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Comcast resets nearly 200,000 passwords after customer list goes on sale
Over the weekend, a reader (@flanvel) directed Salted Hash to a post on a Dark Web marketplace selling a number of questionable, if not …
4 new cybercrime trends threaten your business
The more things change, the more things stay the same — at least for hackers. That’s one of the finding in Proofpoint’s mid-year threat …
SEC charges 32 in press release hacking, stock trading scheme
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged 32 defendants with fraud in an international scheme that used stolen, yet-to-be-published press releases from hacked …
DDoS Attacks Take Down RBS, Ulster Bank, and Natwest Online Systems
The Royal Bank of Scotland group of banks suffered nearly a fifty minute outage to their on-line banking systems today as a result of …
Cyberattack on Penn State exposes passwords of 18K people
Pennsylvania State University’s College of Engineering revealed Friday that it has been the target of two “highly sophisticated” cyberattacks over the last two years. …
New smoking gun further ties NSA to omnipotent “Equation Group” hackers
Researchers from Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab have uncovered more evidence tying the US National Security Agency to a nearly omnipotent group of hackers who operated …
Researchers investigate link between Axiom spy group, Anthem breach
When news of the Anthem breach first surfaced, investigators claimed that malicious tools, linked exclusively to Chinese cyber attackers, were used against the health …
Meet Babar, a New Malware Almost Certainly Created by France
The NSA, GCHQ, and their allies in the Five Eyes are not the only government agencies using malware for surveillance. French intelligence is almost …
Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program
The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and …
Cyberspying tool could have US, British origins
A sophisticated cybersespionage tool has been stealing information from governments and businesses since 2008, researchers said Monday, and one report linked it to US …
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