Slashdot Items Tagged "security"

Date / Time Story
Sunday September 11, 2016 @05:27PM US Goverment Employees Targetted By New 'GovRAT' Malware
Sunday September 11, 2016 @07:55AM IoT Devices With Default Telnet Passwords Used As Botnet
Saturday September 10, 2016 @09:08PM Alleged Proprietors of 'DDOS For Hire' Service vDOS Arrested
Saturday September 10, 2016 @08:28PM Malware Infects 70% of Seagate Central NAS Drives, Earns $86,400
Saturday September 10, 2016 @07:39PM Arrests Made After Group Hacks CIA Director's AOL Account
Saturday September 10, 2016 @06:04PM Over 70% of Seagate Central NAS Hard-Drives Infected with Malware
Friday September 09, 2016 @05:19PM General Motors Recalls 4.3 Million Vehicles Over a Software Bug
Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:48PM Researcher Gets 20 Days In Prison For Hacking State Websites As Political Stunt
Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:09PM White House Names Retired Air Force General As First Cyber Security Chief
Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:50PM Israeli DDoS Provider 'vDOS' Earned $600,000 In Two Years
Wednesday September 07, 2016 @08:25PM Leaked Demo Video Shows How Government Spyware Infects a Computer
Wednesday September 07, 2016 @06:10PM Intel Selling Majority Stake In Intel Security, 'New' Company To Be Called McAfee
Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:48PM Modified USB Ethernet Adapter Can Steal Windows and Mac Credentials
Wednesday September 07, 2016 @11:55AM Google Rebuilt the Android Media Stack To Prevent Another Stagefright
Wednesday September 07, 2016 @11:08AM Million More Devices Sharing Known Private Keys For HTTPS, SSH Admin
Tuesday September 06, 2016 @06:19PM Pokemon-Themed Umbreon Rootkit Targets Linux Systems On ARM and x86
Tuesday September 06, 2016 @05:23PM New Snowden Leaks Reveal More About NSA Satellite Eavesdropping
Tuesday September 06, 2016 @05:04PM Yelp Launches Public Bug Bounty Program
Tuesday September 06, 2016 @11:04AM More Passwords, Please: 98 Million Leaked From 2012 Breach Of 'Russia's Yahoo'
Tuesday September 06, 2016 @01:43AM 'Catastrophic' DDoS Attack Hits Linode Servers Over Labor Day Weekend
Monday September 05, 2016 @07:05PM "Catastrophic" DDoS Attack Hits Linode Over The Weekend - Data Breach Again?
Monday September 05, 2016 @06:42PM US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections
Monday September 05, 2016 @03:49PM President Obama Wants To Prevent a Cyber Weapon 'Arms Race'
Monday September 05, 2016 @01:32PM Microsoft Helps Develop Smart, IoT-Enabled Refrigerators
Monday September 05, 2016 @10:01AM Brazzers Porn Site's Forum Hacked, Exposes Data Of 800,000 Users
Sunday September 04, 2016 @11:43PM Whither Tor? Building the Next Generation of Anonymity Tools
Sunday September 04, 2016 @06:40PM Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors
Sunday September 04, 2016 @02:19PM John McAfee Sues Intel To Use His Own Name
Sunday September 04, 2016 @02:16PM John McAfee Tried to Trick Reporters Into Thinking He Hacked WhatsApp
Sunday September 04, 2016 @05:12AM FTC Warns Consumers: Don't Sync To Your Rental Car!
