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Terracotta VPN network helps hackers remain anonymous
Privacy
Hacker sends woman pictures of herself from her own webcam
Hackers exploit OS X zero-day vulnerability
Cybercrime
Indiana's AG launches investigation into major data breach
Hackers are using a commercially available VPN network in China to obscure the origin source of their activities.
Karl Thomas • 05 Aug 2015 • 1 min. read
Hacker sends woman images of herself and her boyfriend, which were captured through their own webcam.
Karl Thomas • 04 Aug 2015 • 2 min. read
Hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the latest version of Apple’s OS X.
Karl Thomas • 04 Aug 2015 • 1 min. read
Indiana's Attorney General has launched an investigation into a data breach at Medical Informatics Engineering, which has affected up to 4 million people.
Karl Thomas • 03 Aug 2015 • 2 min. read
Facebook Security Checkup feature now available
Facebook has made a new feature called Security Checkup generally available after testing on an invite-only group, according to SoftPedia.
Karl Thomas • 31 Jul 2015 • 1 min. read
United Airlines customer flight records breached
United Airlines customer flight records have been lost in a data breach it has been reported.
Karl Thomas • 30 Jul 2015 • 1 min. read
Cybersecurity is increasingly a 'board-level' issue, finds report
The majority of managers believe that IT risk management data genuinely influences board decisions, according to Gartner.
Karl Thomas • 29 Jul 2015 • 1 min. read
‘Keystroke Biometrics’ exploit defeats Tor privacy
Security researchers have created a practical privacy attack out of a well-known theory around user behaviour. The attack appears to defeat privacy measures such as Tor.
New report explains gulf between security experts and non-experts
Security experts and non security experts take very different attitudes to staying safe online, according to new research.
Karl Thomas • 28 Jul 2015 • 2 min. read
