Hardware maker Seagate is facing a lawsuit mounted by some of its own employees whose personal information has been lost by the firm. The data, including names, addresses and social…
Day: September 13, 2016
Fire drill knocks ING bank's data centre offline
A fire extinguisher test in a bank’s data centre has gone wrong in an “unprecedented” manner, causing its cash machines, online banking operations and website to go offline. For much…
Israeli teenagers held over data flood internet attacks
Two Israeli teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of running a service that allowed paying customers to attack websites. The vDos service the pair are suspected to have run bombarded…
'How I caught my online scammer – and Facebooked his mum'
A cybersecurity researcher living in Austria who was scammed out of $500 (£375) says his money was returned after he tracked down the scammer’s family and contacted them on Facebook.…