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,...
Dec 1, 2016 | Cyber-Crime
A new variant of a well-known malware program called ‘Googlian’ has infected more than one million accounts via phones that run older versions of Google’s Android operating system, mostly outside the U.S., according to security firm Check Point. The...
