Tara Seals Nearly 2 billion files containing the personal data of US citizens were leaked last year—and that number could be significantly underreported. In 2017, a total of 551 breaches…
Month: February 2018
Russians behind bars in US after nicking $300m+ in credit-card hacks
Pair partly responsible for largest bank-card theft ring in American history Two Russian criminals have been sent down in America after pleading guilty to helping run the largest credit-card hacking…
UK blames Russia for 'malicious' NotPetya cyber-attack
The Russian military was directly behind a “malicious” cyber-attack on Ukraine last summer that spread across Europe, British ministers have said. The UK government has taken the unusual step of…
Microsoft Vulnerabilities Accelerate in 2017
Tara Seals Microsoft vulnerabilities have more than doubled in the last five years, rising to 685 from 325 in 2013 – an 111% increase. This has not been at a…
Coinhive Crypto-Miner Now Affecting a Quarter of the World's Organizations
Tara Seals Crypto-mining malware has continued to grow globally, with 23% of organizations worldwide affected by the Coinhive variant during January. That’s according to Check Point’s Global Threat Impact Index,…
Search tool accesses firms' documents in the cloud
A website created by anonymous hackers has been launched that allows anyone to search for sensitive data stored in the cloud. Buckhacker is a tool that trawls servers at Amazon…