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DDoS attacks double as criminals leverage home routers, WordPress plugins
The number of distributed denial-of-service attacks in the second quarter of this year was more than double that of last year, according to a …
European Central Bank hacked
The European Central Bank (the ECB) announced on Thursday the 24th of July that its website was the victim of a cyber-attack resulting in …
Firefox blocks Flash, and Facebook calls for its death
Adobe Flash, the much-loathed, bug-plagued relic of a browser plugin, just got a big nail driven into its coffin. Mozilla blocked Flash by default …
US personnel agency takes system offline after security flaw detected
Problems for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management aren’t letting up. The government agency said Monday it had suspended a system used for background …
Adult dating site hack exposes sexual secrets of millions
More than 3.5 million people’s sexual preferences, fetishes and secrets have been exposed after dating site Adult FriendFinder was hacked. Adult FriendFinder asks customers …
Hacked advertising platform sent users to exploit kit
A suspected malicious advertising attack turned out to be a much deeper compromise of an online advertising company, according to Trend Micro. The security …
Online Extortionists Are Using Encryption as a Ransom Weapon
Most of the time we discuss encryption as a way to protect ourselves online , but an increasingly popular form of digital attack uses …
Anti-censorship group in China faces DDoS attack
An activist group working to end China’s Internet censorship is facing an ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that threatens to cripples its …
Gemalto investigates claims that gov’t spies hacked SIM card encryption keys
SIM card maker Gemalto has responded to claims made in recent Snowden leaks that government spies hacked encryption keys it used to protect cell …
Bitcoin Exchange Bitstamp Hacked
On January 5, 2015, the leading bitcoin exchange Bitstamp announced that one of its operational wallets had been breached. “As a security precaution against …
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