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Businesses and other services dependent upon security solutions have been urged to upgrade their security cameras due to risks that such cameras can be hacked. A big risk arises from malware which leads to leakage of sensitive information.
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By AFP
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Google said Tuesday it would offer stronger online security for "high risk" users who may be frequent targets of online attacks.
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Belgian researchers have discovered a flaw in a widely used system for securing Wi-Fi communications that could allow hackers to read information that was previously understood to be encrypted, or infect websites with malware, they said on Monday.
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By AFP
Seoul -
North Korean computer hackers have stolen hundreds of classified military documents from South Korea including detailed wartime operational plans involving its US ally, a report said Tuesday.
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By AFP
Seoul -
A state-owned Russian company has opened up a second internet connection for North Korea which could strengthen Pyongyang's cyber capabilities and undermine US efforts to isolate the regime, security experts said.
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By AFP
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Police investigations have pointed to North Korea as responsible for recent attempts to hack South Korea's virtual currency exchanges, a report said Wednesday.
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By AFP
Seoul -
North Korea is suspected of intensifying cyber-attacks to steal virtual currency in order to obtain funds and avert tightening sanctions, according to security experts.
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By AFP
Washington -
It could be the worst-ever data breach for American consumers, exposing some of the most sensitive data for a vast number of US households.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
A major American credit reporting agency entrusted to safeguard personal financial information said Thursday hackers looted its system in a colossal breach that could affect nearly half the US population as well as people in Britain and Canada.
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By AFP
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A major cyberattack targets European Union military structures, with hackers using social media and "fake news" to spread confusion, and governments are left scrambling to respond as the crisis escalates.
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By AFP
Moscow -
A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced two members of an infamous hacking group to three years in jail for breaking into the accounts of high-ranking Russian officials.
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By AFP
Washington -
The FBI has charged a Chinese national with using malicious software widely linked to a devastating hack of government databases that saw the personal information of millions of federal workers and contractors stolen.
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By AFP
Milwaukee -
A lawyer for a 23-year-old British computer security researcher accused of creating malware to attack the banking system on Monday called him a "hero" and predicted he would be "fully vindicated.
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By AFP
Mumbai -
Four people have been arrested in India for leaking an episode from HBO's "Game of Thrones" television series before it was aired in the country, police said Monday.
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South Korea, the U.K., U.S., and Russia are dusting off WWII eloran radio technology for use as a backup system for ship navigation because GPS systems are increasingly being jammed by hackers.
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Last year, investors put $3.5 billion into cybersecurity companies via more than 400 deals, according to CB Insights. And those numbers may well go up this year — the first quarter of 2017 set a five-year record for deals in the private security space.
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By AFP
Berlin -
A British man was handed a suspended jail sentence by a German court Friday for a massive cyber attack against Deutsche Telekom last year.
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By AFP
Den Haag -
Global ransomware attacks soared by over 11 percent in the 12 months to March, Europol reported Tuesday, but specialist tools developed with its partners had helped unlock some 28,000 encrypted devices.
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By AFP
Washington -
Firms operating nuclear power plants and other energy facilities in the US have been hacked in recent months, the New York Times reported.It quoted what it called an urgent report issued in late June by the Department of Homeland Security.
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One of the largest bitcoin exchanges in the world has been hacked, and 30,000 customers' data has been compromised, according to a report from Yonhap News.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
A global wave of cyberattacks exploited an already patched vulnerability in Windows software and appeared to have Ukraine as a primary target, according to computer security specialists.
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By AFP
Kiev -
Several multinational companies said Tuesday they were targeted in a massive wave of cyberattacks which started in Russia and Ukraine before spreading to western Europe.
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By AFP
Paris -
Several major companies said Tuesday they were targeted in an international cyberattack which started in Russia and Ukraine before spreading to western Europe.
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By AFP
Moscow -
Russian state oil giant Rosneft said Tuesday that its servers had suffered a "powerful" cyberattack, but insisted that production had not been hit."A powerful hacking attack has been carried out against the company's servers," Rosneft said on Twitter.
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By AFP
Washington -
The CIA had top-level intelligence last August that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered an operation to help Donald Trump win the US presidential race, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
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By AFP
Doha -
Qatar on Tuesday accused "neighbouring countries", which have cut ties with it, of being behind the alleged cyber attack on Doha's state media which set into motion the current diplomatic crisis.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Canada's electronic eavesdropping agency warned Friday that hackers and foreign states may try to sway its elections in 2019, after so-called hacktivists tried but failed to influence the 2015 ballot that brought Justin Trudeau's Liberals to power.
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The best way to protect sensitive systems from hackers is to use a cryptographic key. For this lock to work it needs to use numbers chosen at random without any structure. This is difficult but a new system is at hand.
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By AFP
Bejing -
Chinese authorities say they have uncovered a massive underground operation involving the sale of Apple users' personal data.
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By AFP
Doha -
Qatari investigators have said that a cyber attack which saw the publication of explosive fake news last month that helped trigger a crisis with Gulf neighbours was prepared in April.
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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
Screen capture of hacked website Screen capture of hacked website
Screenshot from the Mr. Robot TV show Courtesy USA Networks
Runa Sandvik demonstrates for Wired how a TrackingPoint rifle can be hacked Wired/screenshot
The CIA can infiltrate network traffic Negative Space / Pexels
The logo to represent the hacking community LulzSec LulzSec logo
Heather Mills, the former Mrs McCartney, testifies to the Leveson Inquiry on February 9, 2012.
New Chinese operating system named NeoKylin OS, looks almost exactly like Windows XP. DJC
A screen shot of the Twitter account for the US Military Central Command, which was apparently hacked. Screenshot
Members of Anonymous protest a Scientology "church" Wired
Who watches you surf? Mikey G Ottawa
Screenshot from the Mr. Robot TV show Courtesy USA Networks
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
Online hackers have taken credit for an online service outage of Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox game consoles on December 25, 2014 Stephane de Sakutin, AFP/File
A still from the film We Are Legion about the Anonymous hacktivists Courtesy Hot Docs
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