May 5, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
Reuters has revealed in a recent article that US security company Hold Security has obtained from a hacker nicknamed ‘the collector’ a list of 272 millions email addresses and passwords, mainly from Gmail and mail.ru, Yahoo! and Microsoft. Reuters spoke...
May 2, 2016 | ESET Protection Products + News, Malware and Exploits
“The USB Thief is, in many aspects different from the more common malware types that we’re used to seeing flooding the internet,” Mr. Gardoň notes. “This one uses only USB devices for propagation, and it does not leave any evidence on the compromised computer. Its...
May 2, 2016 | General Security
The US Supreme Court has just amended a procedural rule, known as Rule 41, that would allow judges to issue warrants for the government to hack computers anywhere, even outside their jurisdictions or if those computers belong to innocent victims of criminal hacking....
May 1, 2016 | General Security
Oracle, the maker of the Java computer programming language has asked ESET is publishing this information. The reason Oracle made the request because it was ordered to do so by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). That’s correct, the US government can (and has)...
Apr 25, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
(Reuters) The cyber-attackers who stole approximate $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank probably hacked into software from the SWIFT financial platform that is at the heart of the global financial system, said security researchers at British defense...
