Indian officials in charge of a controversial biometric identity scheme have filed a police complaint after a report that citizens’ personal details were being sold for as little as 500…
Day: January 5, 2018
If 2017 could be described as 'cyber-geddon', what will 2018 bring?
By Gordon Corera Scenarios once the province of thriller writers are now anything but fiction in the world of cyber-security. That is the lesson of the past year. It’s a…
US Homeland Security breach compromised personal info of 200,000+ staff
DHS ‘fesses up 8 months after finding ex-staffer had copy of investigations database By Rebecca Hill More than 240,000 current and former employees of the US Department of Homeland Security…
Meltdown and Spectre: How chip hacks work
By Chris Baraniuk & Mark Ward As technology companies race to fix two major vulnerabilities found in computer chips, the ways in which those chips could theoretically be targeted by…