Equifax accidentally encouraged people to use the wrong website to check if their personal information was included in a massive security breach on numerous occasions.
The U.S. Justice Department has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into the sale of Equifax stock by high-ranking executives just days before the company revealed they had been the subject of a massive data breach.
An online chatbot which was originally created to help users overturn parking tickets could be used by those affected by the Equifax data breach to help sue the company for up to $25,000.
Equifax has removed a clause from the Terms of Use section of the website set up to help victims of the company’s data breach that previously barred victims from suing Equifax if they used the company’s services.
PARIS (AP) — A new, highly virulent strain of malicious software that is crippling computers globally appears to have been sown in Ukraine, where it badly hobbled much of the government and private sector on the eve of a holiday celebrating a post-Soviet constitution.
PARIS (AP) — A new and highly virulent outbreak of malicious data-scrambling software appears to be causing mass disruption across Europe, hitting Ukraine especially hard.
LONDON (AP) — British officials are investigating a cyberattack on the country’s Parliament after discovering “unauthorized attempts to access parliamentary user accounts.”
A cybersecurity firm has claimed that another, bigger cyber attack is on the way, adding that the next incident could “dwarf” the last.
The attack also reportedly shut down an industry-wide database known as inEntertainment, slowing the work of agencies across Hollywood.
A cyber attack on the Sundance Film Festival that forced the closure of the festival’s box office on Saturday is now being reviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a report.
Readers were unable to access the pioneering powerhouse news website Drudge Report for an hour and a half on Thursday, due to what site founder Matt Drudge says was a denial-of-service attack.
Al-Qaeda has explored the critical infrastructure in the U.S., such as electric power, telephone communications, and water supplies in search of vulnerabilities to carry out “electronic jihad,” or cyberterrorism, warns the the House Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing.
Moscow (AFP) – A massive cyberattack has hit at least five of Russia’s largest banks, Moscow-based internet security giant Kaspersky said Thursday.
A massive hacker attack on Vietnam’s airports two weeks ago, which forced many airlines to temporarily revert to manual check-ins, has been blamed on a hacker group linked to the Chinese government.
Michael Isikoff at Yahoo writes that Hillary Clinton’s campaign declined a request from the FBI to provide information on potential cyberattacks.
South Korea says North Korea has been trying to hack into their smartphones and has also conducted cyberattacks against the South Korean railway transit system.
The IRS had been warned of vulnerabilities in their computer system long before the taxing agency admitted this week that it had been hacked and may have lost the data of up to 100,000 American taxpayers.
The UK Mirror reports a hacking crossfire between Anonymous Protection—a branch of famed hacker collective Anonymous—and the Lizard Squad, which has lately been renting itself out as a band of cyber-attack mercenaries, while threatening to release nude photos of singer Taylor Swift in its spare time.
The United States placed new sanctions on North Korea Friday in retaliation for what it claims is the country’s involvement in the November 24 cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment.
FBI agents were briefed Monday by one of the world’s leading cyber intelligence firms, who claim that the evidence being gathered in connection with the November 24 cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment points to a former employee of the studio, rather than North Korea, as the perpetrator of the hack.
Back in 2005, two business-school professors, Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins, published a thoughtful book, Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them. A decade later, we can look ahead to the Predictable Surprises of 2015—and beyond.
The London Telegraph reported yesterday on the classified findings of a new security assessment by the British government simulating a storm-induced power blackout of two weeks’ duration in southwestern England. As the paper put it, the assessment concluded that: “Britain is
Evidence released by the Obama administration pointing to North Korea as the culprit behind the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment is hardly conclusive, a number of private security researchers told The New York Times.
This article was originally written by Marc Rogers and posted at Daily Beast: So, “The Interview” is to be released after all. The news that the satirical movie—which revolves around a plot to murder Kim Jong-Un—will have a Christmas Day
In the wake of North Korea’s recent cyber attack against Sony, Breitbart News spoke with Paul Rosenzweig, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security, about the cyber threats we face as a nation
The Islamic State may have expanded its operations into cyberattacks, according to Citizen Lab, an Internet watchdog group. Citizen Lab reported that the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, or ISIL) may be behind a botched malware attack intended to hack into
Obama’s national security team is weighing a range of options in response to the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said. Earnest told reporters on Dec. 18 that the White House is considering a “proportional