Saturday September 03, 2016 @03:22AM Penetration-Testing Distro Kali Linux 2016.2 Released
Friday September 02, 2016 @06:23PM Hackers Combine Three Botnets to Launch Massive DDoS Attack
Friday September 02, 2016 @05:13PM Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower
Friday September 02, 2016 @04:14PM Police Seize Two 'Perfect Privacy' VPN Servers
Friday September 02, 2016 @03:42PM Google Chrome Begins Warns Users About Insecure Pages
Friday September 02, 2016 @02:51PM FBI Releases Hillary Clinton Email Report
Friday September 02, 2016 @12:40AM Lawsuit Accuses Warriors' Mobile App of Eavesdropping On Fans -- Even When Not In Use
Friday September 02, 2016 @12:06AM The Unsettling Relationship Between Russia and Wikileaks
Thursday September 01, 2016 @05:47PM OpenBSD 6.0 Released
Thursday September 01, 2016 @05:29PM Niantic Responds To Senate Inquiry Into Pokemon Go Privacy
Thursday September 01, 2016 @04:49PM New Cloud Attack Takes Full Control of Virtual Machines With Little Effort
Thursday September 01, 2016 @04:01PM Microsoft Deprecating 'Obsolete' SmartScreen Spam Filters In Outlook and Exchange
Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:46AM Hackers Stole Over 43 Million Last.fm Accounts In 2012 Breach
Thursday September 01, 2016 @08:37AM Data of 43 Million Users Stolen in 2012 Last.fm Data Breach
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @08:49PM Staff Breach At OneLogin Exposes Password Storage Feature
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @07:36PM One of Europe's Biggest Companies Loses 40 Million Euros In Online Scam
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @05:22PM Half Of People Click Anything Sent To Them
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @02:47PM After Breaches At Other Services, Spotify Is Resetting Users' Passwords
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @11:35AM SWIFT Discloses More Cyber Thefts, Pressures Banks On Security
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @11:29AM Hackers Stole Account Details for Over 60 Million Dropbox Users
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @11:10AM Transmission Malware On Mac, Strike 2
Tuesday August 30, 2016 @05:34PM FBI Director Says Prolific Default Encryption Hurting Government Spying Efforts
Tuesday August 30, 2016 @04:53PM Google Login Bug Allows Credential Theft
Monday August 29, 2016 @01:58PM FBI Says Foreign Hackers Breached State Election Systems
Monday August 29, 2016 @11:01AM Tens of Thousands of Infowars Accounts Hacked
Monday August 29, 2016 @10:34AM Cyber Security Should Be Expanded To Departments Other Than IT: CII-KPMG
Monday August 29, 2016 @10:23AM Opera Sync Users May Have Been Compromised In Server Breach
Sunday August 28, 2016 @08:31PM How Security Experts Are Protecting Their Own Data
Sunday August 28, 2016 @01:25AM New Ransomware Poses As A Windows Update
Saturday August 27, 2016 @06:47PM Apple Fixes Three Zero Days Used In Targeted Attack
Saturday August 27, 2016 @02:06PM New SWEET32 Crypto Attacks Speed Up Deprecation of 3DES, Blowfish
Saturday August 27, 2016 @01:34PM Japanese Government Plans Cyber Attack Institute
Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:39AM Cybercriminals Select Insiders To Attack Telecom Providers
Saturday August 27, 2016 @03:11AM Eavesdropping On Tinder: Researcher Demonstrates Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Friday August 26, 2016 @04:18PM British Companies Are Selling Advanced Spy Tech To Authoritarian Regimes
Friday August 26, 2016 @10:32AM Dropbox Is Urging Users To Reset Their Passwords
Thursday August 25, 2016 @07:41PM The Big Short: Security Flaws Fuel Bet Against St. Jude
Thursday August 25, 2016 @06:47PM Apple Patenting a Way To Collect Fingerprints, Photos of Thieves
Thursday August 25, 2016 @05:34PM PSA: PlayStation Network Gets Two-Step Verification
Thursday August 25, 2016 @05:12PM FCC Proposes 5G Cybersecurity Requirements, Asks For Industry Advice
Thursday August 25, 2016 @04:12PM Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals To Unlock Their Wi-Fi
Thursday August 25, 2016 @02:13PM Malware Sold To Governments Helped Them Spy on iPhones
Wednesday August 24, 2016 @11:37AM Over 25 Million Accounts Stolen After Mail.ru Forums Hacked
Wednesday August 24, 2016 @11:19AM NASA's Outsourced Computer People Are Even Worse Than You Might Expect
Tuesday August 23, 2016 @06:01PM FBI Authorized Informants To Break The Law 22,800 Times In 4 Years
Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:13PM Ashley Madison Security Protocols Violated Canada, Austrialia Privacy Laws
Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:06AM Epic Games Forums Hacked, Again
Monday August 22, 2016 @07:06PM BHU's 'Tiger Will Power' Wi-Fi Router May Be The Most Insecure Router Ever Made
Monday August 22, 2016 @06:20PM Turkish Journalist Jailed For Terrorism Was Framed, Forensic Report Shows
Monday August 22, 2016 @06:19PM This Chinese Router Is Depressingly Insecure and Downright Evil
Monday August 22, 2016 @05:34PM Researchers Discover Why We Ignore PC Security Warnings
Monday August 22, 2016 @04:34PM FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server
Sunday August 21, 2016 @06:35PM Software Exploits Aren't Needed To Hack Most Organizations
Sunday August 21, 2016 @02:50PM Will Internet Voting Endanger The Secret Ballot?
