As many as 82,649 cases of cyberattacks were reported in 2016. These vary from computer fraud, espionage and other similar cyberattacks. The figure is almost 80 percent more than what the state had reported in 2015.
German Interior Minister Thomas...
Workplace chat platform HipChat has become the newest victim of cyberattack. The Atlassian company announced the news on the weekend. According to the reports, the attack was due to a vulnerability in a third-party library used by HipChat.com
The attack...
The cyber authority of China has released a draft that mandates every firm that exports to undergo an annual security assessment. The step is undertaken to safeguard data from different types of cyber threats and even cyber terrorism.
According to...
Security researcher Symantec has linked scores of cyberattacks around the world to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. This comes after web publisher Wikileaks exposing the advanced hacking tools used by the US federal agency.
That means the attacks were likely...
Cyberattacks are often hush. Off the radar, and often off all possible records. But that wasn’t the case in Dallas. The hack was loud, really loud.
Thanks to a hacker! All 156 emergency sirens screamed for 90 whole minutes, and...
What would you do to if you have something that’s precious and important, and want to make sure it remains safe? If you were a squirrel, you’d think of digging a hole and hiding it. Ironically, that’s what even...
This is the second time this year, where a security measure for safety has given an access card for cybercriminals. The first one was with WhatsApp and Telegram, where encryption, designed to spruce security potentially enabled hackers to slip-through...
According to Dutch news agency ANP, the Dutch parliament's website was briefly hit by a so-called 'ransomware' attack.
The form of attack in which hackers scramble a computer system and seek a ransom to unscramble it came amid concerns that...
The U.S. non-profit group that conducts extensive reviews of cars, kitchen appliances and other goods, Consumer Reports, is gearing up to start considering cybersecurity and privacy safeguards when scoring products.
The group, which issues scores that rank products it reviews,...
