October 22, 2015 FBI can remotely activate microphones in Android smartphones, source says Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routinely used by computer hackers to gather information on suspects, bringing the criminal wiretap into the cyber age.
October 22, 2015 SIM card flaw opens millions of phones to attack Even though it's one of the simplest components in a cellphone, older SIM cards are still vulnerable to attack, leaving approximately 750 million users one exploit away from being compromised, according to German security researcher Karsten Nohl.
October 22, 2015 Online game servers full of security holes It's bad enough that hackers could compromise multiplayer servers for a number of popular first-person shooters, but it's potentially even worse that they could use the same knowledge to infiltrate the U.S.
October 22, 2015 Some Tumblr accounts appear hacked by infectious worm A number of Tumblr accounts appear to be compromised and are now filled with offensive, spam blog posts. Buzzfeed has screenshots of the mayhem.
October 21, 2015 Health insurer Anthem says database of customer, employee info hacked Anthem, the second-largest health insurance company in America, said late Wednesday that a database containing personal information of approximately 80 million of its customers and employees had been hacked.Â
October 21, 2015 Programmer behind webcam-snooping website replaces site with a job ad The programmer behind a webcam-snooping website that hit the headlines last week for showing live streams from inside people's homes has replaced the site's content with, of all things, a job ad. The post Programmer behind webcam-snooping website replaces content with a job ad appeared first on Digital Trends.
October 21, 2015 Facebook will now alert you if your account is targeted by 'state-sponsored actors' While the chances of nation-state agents breaking into your Facebook account must surely be pretty slim, the social networking giant has nevertheless put in place measures that mean you'll be the first to know should it uncover any such nefarious behavior.
October 21, 2015 Trump hotel chain confirms year-long data hack The Trump hotel chain has confirmed a data security breach involving malware that the company says was on its payment systems for just over a year.
October 21, 2015 How to check if an account was exposed in the Ashley Madison hack Impact Team, the morally inclined Ashley Madison hackers who compromised the personal information of over 36 million users of the extramarital site, lived up to their name and their threat made last month to expose the dirty details of the unfaithful on the dark Web.
October 21, 2015 Venom could pack a deadlier bite than Heartbleed According to a report released by the security firm CrowdStrike, millions of datacenters around the world could be victims of a new vulnerability that affects the software which manages floppy disk controllers on virtual machines.