Sunday August 21, 2016 @02:11PM German Minister Wants Facial Recognition Software At Airports and Train Stations
Saturday August 20, 2016 @08:50PM New Linux Trojan Is A DDoS Tool, a Bitcoin Miner, and Web Ransomware
Saturday August 20, 2016 @06:00PM How SSL/TLS Encryption Hides Malware
Saturday August 20, 2016 @05:24PM Has WikiLeaks Morphed Into A Malware Hub?
Saturday August 20, 2016 @01:26AM Computer Science Professor Mocks The NSA's Buggy Code
Friday August 19, 2016 @05:28PM Computer Science Professor Gives Failing Grade to Newly Leaked NSA Hacking Tool
Friday August 19, 2016 @12:45PM Malware Infected All Eddie Bauer Stores In US, Canada
Friday August 19, 2016 @09:47AM The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm
Friday August 19, 2016 @06:27AM Password Strength Meters on Websites Are Doing a Terrible Job
Thursday August 18, 2016 @06:31PM 'Smart' Electrical Socket Leaks Your Email Address, Can Launch DDoS Attacks
Thursday August 18, 2016 @06:13PM How The US Will Likely Respond To Shadow Brokers Leak
Thursday August 18, 2016 @06:05PM "Smart" Electrical Socket Leaks Your Email Address, Can Launch DDoS Attacks
Thursday August 18, 2016 @03:46PM Millions Of Steam Game Keys Stolen After Hacker Breaches Gaming Site
Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:02PM Cisco Patches 'ExtraBacon' Zero-day Exploit Leaked By NSA Hackers
Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:57PM People Ignore Software Security Warnings Up To 90% of the Time, Says Study
Tuesday August 16, 2016 @06:35PM Malware That Fakes Bank Login Screens Found In Google Ads
Tuesday August 16, 2016 @04:50PM Snowden Speculates Leak of NSA Spying Tools Is Tied To Russian DNC Hack
Tuesday August 16, 2016 @04:15PM Windows UAC Bypass Permits Code Execution
Tuesday August 16, 2016 @02:04PM Anonymous targets engineering firms in Quebec
Monday August 15, 2016 @11:35PM China Launches World's First Quantum Communications Satellite
Monday August 15, 2016 @11:22PM FalseCONNECT Vulnerability Affects Software From Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, More
Monday August 15, 2016 @05:42PM DNC Creates 'Cybersecurity Board' Without Any Cybersecurity Experts
Monday August 15, 2016 @05:38PM 1.4 Billion Android Devices Affected by Linux TCP Flaw
Monday August 15, 2016 @04:47PM Tim Cook: Privacy Is Worth Protecting
Monday August 15, 2016 @04:38PM Linux Traffic Hijack Flaw Also Affects Most Android Phones, Tablets
Monday August 15, 2016 @03:42PM Serious Flaws In iMessage Crypto Allow For Message Decryption
Monday August 15, 2016 @02:32PM Hackers Claim To Be Selling NSA Cyberweapons In Online Auction
Monday August 15, 2016 @11:23AM EU Plans To Extend Some Telecom Rules To Web-Based Providers
Monday August 15, 2016 @09:41AM First Confirmed Prism Surveillance Target Was Democracy Activist
Sunday August 14, 2016 @11:31PM Ask Slashdot: Are There Secure Alternatives To Skype?
Sunday August 14, 2016 @10:44PM Internal 'Set Of Blunders' Crashed Australia's Census Site
Sunday August 14, 2016 @01:28PM Can We Avoid Government Surveillance By Leaving The Grid?
Sunday August 14, 2016 @12:25PM Under Fire, US Social Security Site Changes Security Policy Again
Sunday August 14, 2016 @11:56AM Should Cloud Vendors Decrypt Data For The Government?
