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Australian and US authorities collaborated to identify and charge the alleged cybercriminals, who face many years in prison.
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The cybersecurity incident has disrupted Boston Scientific’s ability to process and ship customer orders.
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The pro-Russian hacker group Server Killers claimed responsibility for the attack.
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A ReliaQuest employee fell victim to a phishing attack and the hackers gained access to a dashboard.
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On Thursday, Joshua Schichtel was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and ordered to three years of supervised release. The sentence comes after he...
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Analyzing data collected and categorized by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, researchers at Rapid7 crunched the numbers and determined that over the last three years,...
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The US Secret Service is investigating claims that someone has stolen the Mitt Romney’s tax returns, with plans to release them of their demands...
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A spokesperson for Sony has confirmed that the email addresses and names released earlier this week were taken from a server maintained by a...
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The direct costs related to global consumer cybercrime has dropped to $110 billion, according to the latest cybercrime survey. The same report last year...
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A cyber-attack on Bitfloor, a Bitcoin exchange, yielded access to an unencrypted backup of wallet keys that were used to steal roughly $250,000, according...
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The main website of news network Al-Jazeera was hacked Tuesday afternoon by Syrian government loyalists in retaliation for the network's recent news coverage of...
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STOCKHOLM - Several Swedish official websites were knocked offline Monday, although no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks. "I can confirm that the...
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Late last week, SecurityWeek reported on a new Trojan Key Logger named “Admin.HLP” that captures sensitive user information and attempts to export it to...
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SAN FRANCISCO - (AFP) - Facebook ramped up efforts Friday to get rid of "Likes" that aren't from people genuinely interested in giving a...
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FORT MEADE, Maryland - (AFP) - US military lawyers said Wednesday that Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of passing a trove of secret documents...
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The zero-day in Java that SecurityWeek reported on Monday has gotten worse, as it can be targeted from within the Blackhole Exploit Kit and...
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Raynaldo Rivera, a 20 year-old from Tempe, Arizona, surrendered to authorities in Phoenix on Tuesday. Rivera stands accused of being a member of LulzSec...
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FORT MEADE, Maryland - (AFP) - Lawyers for the US soldier charged with passing a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks accused the military...
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Hacking group "Team GhostShell" has claimed credit for a massive leak of data, alleged to top more than a million records. However, the breach,...
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Hackers say they have hit the website for electronics manufacturer AVX as part of an an attack campaign dubbed #OperationGreenRights.
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ROME - (AFP) - Italy's police said Saturday they have seized so far this year 52 million counterfeit items, including train tickets, smartphones, condoms...
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On Thursday, law enforcement officials with the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) in the Philippines arrested...
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On Tuesday, prosecutors asked a federal judge to delay sentencing for Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known to some as Sabu, for his role as...
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