Forensics Firm Confirm Ransomware Payment In 2017 we saw a huge rise in the number of ransomware attacks. If you’re not aware of that these are, basically it’s ...
July 6, 2019 at 1:08 pm by Mike Sanders
Hacker Given 27 Months In Prison Now, I don’t profess to be an expert on the prison system, but I imagine that as you enter your cell and your big burly cellmate asks ...
July 4, 2019 at 10:37 am by Mike Sanders
Hackers Connected Raspberry Pi to JPL Networks The Raspberry Pi is a versatile little tool that is quite the darling of the DIY community. Mostly due to its low-cost and ...
June 24, 2019 at 5:11 pm by Ron Perillo
Bitcoin Exchange Reports $41m Hack Heist While the cryptocurrency craze has died down quite significantly from its 2017 boom, there are still many people engaged in both the ...
May 8, 2019 at 12:49 pm by Mike Sanders
Dell Security Exploit Although their popularity may have waned in recent years, the chances are that everyone reading this has either owned or encountered a Dell laptop or PC ...
May 4, 2019 at 9:04 am by Mike Sanders
Facing US Extradition on Federal Conspiracy Charges WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has now been arrested at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. He is guilty of failing to ...
April 11, 2019 at 4:55 pm by Ron Perillo
Pwn2Own This year’s Pwn2Own competition is shortly set to begin in Vancouver. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, it is essentially one of the biggest annual ...
January 15, 2019 at 10:12 am by Mike Sanders
Hacker For Hire Gets Prison Sentence One of the more pervasive parts of the dark web is those who offer their hacking services for hire. The concept is quite simple. You pay ...
January 12, 2019 at 11:21 am by Mike Sanders
Ethereum Classic Blockchain Hit By $400,000 Attack With the crash of the price of Bitcoin in early 2018, cryptocurrency mining isn’t as popular as it once was. That ...
January 8, 2019 at 4:51 pm by Mike Sanders
Hackers Charged With Attacks On US Companies There is little doubt that many countries apply what is known as ‘state-backed’ hacking groups. For those of you ...
December 21, 2018 at 9:04 am by Mike Sanders
Twitter Confirms ‘Unusual Traffic’ May Be Hacking Any major organisation such as Twitter is clearly going to be a very tempting target for people who want to try ...
December 18, 2018 at 3:17 pm by Mike Sanders
Quora Reports 100m Accounts Compromised Quora is a rather popular website. It pretty much stole the concept that came to initial popularity with Yahoo Answers. In a nutshell, ...
December 4, 2018 at 1:53 pm by Mike Sanders
Humble Book Bundle I’m sure that many PC owners (well, gamers specifically) will be aware of the Humble Bundle. For those of you who are not, it is a website that ...
November 27, 2018 at 1:30 pm by Mike Sanders
Adult Gaming Website Reportedly Hacked Before we get into the details of this story, I’m going to need to ask you to refrain from pulling any faces or laughing. Yes, we ...
November 22, 2018 at 1:26 pm by Mike Sanders
Bloomberg Doubles Down on Accusing China Bloomberg reported last week of the Chinese spying on US companies through a miniscule chip installed on Supermicro server ...
October 10, 2018 at 3:44 pm by Ron Perillo
