Image: CDC Most of the time, fighting malware is a losing game. Malware authors create their code, distribute payloads to victims via various methods, and by the time security firms catch up, attacker

North Korean Hacking Group Attacks Israeli Defense Industry Israel says the attack was thwarted, but a cybersecurity firm says it was successful. Some officials fear that classified data stolen by Nor

The unsolicited call came from France. Or at least that's what my phone said. When I picked up, a man asked if I worked with the National Crime Agency, the UK's version of the FBI. When I explained, n

Illustration by Alex Castro Early on July 31st, the FBI, IRS, US Secret Service, and Florida law enforcement placed 17-year-old Graham Clark of Tampa, Florida, under arrest. He’s accused of being the

We all play a role in securing the world’s code. No one company can solve things alone, including GitHub, which is why it is critical to combine the energies of teams, companies, and individuals that

Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside Several people involved in the events that took down Twitter this week spoke with The Times, giving the first account of what happened as a

World Officials say adversaries tried to steal intellectual property from governments, universities, private companies and others in several countries By Jenny Strasburg in London and Dustin Volz in W

Researchers reported on Monday that hackers are now exploiting Google's Analytics service to stealthily pilfer credit card information from infected e-commerce sites. According to several independent

When a judge ruled last month that Capital One must provide outsiders with a third-party incident response report detailing the circumstances around the bank’s massive data breach, the cybersecurity w

Late last year, David Haynes, a security engineer at the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare , found himself gazing at a strange image. “It was pure gibberish,” he says. “A whole bunch of gray

At around 7 am on a quiet Wednesday in August 2017, Marcus Hutchins walked out the front door of the Airbnb mansion in Las Vegas where he had been partying for the past week and a half. A gangly, 6'4"

SAN FRANCISCO – Cybercriminals are pushing boundaries in looking for new ways to cash in on the healthcare space – whether it is persuading desperate patients to download health information apps that

Members of the US government held a conference in Washington this week on the topic of Chinese theft of intellectual property from US technology firms and the US academic sector. Officials said the pu

Image: Bundo Kim techrepublic cheat sheet How to become a developer: Salaries, skills, and the best languages to learn At the WWDC conference last year, Apple announced plans to deprecate macOS " kern

By now there have been a few articles about security researchers that have crossed the million dollar threshold for rewards obtained in ‘bug bounties’ over the years. Before you give up your day-job,

Cybersecurity stress is an industrywide epidemic among security professionals. Burnout is a hard conversation, but it’s necessary for CISOs to face workplace stress before it compromises productivity,

This story was reported in partnership with health news site The Mighty. Every day, millions of new medical images containing the personal health information of patients are spilling out onto the inte

‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020 While American election defenses have improved since 2016, many of the vulnerabilities exploited four years ago remain. Credit.

Research by: Vitali Kremez , Joshua Platt and Jason Reaves The Wind of Time Shakes the Underground | High-Tech Cybercrime & APT | Most Sophisticated & Resourceful Crimeware Group When we talk about cy

I was just thinking about the biggest breaches we’ve had in history, from companies like Adobe, LinkedIn, Equifax, Marriott, Target, etc., and wondering how badly they’ve been affected long-term. Stoc

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The aircraft maker failed to perform minimum due diligence in securing its networks, then tried to cover it up, security researcher Chris Kubecka tells Aviation Cyber Security conference attendees. Cr

Published 31 October 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, David Rimmer Image caption, David Rimmer says firms must consider the impact of data breaches on employees By Sooraj Shah Technology of

HD Moore, famed developer of the wildly popular Metasploit penetration testing tool, is about to go commercial with a new project he originally envisioned would give him a nice break from security. Mo

One of the most senior officials tasked with protecting U.S. critical infrastructure says that the lack of security professionals in the U.S. is one of the leading threats to national cybersecurity. S

I’ve seen it claim more than enough victims throughout my career. Some of the top performers in the industry have been consumed by it, yet few speak about it. Yes, there is a silent epidemic within th

While much of the attention around California’s recently passed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) has focused on the future for Uber and Lyft drivers, bug bounty contractors working in California could also argue

Nearly 80% of global organizations now rank cyber-risk as a top-five business concern, but just 11% are highly confident they can assess, prevent and respond effectively to attacks, according to new r

A first-of-its-kind cyberattack on the U.S. grid created blind spots at a grid control center and several small power generation sites in the western United States, according to a document posted yest

Ransomware Attacks Are Testing Resolve of Cities Across America Computers were shut down at the E.M. Gilliam Memorial Library following a ransomware attack in Wilmer, Tex. Credit... Cooper Neill for T

In an unnerving twist, when a critical zero-day vulnerability was reported in a Unix administration tool, called Webmin, it was revealed the flaw was no accident. According to researchers, the vulnera

Wired UK/Shuttershock A rash of supply chain attacks hitting open source software over the past year shows few signs of abating, following the discovery this week of two separate backdoors slipped int

WSJ News Exclusive Markets Cybersecurity employees reported what they saw as staffing issues and other problems to bank’s internal auditors, human-resources department and other senior executives Upda