Tag: hacking

December 29, 2022

Hacking can be a dirty word. It evokes images of a person sitting in the dark with a black hoodie on, hunched over a keyboard, in front of multiple screens, attacking an innocent business, or individuals, online. It automatically generates […]

February 3, 2020

Employees are bringing their own Internet of Things connected devices to the workplace and could be putting organisations at risk from cyber attacks because enterprise security teams aren’t always aware that these devices are connected to the network. People are […]

March 17, 2017

When governments turn to private hackers to carry out state-sponsored attacks, as the FBI alleges Russia did in the 2014 breach of Yahoo, they’re taking a big risk. On the one hand, it gives them a bit of plausible deniability […]

March 16, 2017

Wednesday’s indictments in the United States of four people in a 2014 cyber attack on Yahoo Inc. provides the clearest details yet on what some U.S. officials say is a symbiotic relationship between Moscow’s security services and private Russian hackers. […]

March 10, 2017

WikiLeaks plans to share details about what it says are CIA hacking tools with the tech companies so that software fixes can be developed. But will software companies want it? The information WikiLeaks plans to share comes from 8,700-plus documents […]

March 9, 2017

WikiLeaks has attracted plenty of haters over its controversial disclosures. But the site may be in a unique position to help tech vendors better secure their products. That’s because WikiLeaks has published secret hacking tools allegedly taken from the CIA, […]