This was another productive (but exhausting) week at the RSA Conference (RSAC) in San Francisco. Interesting topics ranged from the surprising call from Bruce Schneier’s to regulate the Internet of ...
The Equifax hack of 2017 had a massive impact and left many wondering whether their data was actually secure. The numbers involved were simply staggering: 145.5 million US customers had their data ...
A notorious Russian-speaking hacker has breached more than 60 universities and agencies — including Cornell University — and is attempting to sell unauthorized access to the agencies for profit, ...
A hacker involved in an attempt to blackmail Apple with a threat to delete 319 million iCloud accounts and factory reset millions of iPhones and iPads in 2017 has avoided going to prison after a ...
As fellow ZDNet writer Andrada Fiscutean once wrote in the fall of 2017: "Spies hack. But the best spies hack other spies." That story revolved around a Virus Bulletin 2017 talk detailing several ...
A former security adviser at SolarWinds warned the tech company back in 2017 that it was not taking adequate steps to address cybersecurity. News broke earlier this month that SolarWinds Orion ...
A 22-year-old man was sentenced today in London for his involvement in an extortion attempt against Apple, during which the suspect and co-conspirators threatened to mass-hack iCloud accounts and ...
Why are big companies clamoring to get white hat hackers on their team? Because they can think like a malicious hacker, but better – they can outsmart them, too, keeping companies safe from attacks.