101,000 US taxpayers affected by automated attack on IRS app
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has revealed more details about an attack it suffered last month, mounted by unknown individuals with the aim to file fraudulent tax …
Info on 20,000 FBI and 9,000 DHS employees leaked following alleged DoJ hack
On Sunday, Motherboard reported that a hacker contacted them and claimed to have hacked into a US Department of Justice (DoJ) computer, exfiltrated 200GB of files, as well as …
Most IT pros have seen potentially embarrassing information about their colleagues
More than three-quarters of IT professionals have seen and kept secret potentially embarrassing information about their colleagues, according to new research conducted by …
Loanbase hacked via WordPress hole, funds stolen
Popular international Bitcoin crowd-lending platform Loanbase has suffered a security breach, and is currently offline. The breach was discovered on Saturday and made public …
T9000 backdoor steals documents, records Skype conversations, victims’ actions
A new backdoor Trojan with spyware capabilities is being used in targeted attacks against organizations based in the United States. It has been dubbed T9000, since it’s …
Reactions to the EU-US Privacy Shield
The European Commission and the United States have agreed on a new framework for transatlantic data flows: the EU-US Privacy Shield. Here are some of the comments Help Net …
EU-US Privacy Shield: New framework for transatlantic data flows
The European Commission and the United States have agreed on a new framework for transatlantic data flows: the EU-US Privacy Shield. The College of Commissioners approved the …
Security and privacy issues plague wearable fitness tracking devices
A new report is describing major security and privacy issues in several leading wearable fitness tracking devices and accompanying mobile applications. The research examined …
Banning encryption is useless when IoT devices can spy on users
For a while now the US intelligence and law enforcement community has been complaining about the rise of end-to-end encryption, and how it will prevent them from tracking …
Hackers claim to have hacked NASA, hijacked one of its drones
AnonSec hackers claim that they have breached a number of NASA’s systems, and they have published a data trove containing video recordings made by the agency’s …
UK activists dumps 2.5 GB of data stolen from US police union
Last Thursday, UK-based researcher and activist Thomas White has made available for download 2.5 GB of data stolen in a recent hack of the computer systems of the Fraternal …
Tails 2.0 fixes many security issues
Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity. Tails 2.0 is …
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