Laptops October 21, 2015 NBC News takes heat over Sochi phone hacking report NBC News reports that electronics taken to the Sochi Olympics can be instantly hacked – a claim security experts are calling “misleading” and “fraudulent.”
Hackers October 21, 2015 Southern California school board votes to punish student hackers A Southern California school board voted after a lengthy late-night session to punish 11 students accused of hacking into computers at a wealthy public high school to access tests and change grades.
Security October 21, 2015 Google, Yahoo hacked by US government The National Security Agency has broken into the highly secure data centers where Google and Yahoo store vast troves of data on their users by hacking an unencrypted weak point in the data pipeline linking the enormous centers, according to a new report.
Hackers October 21, 2015 As Obama calls out Chinese cyber-attackers, Silicon Valley leads charge against hackers Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk cyber-security this week in California, but experts say the state's Silicon Valley and its signature high-tech firms should provide the front lines in the increasingly aggressive fight against overseas hackers.
Security October 21, 2015 Almost all websites vulnerable to hackers, experts say If you've ever been hacked, exploited or compromised online, then you already know that the Web is not a very safe place.
Twitter October 21, 2015 Burger King's Twitter account hacked, posts obscenities Somebody hacked Burger King's Twitter account on Monday, posting obscene messages and changing its profile picture to a McDonald's logo.
Security October 21, 2015 Taylor Swift 'sex tape' is Facebook scam She's young, she's pretty, she's got a squeaky-clean public image — Taylor Swift is the perfect subject for a Facebook scam.
Hackers October 21, 2015 'Red October' cyberspies sucked data from governments worldwide, researchers say A sophisticated spy network has been sucking data from governments, embassies, and aerospace and research institutions around the world, researchers say -- and the five-year-old campaign is still actively siphoning info from the U.S. and Western Europe.
Hackers October 21, 2015 Should you give up e-mail? The cyberattacks never stop. The White House recently acknowledged that one of its own networks was the target of hackers and very nearly breached. Is e-mail the problem?
Hackers October 21, 2015 'Rogue' MLB employee coats Facebook with insanity No, Derek Jeter isn’t getting “sexual reassignment surgery.” A single ‘rogue’ MLB staffer posted several wild and crazy comments to Faceook Thursday -- a stunt never intended to go public.
Security October 15, 2015 3 ways to spot a malicious website One of a hacker's favorite tools for stealing your information is the phishing scam. Whether it's through email, texts or on social media, sooner or later you will run into messages that try to trick you into clicking on links to malicious websites.