How a researcher hacked his own computer and discovered Meltdown
Daniel Gruss didn't sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel Corp. The 31-year-old information security researcher and post-doctoral fellow at Austria's Graz Technical University ...
Security researchers on Wednesday disclosed a set of security flaws that they said could let hackers steal sensitive information from nearly every modern computing device containing chips from Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and ARM Holdings. One of the bugs is specific to Intel ...
Attacks on South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges reportedly traced to the North
South Korea's spy agency said North Korean hackers were behind attacks on cryptocurrency exchanges this year in which some 7.6 billion won ($7 million) worth of cryptocurrencies was stolen, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Attacks in June included the leaking of personal information from 36,000 ...
Hackers may have stolen the personal data of 80,000 people associated with Osaka University
Osaka University said Wednesday that personal data of around 80,000 students, graduates, staff, former workers and others may have been stolen by hackers. Data pertaining to about 69,000 people — which includes names, identification numbers and email addresses — may have been stolen. In addition, ...
Uber's messy data breach collides with launch of SoftBank deal
Uber, nearing a deal with SoftBank, says it paid hackers destroy data on more than 57 million users stolen from the company but not reported to victims or authorities.
The U.S. government on Tuesday urged businesses to act on an Intel Corp. alert about security flaws in widely used computer chips, and industry researchers scrambled to understand the impact of the newly disclosed vulnerability. The Department of Homeland Security gave the guidance a day ...
Russia carried out cyberattacks on British media, energy, telecom sectors: GCHQ
Russian cyberoperatives have attacked Britain's media as well as its telecommunications and energy sectors over the past year, according to prepared remarks by the head of the government's main cyberdefense agency. In a speech scheduled for Wednesday in London, Ciaran Martin, chief executive of the ...
Trump campaign aide Carter Page met Russian officials in 2016: report
A foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign met Russian government officials last year, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing testimony he gave earlier in the week to a U.S. congressional committee. In numerous media interviews in recent months, the adviser, Carter ...
Trump says he recalls little about meeting where aide spoke of arranging meeting with Putin
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he does not remember much about a meeting last year with a former campaign aide who pleaded guilty last month as part of a federal probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. Asked about a ...
Manafort gave wildly varying estimates of his wealth to banks
When Paul Manafort wanted to borrow money in the past five years he gave lenders wildly varying estimates of his wealth, ranging from $19 million to $136 million, according to special counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller's prosecutors released new personal details Tuesday about Manafort, Donald Trump's ...
Top Trump campaign officials agreed in 2016 to meet Putin representatives, ex-adviser claimed
In an email last summer, former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos claimed that top campaign officials had agreed to a meeting with representatives of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The message, if true, would bolster claims that Trump's campaign attempted to collude with Russian interests. But it is ...
