October 4, 2016 Wiehl: Is the FBI ready to prevent Putin’s Russia from rigging the 2016 election? I’m profoundly disturbed that, according to the FBI, the Russians have used cyber tools to hack into the Democratic National Committee and are continuing to use them to attack other organizations and individuals.
August 30, 2016 Sri Lankan teen hacks president's website to demand exam reschedule It’s no secret that exam schedules can be annoying, but would you write your country’s president to voice your concerns?
August 21, 2016 Top DNC staffer resigns in wake of massive hack Another top official has left the Democratic National Committee in the wake of an email hack last month the revealed embarrassing messages.
August 18, 2016 NSA's website goes down amid hacking fears An almost day-long outage of the National Security Agency’s website has raised further questions as to whether America's most secretive surveillance agency has itself been compromised, days after a shadowy cybergroup claimed to have obtained some of the NSA's most powerful hacking tools.
August 8, 2016 'Mayhem' rules as DARPA's battle of the machines hits Las Vegas A system called "Mayhem" has clinched the $2 million top prize in DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge in a competition to use software that automatically defends networks against attacks.
August 5, 2016 Criminals using Bluetooth to steal credit card info at gas stations, police warn Police in Dallas are warning drivers about a new method criminals are using to steal credit card information at gas pumps.
August 3, 2016 Bitcoin exchange loses more than $60 million in digital heist Likely disconcerting to anyone that trades in the popular cryptocurrency known as Bitcoin, a digital exchange was hit by hackers this week and approximately $65 million in Bitcoin was stolen.
July 5, 2016 HummingBad: Chinese malware infects 10 million Android devices, experts warn Experts at cybersecurity specialist Check Point have issued an APB to all Android device users: the HummingBad malware problem is about to get worse.
June 9, 2016 Hackers may have used malware to grab 33 million Twitter account credentials Hackers are trading tens of millions of Twitter credentials on the darknet, according to LeakedSource, a search engine that trawls leaked records, warning that malware was used to grab the data from users.
June 6, 2016 Hackers hijack Mark Zuckerberg's social media accounts Hackers have targeted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's social media accounts, briefly compromising his LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest accounts.