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Fast Company hack sends ‘obscene and racist’ alerts to its Apple News followers

Wednesday, September 28, 2022 6:18 pmWednesday, September 28, 20223 Comments

Fast Company said it shut down its website because it was hacked twice this week and “obscene and racist” push notifications were…

Apple and Facebook gave user data to hackers who used forged legal requests

Wednesday, March 30, 2022 4:43 pm4 Comments

Apple and Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, gave user data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials…

Sophisticated cyberattack on U.S. government much worse than first feared

Friday, December 18, 2020 3:18 pm31 Comments

The scale of a sophisticated cyberattack on the U.S. government that was unearthed this week is much bigger than first believed…

U.S. government agencies hit in massive SolarWinds attack by suspected Russian hackers

Monday, December 14, 2020 9:51 am53 Comments

U.S. government agencies were attacked as part of a global campaign that exploited a flaw in the software updates from SolarWinds Corp…

Apple begins offering special ‘dev-fused’ iPhones to security researchers

Wednesday, July 22, 2020 4:10 pm4 Comments

Last year at the Black Hat security conference, Apple’s head of security Ivan Krstic said the company would give trusted researchers a special iPhone …

Why President Trump’s Twitter account wasn’t part of massive hack

Friday, July 17, 2020 12:31 pmFriday, July 17, 20208 Comments

The team’s conclusion: The hack was coming from an account inside the house, yet perhaps the most high-profile Twitter accounts of all, President Trump’s …

Apple’s iOS 14 leaks long before its release

Saturday, May 23, 2020 11:43 am7 Comments

Security researchers and hackers have had access to a leaked early version of iOS 14, the iPhone’s next operating system, since at least February…

Apple officially launches public bug bounty program with rewards up to $1.5 million

Friday, December 20, 2019 2:32 pmFriday, December 20, 2019No Comments

Apple has formally opened its bug bounty program today to all security researchers…

Mac users targetted by Lazarus ‘fileless’ Trojan

Friday, December 6, 2019 1:13 pm4 Comments

The Lazarus hacking group has been caught trying to sneak a new ‘fileless’ Trojan on to Apple macOS computers…

Beware: Legit-looking iPhone Lightning cables that hack you will be mass produced and sold

Monday, September 30, 2019 5:25 pmMonday, September 30, 20195 Comments

Soon it may be easier to get your hands on a cable that looks just like a legitimate Apple lightning cable, but which actually lets you remotely take over a computer…

Beware: These legit-looking iPhone Lightning cables will hijack your computer

Sunday, August 11, 2019 12:25 pmMonday, September 30, 20193 Comments

It looks like an Apple lightning cable. It works like an Apple lightning cable. But it will give an attacker a way to remotely tap into your computer…

Apple offers record bounty, up to $1 million, to researchers who find iOS security flaws; adds macOS to program

Thursday, August 8, 2019 4:45 pm4 Comments

Apple is offering cyber security researchers up to $1 million to detect flaws in iPhones, the largest reward offered by a company…

Apple hands hackers secret iPhones in a bid to boost security; to offer Apple Mac bug bounty

Tuesday, August 6, 2019 9:32 am1 Comment

Later this week, at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Apple is to announce plans to give security researchers special iPhones…

How hackers and scammers break into iCloud-locked iPhones

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 10:39 am3 Comments

In 2013, Apple introduced a security feature designed to make iPhones less valuable targets…

Hackers are targeting critical infrastructure: Nuclear, defense, energy, and financial businesses

Wednesday, December 12, 2018 6:01 pm6 Comments

Hackers are targetting critical infrastructure providers, including nuclear power and defense agencies…

Alleged hacker threatened to sell details of 319 million Apple iCloud users, demanded more than £133,000 in Bitcoin

Thursday, October 18, 2018 1:30 pmThursday, October 18, 20182 Comments

An alleged hacker threatened to sell the personal details of 319 million Apple iCloud users…

Australian teen Apple hacker avoids jail time, sentenced to eight months’ probation

Thursday, September 27, 2018 8:57 am2 Comments

The Australian teenage hacker who pleaded guilty to repeatedly accessing Apple’s mainframe over two years…

Australian teen who hacked Apple to face sentencing next week

Thursday, September 20, 2018 5:32 pmThursday, September 20, 2018No Comments

An Australian teenager who pleaded guilty to hacking Apple Inc. systems carried out…

T-Mobile: Hackers stole personal data of more than 2 million customers

Friday, August 24, 2018 1:33 pm6 Comments

On August 20, T-Mobile’s cyber-security team discovered and shut down an unauthorized access to certain information…

Apple reassures customers after hack by Australian teen, says no customer data was compromised

Friday, August 17, 2018 8:28 amNo Comments

Apple Inc said on Friday no customer data was compromised after Australian media reported a teenager had pleaded guilty to hacking…

Melbourne teen who hacked into Apple’s secure computer network and 90GB of files faces criminal charges

Thursday, August 16, 2018 10:13 am10 Comments

A Melbourne private schoolboy who repeatedly broke into Apple’s secure computer systems…

What is Exactis and how could it have leaked the data of nearly every American?

