China calls for FBI cooperation in Internet security, counterterrorism
China wants to have deeper Internet security and anti-terrorism cooperation with the United States, China's public security minister told the visiting director of the FBI, the state Xinhua News Agency said. Meeting in Beijing, the minister, Guo Shengkun, told James B. Comey that China was ...
In apparent shift, FBI chief tells Congress that request for iPhone data may be 'precedential'
FBI Director James Comey told a congressional panel on Tuesday that a final court ruling forcing Apple Inc to give the FBI data from an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters would be "potentially precedential" in other cases where the agency ...
Nissan disables Leaf electric car app after cross-continent hack
Nissan Motor Co. has disabled a mobile application for controlling its Leaf electric car after a security researcher demonstrated how hackers could access temperature controls and other functions from across continents. The nation's second-largest automaker made the app unavailable after Australian researcher Troy Hunt demonstrated ...
Even after tens of millions of people had their online accounts hacked, many Internet users still rely on easy-to-guess passwords.
Anonymous hackers harpoon Japanese websites in whaling protest
Three websites stop working as hackers claiming affiliation with the collective Anonymous step up attacks in protest of whale hunting.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department are investigating a claim that personal data related to thousands of DHS and FBI employees was hacked and has been posted online, an agency spokesman said on Monday. The tech website Motherboard reported on Sunday ...
U.S., British spies hacked Israeli Air Force, say reports citing Snowden
The United States and Britain have monitored secret sorties and communications by Israel's air force in a hacking operation dating back to 1998, according to documents attributed to leaks by former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden. Israel voiced disappointment at the disclosures, which were ...
Congress to probe whether NSA back door led to Juniper hacking
A U.S. congressional probe into the impact of a hack of Juniper Networks Inc software will examine the possibility that it was initially altered at the behest of the National Security Agency, a lawmaker said in an interview on Thursday. The House Committee on Oversight ...
Anonymous claims cyberattacks targeting MPD, airport websites
Police say someone purporting to be a member of the international hacker group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the Metropolitan Police Department's website late Wednesday. According to police, the site could not be accessed between 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. The problem ...
South Korea said on Wednesday it suspected North Korea of attempting cyberattacks against targets in the South, following a nuclear test by the North this month that defied United Nations sanctions. South Korea has been on heightened military and cyberalert since the Jan. 6 test, ...
People are understandably worried about the security of the My Number system, and the government has done little to reassure them.
U.S. analysts suspect Russia hackers behind Ukraine power outage
U.S. cyberintelligence firm iSight Partners said on Thursday it has determined that a Russian hacking group known as Sandworm caused last month's unprecedented power outage in Ukraine. "We believe that Sandworm was responsible," iSight's director of espionage analysis, John Hultquist, said. The conclusion was based on ...