Saturday August 13, 2016 @08:38PM Researchers Warn Linux Vendors About Cloud-Memory Hacking Trick
Saturday August 13, 2016 @05:57PM One In Five Vehicle Software Vulnerabilities Are 'Hair On Fire' Critical
Saturday August 13, 2016 @04:59PM America's NIST Seeks Public Comments on Cybersecurity and Cryptography
Saturday August 13, 2016 @02:53PM Disable WPAD Now or Have Your Accounts Compromised, Researchers Warn
Saturday August 13, 2016 @11:53AM Voting Machines Can Be Easily Compromised, Symantec Demonstrates
Friday August 12, 2016 @11:25PM New Cache Attack Can Monitor Keystrokes On Android Phones
Friday August 12, 2016 @08:04PM Hacker Publishes Cell Phone Numbers of House Democrats
Friday August 12, 2016 @07:47PM LinkedIn Suffers Huge Bot Attack That Steals Members' Personal Data
Friday August 12, 2016 @05:43PM DDoSCoin: New Crypto-Currency Rewards Users For Participating In DDoS Attacks
Friday August 12, 2016 @09:57AM New Air-Gap Jumper Covertly Transmits Data in Hard-Drive Sounds
Thursday August 11, 2016 @07:17PM Tor Promises Not To Build Backdoors Into Its Services
Thursday August 11, 2016 @04:12PM Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Unreasonable Companies?
Thursday August 11, 2016 @01:57PM A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock Almost Every Volkswagen Sold Since 1995
Thursday August 11, 2016 @12:23PM Hack of Democrats' Accounts Was Wider Than Believed, Officials Say
Thursday August 11, 2016 @12:19PM France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative
Wednesday August 10, 2016 @07:45PM Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash
Wednesday August 10, 2016 @06:52PM Samsung Pay Hack Lets Attackers Make Fraudulent Payments
Wednesday August 10, 2016 @06:37PM Microsoft Accidentally Provides Example of Dangers of Encryption 'Back Doors'
Wednesday August 10, 2016 @02:53PM Muslim dating site hacked, 98,8% accounts said to be false
Wednesday August 10, 2016 @02:43PM Linux Bug Leaves USA Today, Other Top Sites Vulnerable To Serious Hijacking Attacks
Wednesday August 10, 2016 @02:06PM Researchers Crack Microsoft Feature, Say Encryption Backdoors Similarly Crackable
Wednesday August 10, 2016 @12:03PM Zero-Day Hunters Will Pay Over Twice as Much as Apple's New Bug Bounty Programme
Wednesday August 10, 2016 @11:28AM Popular Sex Toy Caught Sending Intimate Data To Manufacturer
Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:05AM Dota 2 Forum Breach Leaks 2 Million User Accounts
Tuesday August 09, 2016 @07:10PM Australian Census Website Shut Down On Census Night After 4 DDoS Attacks
Tuesday August 09, 2016 @06:29PM Annoying 'Open PDF In Edge' Default Option Puts Windows 10 Users At Risk
Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:15PM Microsoft Disables RC4 In Internet Explorer 11 and Edge
Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:13PM Annoying "Open PDF in Edge" Default Option Puts Windows 10 Users at Risk
Tuesday August 09, 2016 @01:11PM China Suspected of Hacking Organizations Involved in South China Sea Dispute
Tuesday August 09, 2016 @12:07PM Researchers Crack Open Unusually Advanced Malware that Hid For 5 Years
Monday August 08, 2016 @07:26PM White House Releases Federal Source Code Policy To Help Government Agencies Go Open Source
Monday August 08, 2016 @06:32PM Hacker Uses Fake Boarding Pass App To Get Into Fancy Airline Lounges
Monday August 08, 2016 @06:08PM Google: Unwanted Software Is Worse Than Malware
Monday August 08, 2016 @04:19PM Iran Bans Pokemon Go Over 'Security Concerns'
Monday August 08, 2016 @02:48PM Data Breach At Oracle's MICROS Point-of-Sale Division
Monday August 08, 2016 @01:24PM 75 Percent of Bluetooth Smart Locks Can Be Hacked
Monday August 08, 2016 @01:14PM One Billion Monitors Vulnerable to Hijacking and Spying
Monday August 08, 2016 @10:49AM Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware For Smart Thermostats
Sunday August 07, 2016 @09:08PM 900M Android Devices Vulnerable To New 'Quadrooter' Security Flaw
Sunday August 07, 2016 @08:02PM Linux on Windows Exposes a New Attack Surface
Sunday August 07, 2016 @07:23PM Aggressive Hackers Are Targeting Rio's Olympics
Sunday August 07, 2016 @06:11PM FBI Forced To Release 18 Hours of Spy Plane Footage
Sunday August 07, 2016 @05:44PM DOJ Official Tells 100 Federal Judges To Use Tor
Sunday August 07, 2016 @04:41PM Microsoft Researchers Reveal Remote Encryption-Bypassing 'Evil Butler' Exploit
Sunday August 07, 2016 @02:14PM 32 States Offer Online Voting, But Experts Warn It Isn't Secure
Saturday August 06, 2016 @09:40PM GhostMail Closes in September, Leaves Users Searching For Secure Email Alternatives
Saturday August 06, 2016 @06:45PM 'Mayhem' Wins $2M In DARPA's AI Hacking Contest, Draws EFF Scrutiny
Saturday August 06, 2016 @05:30PM Conservative Site Argues Profiting from Snowden 'Treason' May Violate Law
Saturday August 06, 2016 @03:40PM Assange Says Wikileaks is 'Working On' Hacking Donald Trump's Tax Return
Saturday August 06, 2016 @12:34PM Nigerian Scammers Infect Themselves With Own Malware, Reveal New Fraud Scheme
Saturday August 06, 2016 @12:02PM Remote Evil Butler Attack Threatens Windows Computers
Saturday August 06, 2016 @12:34AM BBC To Deploy Detection Vans To Snoop On Internet Users
Saturday August 06, 2016 @12:17AM Is The US Social Security Site Still Vulnerable To Identity Theft?
