China hacked private emails of U.S. officials since 2010: NBC
Chinese hackers have been accessing the private emails of top U.S. national security and trade officials since April 2010, according to an NBC News report on Monday, citing a U.S. intelligence official and top secret document. The officials' government email accounts were not vulnerable to ...
Sophisticated cyberattack on U.S. military email allegedly points to Russia
Russia is the leading suspect in a sophisticated cyberattack on the unclassified email network of the U.S. military's Joint Staff that prompted the Pentagon last month to restrict access to portions of that network, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Early reports firmly linked Russia to ...
Senate to mull bill against hacking after recess to boost privacy, not surveillance
Senate leaders reached a deal to advance long-stalled legislation giving companies legal protections for voluntarily sharing information about hacking threats with the U.S. government and each other. Under the deal unveiled Wednesday, the Senate will vote on as many as 21 amendments largely intended to ...
Japanese smartphone carriers offer mixed responses to Android flaw
A recently discovered security flaw affecting some 95 percent of Android mobile devices means users are at risk of being hacked just by receiving a short message with malicious intent. Described as the "worst Android flaw discovered to date," effective solutions to the problem, however, ...
Municipalities are struggling to reorganize their information technology systems to guard against possible data leaks ahead of the government's implementation of a new ID card system in January. Under the My Number system, local governments plan to assign every resident in Japan a number by ...
A veil of secrecy masks stepped-up cyberattacks in Asia, experts say
Once a month, cybersecurity lawyer Paul Haswell gets a call from an Asian company with the same question: We've been hacked. Who do we need to tell? More often than not, his answer is "no one." The client will hang up before Haswell can urge ...
How Sony sanitized films to please China's censors
In a 2013 script for the movie "Pixels," intergalactic aliens blast a hole in one of China's national treasures — the Great Wall. That scene is gone from the final version of the sci-fi comedy, starring Adam Sandler and released by Sony Pictures Entertainment last ...
Ashley Madison cheating website hacking 'may affect Japanese users'
Hackers threatening to release details of people using a cheating website may possess the records of toward two million Japanese users, it has emerged. Hackers identifying themselves as "The Impact Team" said they had obtained the identities, photographs and messages of all of the nearly ...
A pair of veteran cybersecurity researchers have shown they can use the Internet to turn off a car's engine as it drives, sharply escalating the stakes in the debate about the safety of increasingly connected cars and trucks. Former National Security Agency hacker Charlie Miller, ...
China-backed bid to take over tech firm Micron faces tough U.S. security scrutiny
A China-backed bid for chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. would encounter close scrutiny by American national security officials worried about Chinese control of U.S. technology firms. China's Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd. is preparing a bid for Idaho-based Micron that could be announced as early as Wednesday, according ...
U.S. personnel agency chief resigns over massive data breach
The chief of the U.S. federal hiring office resigned on Friday after massive computer hacks at the agency that put the personal data of more than 22 million Americans at risk, including people seeking sensitive security clearances. The White House said Katherine Archuleta stepped down ...
U.S. OPM: Hackers got sensitive data on over 25 million who had background checks
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management said on Thursday that hackers had stolen sensitive information — including Social Security numbers — of about 21.5 million people who have undergone background checks for security clearances since 2000. Those exposed included 19.7 million people who applied for ...
