Hackers using luxury hotels in Japan to target execs, software firm says
According to a report by Kaspersky Labs, hackers are using Wi-Fi networks at luxury hotels in Japan and elsewhere to steal sensitive information from business executives and corporate researchers.
Suspected Russian hackers exploit Windows vulnerability to attack targets such as NATO, Ukraine
Hackers, probably Russian, have exploited a bug in Microsoft Windows and other software to spy on computers used by NATO, the European Union, Ukraine and companies in the energy and telecommunications sectors, according to cyber-intelligence firm iSight Partners. ISight said it did not know what ...
A hacker targeted a Russian regional parliament's website on Tuesday with a statement berating authorities in Moscow and declaring the southern Volga region's Astrakhan province was leaving the Russian Federation. Russians largely support President Vladimir Putin's policies and his popularity received a boost after his ...
A person's medical information can be worth 10 times more than a credit card number on the black market. Last month, the FBI warned health care providers to guard against cyberattacks after one of the largest U.S. hospital operators, Community Health Systems Inc., said Chinese ...
Canada has finally ratified a foreign investment protection agreement with China after a two-year delay, a step that may help ease tensions between the two countries and smooth the way for a possible visit to China by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. International Trade Minister Ed ...
Leak clouds Apple's shiny image
Apple Inc. has often displayed uncanny timing with its well-orchestrated end-of-year iPhone releases. But the leak of racy celebrity photos in the past few days put the company in the unusual position of having to mend its image just days before a highly anticipated ...
Nude celebrity hack may be iCloud breach in run-up to new iPhone
Apple Inc.'s iCloud service may have been used to illegally access nude photos of actress Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities, raising security concerns as the company prepares to unveil its newest iPhone. Hackers posted the nude photos on the anonymous image-sharing website 4chan, the Telegraph ...
U.S. undercover investigators are among 25,000 exposed in data breach
A cyberattack on a firm that performs background checks for U.S. government employees has compromised data on at least 25,000 workers, including some undercover investigators, and that number could rise, officials said on Friday. The breach at U.S. Investigations Services (USIS), based in Falls Church, ...
Spy agencies hit in new cyber-espionage campaign: Kaspersky Lab
Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab said they have uncovered a cyber-espionage operation that successfully penetrated two spy agencies and hundreds of government and military targets in Europe and the Middle East since the beginning of this year. The hackers, according to Kaspersky, were likely backed ...
Chinese hackers turned focus to U.S. experts on Iraq: security firm
A sophisticated group of hackers believed to be associated with the Chinese government, who for years targeted U.S experts on Asian geopolitical matters, suddenly began breaching computers of experts on Iraq as the rebellion there escalated, a security firm said Monday. CrowdStrike Inc. said that ...
Microsoft targets cybercrime rings with roots in Kuwait, Algeria
Microsoft Corp. launched what it hopes will be the most successful private effort to date to crack down on cybercrime by moving to disrupt communications channels between hackers and infected PCs. The operation, which began Monday under an order issued by a federal court in ...
Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm, was acquitted Tuesday of orchestrating a campaign to hack into phones and bribe officials in a case that has shaken the British political establishment. A jury at London's Old Bailey court cleared Brooks unanimously ...
