Dec 13, 2016 | Data Breaches
NEW YORK — Medical laboratory operator Quest Diagnostics Inc. says a hack of an internet application on its network has exposed the personal health information of about 34,000 people. The Madison, New Jersey-based company says “an unauthorized third party” on...
Dec 13, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
This blog entry is republished here as a training tool – full credit for this article goes to Jame Dupree: Wikileaks reveals email used to hack Podesta Tucked away in the twenty-first day of email releases from a top aide to Hillary Clinton today was the email...
Dec 9, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
This week, the 24-year-old hacker Alonzo Knowles was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty in a case involving the hacking of female celebrities’ online accounts. Knowles didn’t stop at stealing what he found in the hacked accounts. He attempted...
Dec 6, 2016 | Data Breaches
More than 87 Million accounts associated with video-sharing site Dailymotion, one of the biggest video platforms in the world, have been stolen in another “mega-breach”. An unknown hacker has extracted all 87.6 million email addresses and usernames from...
Dec 5, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
Ransomware seems to have maintained its attractiveness among cybercriminals, steadily growing on multiple operating system platforms – including mobile since 2014. Android users have been targeted by various versions of this extorting malware, most frequently by the...
Dec 1, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
In an ‘unprecedented global law enforcement response’ to cybercrime, federal investigators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe have today announced that they have dismantled a sprawling cybercrime machine known as “Avalanche” — a distributed,...
