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The US government has regarded WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a dangerous national security threat ever since he and his organization opened a decade-long effort to expose US secrets -- from military files to embarrassing Democratic Party emails d...
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Rui Pinto, the Portuguese hacker linked to the Football Leaks whistleblower website, made his first appearance before a Lisbon judge on Friday.
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One of the world's biggest aluminium producers, Norway's Norsk Hydro, said Tuesday it had been hit by a ransom cyber-attack of unknown origin, with hackers demanding a ransom.
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A hacker linked to the Football Leaks website that has exposed alleged corruption in the sport will be extradited to Portugal from Hungary, his lawyer said Thursday.
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Iranian hackers working to penetrate systems, businesses and governments around the world have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, a report said Wednesday.
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A Budapest court is set to decide on Tuesday on the extradition of a hacker linked to the Football Leaks whistleblower website that has exposed alleged corruption, sparking investigations in several European countries.
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With campaigning for May's European Parliament elections shifting into high gear, security officials are preparing for potential attempts by Russia-linked hackers to sway the vote -- and potentially deepen divisions in the bloc.
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Russia on Tuesday handed long jail terms to a high-ranking security official and a cybersecurity expert after finding them guilty of treason, local news agencies reported.
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Key parts of the internet infrastructure face large-scale attacks that threaten the global system of web traffic, the internet's address keeper warned Friday.
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Canada's electronic eavesdropping agency said Wednesday it is working with Canberra to try to determine the scale of computer hacking on Australia's parliament and political parties just months from an election.
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Australia on Monday said a "sophisticated state actor" had hacked the country's main political parties and parliament, just weeks before a closely fought election.
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Financial analysts Experian have released their annual “Global Identity & Fraud Report”. As well as highlighting concerns, the report indicates that consumers are willing to share more data with companies if this means enhanced security.
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Confidential data of 14,200 people diagnosed with HIV, mostly foreigners, has been stolen and leaked online in Singapore, authorities said Monday, the second massive data breach in the city-state within months.
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A massive trove of leaked data, which was recently posted to a hacking forum, includes some 772,904,991 unique email addresses and 21,222,975 unique passwords. Will LaSala from OneSpan weighs in.
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A Philippine ex-banker was handed a lengthy jail term and $109 million fine Thursday in the first conviction over one of the biggest ever cyberheists which saw $81 million stolen from Bangladesh's central bank.
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German police said Tuesday they have arrested a 20-year-old suspect in the case of private data stolen from hundreds of politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, and published online.
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The US intelligence community launched a campaign Monday to help US business defend against hacking by foreign governments like China and Russia.
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Private data stolen from hundreds of German politicians including Chancellor Angela Merkel have been published online, the government said Friday, in a stunning breach of cybersecurity.
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Private data stolen from hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, have been released online, the government said Friday.
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Hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, have fallen victim to a massive online leak of private data, the government said Friday.
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Being spoof hacked is irritating enough, but to be hacked so that your device is taken over by footage of PewDiePie is arguably even worse. This is what has happened with thousands of Google Home and Chromecast devices.
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Hackers have constricted a fake hand out of wax and used this to show the weaknesses in vein authentication software. The software, which scans the vein patterns in hands and compares them to stored images, is not as robust as security experts thought.
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A new survey finds that thousands of hot tubs can be hacked and controlled remotely . This is due to weak security measures being in place.
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The EU announced an urgent investigation on Wednesday after suspected Chinese military hackers accessed thousands of sensitive diplomatic cables.
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Hackers apparently connected to China accessed thousands of sensitive EU diplomatic cables, the New York Times reported Wednesday, in the latest embarrassing data breach to hit a major international organisation.
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The United States said Wednesday that China was behind the massive hack of data from hotel giant Marriott, part of an ongoing global campaign of cyber-theft run by Beijing.
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The United States said Wednesday that China was behind the massive hack of data from hotel giant Marriott, part of an ongoing global campaign of cyber-theft run by Beijing.
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US investigators believe that Chinese intelligence was behind the massive hack of data on some 500 million guests of hotel giant Marriott, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
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No one is free from hacking, including world governments. In the technological age we live in how can this still happen? Furthermore, what measures are needed to protect businesses, governments and individuals. A leading expert weighs in.
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Each week, it seems, a data breach news item hits the news. What might come as a surprise is that the biggest source of data leaks is not from hackers, but from healthcare providers, mostly due to unsecure systems.
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Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS, AFP/File
LORAN Station Malone, Florida: View of middle section of transmitter banks. Unknown
A still from the film We Are Legion about the Anonymous hacktivists Courtesy Hot Docs
A screen shot of the Twitter account for the US Military Central Command, which was apparently hacked. Screenshot
From the implantable device (pacemaker), data flows to the physician's office, or in the case of an implanted defibrillator, the data can go from the operating room to the physician programmer and on to the patient support network. But all aspects of the system are vulnerable. WhiteScope
Runa Sandvik demonstrates for Wired how a TrackingPoint rifle can be hacked Wired/screenshot
Members of Anonymous protest a Scientology "church" Wired
The logo to represent the hacking community LulzSec LulzSec logo
Three men have pleaded guilty to US charges stemming from the Mirai botnet attacks that shut down parts of the internet last year DAMIEN MEYER, AFP/File
Screen capture of hacked website Screen capture of hacked website
Screenshot from the Mr. Robot TV show Courtesy USA Networks
New Chinese operating system named NeoKylin OS, looks almost exactly like Windows XP. DJC
Heather Mills, the former Mrs McCartney, testifies to the Leveson Inquiry on February 9, 2012.
The CIA can infiltrate network traffic Negative Space / Pexels
Screenshot from the Mr. Robot TV show Courtesy USA Networks
Who watches you surf? Mikey G Ottawa
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