules that will force publicly traded companies to report any cybersecurity incidents within four business days. This will help customers learn of breaches sooner.
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Microsoft had quietly blocked Windows 11 in-place upgrades from Windows 8.1 on the Dev Channel somewhere in the middle of last year. However, some underlying changes made have revived it.
Google One subscribers can now get VPN access on all plans and dark web monitoring reports to see if their information is being illicitly sold on shady forums. The Basic plan starts at $1.99.
The popular Battle Royale game is cracking down on players that hurt the experience for everyone else. If that means kicking up to 100,000 players off the game, then developer Bluehole will do it.
Hilton Worldwide has issued a statement confirming that payment card information of some of its guests has been compromised due to malware attacks on its payment system since last year.
Amid a confrontation with the US over the Sony hacks, North Korea has experienced Internet outages, the cause is not yet known.
Security researchers, developers and hackers tried their luck in exploiting various devices and OS(s) in HP's annual Pwn2Own event. A prize pool of $425,000 was distributed among the winners.
Twitter has sent out a memo to media outlets warning them that more hacks may be coming following the high-profile attack on the Associated Press Twitter account which produced loses of $136 billion.
Oracle's most famous product, Java, has a few more woes to add to its past week after a Polish security firm discovered two more potential weaknesses hackers could use in future attacks.
Microsoft's Security Response Center is reporting that they have succumbed to a recent cybersecurity attack, similar to those experienced by Facebook and Apple, and it's affected a small number of PCs
Unit 61938, a group of Chinese governmental hackers responsible for more than 100 documented attacks since 2006, might have been nailed on the outskirts of the world's biggest city - Shanghai.
The FBI has confirmed the arrest of 10 people over the Butterfly Botnet; a botnet that, peaking at more than 11 million machines infected, harvesting details on bank accounts and passwords.
The RSA has unveiled a product allowing users to split their passwords across two different computer servers for additional security; hackers will need access to two different servers to attack.
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Reuters was hacked on Friday, with an account being hacked and used to spread misinformation about the situation in Syria, and specifically about the Free Syrian Army's movements.
According to several leading lights in cyber security, the United States Department of Defense could be quite poorly prepared for hacks and attacks from different parties.
The PlayStation Vita is scheduled for release in the United States and Europe in just over a week, but that does't mean that the console hasn't already been exploited. However, piracy isn't an option.
The well known hacker group Anonymous has hacked and defaced the Ministry of Defense site for the country of Syria with a message calling for its president to leave.
It would appear that League of Legends, the popular MMO title from Riot Games, has been attacked again. While little information is currently available, it appears that the game has been hacked to offer 'free'...
George Hotz, the software hacker who created jailbreak hacks for the iPhone and was later sued by Sony for hacking into its Playstation 3 console, has a new and legitimate job. According to the Techunwrapped.com...
According to a recent study, 90 percent of United States businesses have fallen victim to some sort of cyber security breach in the last 12 months. The study, conducted by Ponemon Institute for Juniper Networks,...
News has just broken claiming that the leader and mastermind of infamous hacking group LulzSec has been arrested in Wickford, Essex. The suspect in question is a 19-year-old male who was caught as a result...
Lulz Security has had an absolutely blazing day yesterday, hacking not only the United States Senate.gov address but also taking down the Escapist M agazine, Mine craft and EVE Online in a self-proclaimed “Titanic...
The Escapist has become the next victim of attacks perpetrated by hacking group 'LulzSec', after they managed to bring the site down and apparently cause chaos for the system administrators. The group tweeted the following...
A few days after people who are allegedly part of the hacker group Anonymous were arrested in Spain, even more arrests were made in Turkey in relation to that same group. Security Week reports that...
Sony's recent attacks from hacker groups, the most recent of which saw Sony BMG falling victim, have been estimated to cost the company within the region of $1 billion. But while users see the figure...
A few days ago, a hacker group known as "LulzSec" claimed that they would launch a huge attack against Sony. It appears this group was true to their word as they have just released a...
Internet IDs are a scary thing to think about. It sounds a bit like a Big Brother scenario where someone is watching your every move online at any time. All your Google searches, Facebook status...
Right now, there are a lot of angry comments floating around the web in regards to Microsoft's first "major" update for Windows Phone 7. A few different people have come out with methods to get...
Tuesday's update to Windows Vista's PatchGuard, a kernel protection scheme designed to keep malicious or unproven code at arm's length, had nothing to do with recent hacks of another Vista defense, Microsoft said Thursday. The...
The WGA team have finally provided a written response to the reported OEM BIOS Hacks regarding Vista:I know many of you are aware of reports of hacks that attempt to exploit our OEM BIOS based...
According to reports from the Xbox-Scene forums, Microsoft has started shipping Xbox 360 consoles in the UK and Australia regions with an updated Hitachi DVD-ROM drive. The new version of the drive has implemented changes...
Bandai ships its anime-inspired PS2 action game to stores. Since its film debut in 1995, Ghost in the Shell has become one of the classics of Japanese anime. With its sci-fi premise...
