An American man has been charged with allegedly spying on thousands of people via their computers for more than a decade. The US Department of Justice accused Philip Durachinsky of…
Month: January 2018
Aadhaar: 'Leak' in world's biggest database worries Indians
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…
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…