Dominic Casciani A website blamed for launching more than four million cyber-attacks around the world, including attempts to crash banks in the UK, has been taken down in a major…
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Birmingham hacker admits stealing US military data
A computer hacker has admitted stealing hundreds of user accounts from a US military communications system. Sean Caffrey hacked into the US Department of Defense system in 2014, the National…
Router hacker suspect arrested at Luton Airport
A British man suspected of being behind an attack on Deutsche Telekom routers has been arrested at Luton Airport. The November attack hijacked about 900,000 routers and briefly stopped their…
Webcam blackmail cases have doubled, police say
The suicides of four British men in the last year have been linked to so-called “sextortion”, police say. The number of people reporting webcam blackmails has more than doubled from…
Are you affected by the Three UK data loss? Here’s what to do
The mobile and Internet provider Three UK, which has millions of customers nationally, has confirmed that the personal information of customers have been accessed by hackers in a recent cyber attack. The National…
Tesco Bank says attack cost it £2.5m and hit 9,000 people
Tesco Bank says it has refunded £2.5m to 9,000 customers who had money taken in an attack on their accounts. The number given for the current account customers hit by…