Friday August 05, 2016 @11:32PM The Dark Side of Certificate Transparency
Friday August 05, 2016 @07:45PM Car Thieves Arrested After Using Laptop and Malware To Steal More Than 30 Jeeps
Friday August 05, 2016 @05:54PM 1,000+ US Spies Are Protecting Rio Olympics, Says Report
Friday August 05, 2016 @04:17PM DJI Issues Software Update That Implements No-Fly Zones For Rio Olympics
Friday August 05, 2016 @02:47PM Hackers Bring Ethics To Las Vegas
Friday August 05, 2016 @01:21PM This Company Has Built a Profile On Every American Adult
Friday August 05, 2016 @10:10AM Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All
Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:57PM Malware Linked To Government of Kazakhstan Targets Journalists, Political Activists and Lawyers, Says Report
Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:25PM Pokemon Go DDoS Attacks Postponed As PoodleCorp Botnet Suffers Security Breach
Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:01PM Galaxy Note 7 Iris Scanner Explained
Thursday August 04, 2016 @05:15PM Banner Health Alerts 3.7 Million Potential Victims of Hack
Thursday August 04, 2016 @03:57PM Ask Slashdot: Should The DHS Designate Elections As Critical Infrastructure?
Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:41AM New Attack Steals SSNs, E-mail Addresses, and More From HTTPS Pages
Wednesday August 03, 2016 @07:12PM Canada Wants To Keep Federal Data Within National Borders
Wednesday August 03, 2016 @12:35PM Project Hosting Service Fosshub Compromised, Embedding Malware Inside Hosted Files
Wednesday August 03, 2016 @11:21AM Your Battery Status Is Being Used To Track You Online
Wednesday August 03, 2016 @09:23AM Frequent Password Changes Are the Enemy Of Security, FTC Technologist Says
Wednesday August 03, 2016 @07:42AM The Dark Side Of Certificate Transparency
Tuesday August 02, 2016 @07:38PM Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Says It Was Hacked, Roughly $60M Stolen
Tuesday August 02, 2016 @06:22PM Top DNC Staffers Leave Following WikiLeaks Email Scandal
Tuesday August 02, 2016 @05:34PM Judge Rules FBI Violated Fourth Amendment By Recording 200+ Hours of Audio At A Courthouse
Tuesday August 02, 2016 @05:24PM Hackers Break Into Telegram, Revealing 15 Million Users' Phone Numbers
Tuesday August 02, 2016 @12:31PM Microsoft Live Account Credentials Leaking From Windows 8 And Above
Tuesday August 02, 2016 @11:27AM Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Launched, Features Curved Display, Iris Scanner
Monday August 01, 2016 @09:10PM Hacker Selling Data For 200 Million Yahoo Users On The Dark Web
Monday August 01, 2016 @07:10PM Hacker Selling Data for 200 Million Yahoo Users on the Dark Web
Monday August 01, 2016 @06:47PM QRLJacking Attack Can Bypass Any QR Login System
Monday August 01, 2016 @06:14PM Elizabeth Holmes Finally Releases Theranos Data, Including A 'miniLab'
Monday August 01, 2016 @03:22PM Washington State Sues Comcast For $100M Over 'Pattern of Deceptive Practices'