Thursday, June 28, 2018 5:01 pmThursday, June 28, 201819 Comments

A company you’ve likely never heard of allegedly exposed some of the most personal data…

Exactis leak exposes 340 million personal records: Phone numbers, home addresses and religious beliefs were publicly accessible

Thursday, June 28, 2018 10:13 am7 Comments

Exactis might be fueled by data, but its recent blunder is a warning that any database without firewall protection…

Thousands of hacked websites are infecting visitors with malware

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 12:30 pm6 Comments

Thousands of hacked websites have become unwitting participants in an advanced scheme…

Researchers demonstrate macOS and Safari exploits at Pwn2Own 2018

Thursday, March 15, 2018 10:27 amThursday, March 15, 20182 Comments

The eighteenth annual CanSecWest security conference is underway in downtown…

Hackers are locking and ransoming Macs: How to protect your Mac

Thursday, September 21, 2017 11:01 am10 Comments

If you haven’t made your iCloud password strong and unique, today’s the day…

Equifax’s latest breach is very possibly the worst leak of personal info ever

Friday, September 8, 2017 11:02 amFriday, September 8, 201754 Comments

It’s a sad reality in 2017 that a data breach affecting 143 million people…

Hackers lie in wait after penetrating US and Europe power grid networks

Wednesday, September 6, 2017 3:58 pmWednesday, September 6, 201711 Comments

Nation-sponsored hackers have penetrated the operational networks multiple US and European energy companies…

Pwn2Own hackers uncover macOS and Safari exploits

Thursday, March 16, 2017 10:59 am13 Comments

The seventeenth annual CanSecWest security conference is underway..

Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton should be jailed over deleting 33,000 emails after Congressional subpoena

Monday, October 10, 2016 12:00 pmMonday, October 10, 2016164 Comments

It started with tense smiles, but Sunday’s presidential debate soon descended into talk of serving hard time…

Yahoo confirms data breach of at least 500 million user accounts

Thursday, September 22, 2016 3:25 pmThursday, September 22, 201621 Comments

A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc. has confirmed that a copy of certain user account info…

Yahoo expected to confirm massive data breach, impacting several hundreds of millions of users

Thursday, September 22, 2016 12:01 pmThursday, September 22, 201613 Comments

Yahoo is poised to confirm a massive data breach of its service, according to several sources…

After calling for less security in Apple iPhone case, feckless FBI calls for more security as two state voter databases hacked

Tuesday, August 30, 2016 3:00 pmTuesday, August 30, 201613 Comments

The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases…

Hackers can now steal data by listening to the sound of a hard drive

Friday, August 12, 2016 1:27 pmFriday, August 12, 201629 Comments

Do you think your data is safe because your computer isn’t connected to the internet or a network?

New evidence suggests DNC hackers penetrated deeper than previously thought

Monday, July 25, 2016 5:08 pmMonday, July 25, 2016118 Comments

Julian Assange has threatened to release more Clinton e-mails he claims are so damaging that Clinton will almost certainly be arrested…

Largely undetected Mac malware suggests disgraced HackingTeam has returned

Monday, February 29, 2016 9:49 pm3 Comments

Researchers have uncovered what appears to be newly developed Mac malware from HackingTeam…

Hackers selling stolen Netflix accounts online, check if your account is affected

Friday, December 4, 2015 3:27 pmFriday, December 4, 201511 Comments

A new report by McAfee Labs claims that hackers are selling access to Netflix accounts,,,

Adobe confirms major Flash vulnerability, and the only way to protect yourself is to uninstall Flash

Thursday, October 15, 2015 11:00 am24 Comments

Just one day after Adobe released its monthly security patches for various software including Flash Player…

Hackers release 9.7GB of adultery website Ashley Madison customers’ names, email, street addresses, credit card transactions

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 8:56 amWednesday, August 19, 201528 Comments

The group of hackers that previously stole massive amounts of user data…

Security researchers: Over 5 Billion Android apps open to hacking

Friday, February 27, 2015 10:07 amFriday, February 27, 201511 Comments

Android Apps designed to steal financial data were especially popular…

Russian hackers exploit Microsoft Windows to spy on the West

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 4:56 pmTuesday, October 14, 201418 Comments

The bug the hackers used exists in all modern versions of the Windows operating system…

BadUSB: The unfixable flaw that infects USB devices is now on the loose

Friday, October 3, 2014 9:10 amFriday, October 3, 201417 Comments

USB security architecture would need to be fundamentally redesigned…

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