Poachers are trying to hack animal tracking systems
Animal tracking through electronic tagging has helped researchers gain insight into the lives of many wild animal species, but can also be misused by wildlife poachers, …
Hacker Phineas Fisher arrested in Spain?
Has Phineas Fisher, the person (or group) behind the Gamma International and Hacking Team breaches and data leaks, been caught? According to Catalan news outfit ARA, three …
SWIFT systems of three Indian banks compromised to create fake trade documents
Since last year’s revelation that attackers have compromised SWIFT software of Bangladesh’s central bank and used it to perform fraudulent transfers worth tens of …
Insecure pacemakers can be easily hacked
A group of researchers has discovered that it’s not that difficult for a “weak adversary” with limited resources and capabilities to fiddle with or even shut …
UK Home Secretary signs extradition order for British hacker Lauri Love
The extradition order for British hacker Lauri Love has been signed on Monday by the UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd, and Love has 14 days to appeal the decision. The 31-year-old …
NullCrew member sentenced to 45 months in prison
A Tennessee man has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for launching cyber attacks on corporations, universities and governmental entities throughout the …
US officially accuses Russia of hacking to influence presidential election
With just a month left until the 2016 United States presidential election, the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence officially …
US elections and the hacking of e-voting machines
As the day when US citizens cast a vote for their preferred presidential nominee quickly approaches, the issue of whether the actual voting process can be tampered with is a …
What proposed Rule 41 changes mean for your privacy
Last week, US Senator Ron Wyden took the floor of the Senate to explain why his (and his colleagues’) Stopping Mass Hacking Act should be voted in. The bill, consisting …
Hack a Nexus from afar, get $200,000
Google has issued a challenge to bug hunters around the world: find a vulnerability or bug chain that achieves remote code execution on multiple Android devices knowing only …
Man hacked, blackmailed gold bullion trading firm
25-year-old Adam Penny hacked the systems of an unnamed gold bullion trading firm, and used the stolen information about gold deliveries to intercept them before they are …
Brainjacking: Hacking brain implants
Did you know that Dick Cheney, former US Vice President who held that office from 2001 to 2009, had the wireless telemetry on his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator …