Life The iCloud hackers’ bitcoin ransom looks like a fake Cryptocurrency expert says Turkish Crime Family's claim bogus 10 Apr
Pro Four charged, including Russian agents, for Yahoo hack Hackers targeted Yahoo accounts of officials for intelligence and financial gain, says US government 16 Mar
Pro Hacker cuts a swathe through the Dark Web A hacker connected with Anonymous attacked Freedom Hosting II, causing thousands of dark web sites to go down - as many as 85%, say... 13 Mar
Pro Cisco and Apache issue Zero-Day flaw warnings Cisco's Talos team says Apache Struts vulnerability is being targeted in the wild 10 Mar
Pro Researchers link Middle East attacks to new victim in Europe Kaspersky Labs show links between the massive Shamoon attack in Saudia Arabia and a new attack against European target 7 Mar
Pro Ransomware is booming Trend Micro research confirms trend, but Microsoft’s stepped up patch programme is working 1 Mar
Pro Ransomware ‘support’ chats reveal criminal ruthlessness F-Secure publishes chat transcripts between victims and gang's 'support rep' 28 Feb
Pro UK Police arrest suspect in Deutsche Telecom router hack German prosecutors request detention under European Arrest Warrant of man suspected of building million-router botnet 23 Feb
Pro Line between cyber-crooks and cyber-spies getting blurrier Incidence of crooks that can be government payrolls to increase, says expert 17 Feb
Pro Hackers seek to recruit company insiders Researchers have observed a growing tendency among online black market dealers to recruit company insiders 3 Feb
Life Your favourite VPN app is harvesting your personal information Researchers find 82% of the apps requested to access sensitive data 25 Jan
Pro Terrorists are winning the digital arms race Countries need to work together to craft an online counternarrative, say experts 18 Jan
Pro Slick new Spora ransomware may be the next big thing New crypto-malware boasts strong offline decryption and new payment scheme 12 Jan
Blogs Absence of evidence? Is the cybersecurity community sitting on the fence regarding the election hacking? 6 Jan
Pro Ransomware took in $1bn in 2016 And improved defences may not be enough to stem the tide, warns expert 6 Jan
Pro Dozens arrested in international DDoS-for-hire crackdown Arrests targeted buyers of DDoS-for-hire services, which make a profit by shutting down Internet-connected systems 14 Dec
Pro Ransomware attacks on businesses increased threefold in 2016 One ransomware attack every 40 seconds against businesess 13 Dec
Insights TechBeat: The distributed denial of service scourge While awareness is high, mitigation solutions and their management remain a challenge, writes PAUL HEARNS 12 Dec
Pro IoT a gateway for enterprise hackers The risk from insecure Internet of Things devices is in providing a gateway to enterprise networks 9 Dec
Pro Major cybercrime network dismantled in global takedown Avalanche Network used 500,000 infected computers to launch phishing email attacks 6 Dec
Pro Data-wiping malware strikes Saudi government agencies Several government bodies and vital installations experience the attack from malware known as Shamoon 5 Dec
Pro Russia claims to have foiled cyberattack by foreign spy service Web host used for alleged attack has found no evidence on servers 5 Dec
Pro Will AI usher in a new era of hacking? Future cyberwarfare might be machine versus machine, say experts 28 Nov
Pro A third of cyberattacks result in breach Despite success level of attacks, confidence in defence is high 4 Nov
Pro The secret behind the success of Mirai IoT botnets Public posting of the source code shows it is script-kiddie simple 28 Oct
Pro Recent IoT-based DDoS attack rattles security experts Cyberattack that relied on IoT connected devices was serious, unusual, and historic 26 Oct
Pro Leaky IoT devices help hackers attack ecom sites Millions of IoT devices can be used to attack ecommerce and other web sites 13 Oct
Pro US may use sanctions against Russia for election hacking A Republican lawmaker will propose legislation to go after the country's cyber criminals 11 Oct
Pro Cerber ransomware kills DB connections to access important data Malware tries to terminate common database-related processes, such as for MySQL, Oracle and Microsoft SQL servers 6 Oct
Pro Botnet of hijacked IoT devices delivers massive DDoS attack Attack was so powerful that Akamai threw up its hands 26 Sep
Blogs Beware the celebrity divorce storm! There are security dangers attached to media storms around popular entertainment stories 23 Sep
Pro Receive alerts when your data is leaked Terbium Labs' Matchlight product searches for stolen data circulating on the black market 22 Sep
Pro Data protection must be at the heart of business change, conference hears IDC conference hears about impact of GDPR 21 Sep
Pro NTP reflection attacks hit record high DDoS attacks against misconfigured NTP servers up 276% 15 Sep
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