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Kaspersky Lab extends its Bug Bounty Program

The program encourages qualified individuals and organizations to submit reports on vulnerabilities and bugs found in its products.

20 Apr 2017 4:01 PM

Cybersecurity breaches have cost shareholders billions since 2013: Study

Severe cyber security breaches affected since 2013 globally has found.

13 Apr 2017 1:02 PM

Dallas will rely on local media, emergency 911 phone calls, and a federal radio alert system.

Computer hack sets off 156 emergency sirens across Dallas

The breach in the city of 1.6 million people was believed to have originated in the area.

10 Apr 2017 8:21 AM

The hacked data was from people who had sought work with McDonald's Canada since March 2014, and the company said it has launched an investigation into the hack (Photo: AFP)

Job seekers' data stolen in hack of McDonald's Canada

The data was from people who had sought work with the company since March 2014

01 Apr 2017 12:23 PM

Germany remains in danger in the cyber arena, says official

Germany last year warded off two cyberattacks by APT28, a top official said.

26 Mar 2017 9:27 AM

Higher spending on cyber security is one of the top priorities for the ministry over the next five years.

Attacks on US-linked Polish sites back higher cyber spending - minister

He declined to specify who was behind the attacks, but said they included pro-Russian content

16 Mar 2017 9:20 PM

WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messaging services in the world with more than a billion users. (Representational image)

WhatsApp, Telegram riddled with security vulnerabilities

A computer security firm today revealed a flaw that could let hackers break into WhatsApp or Telegram messaging accounts.

16 Mar 2017 9:36 AM

The kind and the scale of these cyber weapons was such that even the CIA lost control of majority of its hacking arsenal which includes state of the art malware, viruses, Trojans and weaponised zero day exploits which can be worth millions of dollars each in dark web.

Be careful: Your smart devices can be outsmarted!

How CIA can spy you from your SmartTV and other smart gadgets and bypass smartphone encryption apps.

09 Mar 2017 3:13 PM

Mobile malware, the top threat of 2016

Mobile advertising trojans exploiting super-user rights became top mobile malware threat in 2016.

05 Mar 2017 8:49 AM

Yahoo announced in September that hackers in 2014 stole personal data from more than 500 million of its user accounts.

Yahoo notifies users of sophisticated breach methods

The company was notifying all potentially affected users and that it had ‘invalidated’ the forged cookies, said Yahoo.

16 Feb 2017 8:00 AM

They are among nine people who have faced charges following an investigation connected to a breach JPMorgan disclosed in 2014 that exposed more than 83 million accounts.

US trial set over bitcoin exchange linked to JPMorgan hack probe

Prosecutors contend Lebedev schemed to deceive financial institutions into processing transactions

13 Feb 2017 9:47 PM

The Candid Board was recently hacked into and around 180k usernames, passwords and other details such as photos and videos were grabbed from the website by some hackers.

'Upskirt' porn website breach exposes 180,000 accounts

Almost 178,201 unique email addresses, usernames, passwords, DOB, IP addresses were included in the breach.

26 Jan 2017 1:00 PM

In August of that year, hackers got hold of more than a billion Yahoo accounts, stealing the poorly encrypted passwords and other information in the biggest data breach on record.

Insights: Yahoo security problems a story of too little, too late

Yahoo only recently uncovered the hack and disclosed it last week.

19 Dec 2016 11:24 AM

Yahoo disclosed that as part of its investigation into the prior breach, it had received data files from law enforcement "that a third party claimed was Yahoo user data."

Yahoo reveals new hack, this time a billion-plus users

Yahoo believes an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with more than one billion user accounts.

15 Dec 2016 7:43 AM

The report by LeakBase says that it still isn’t clear on how the database was obtained.

Porn website hacked, 380,000 accounts spilled online, xHamster claims fhack

xHamster is a free porn website and does not need details of credit or debit cards.

03 Dec 2016 1:36 PM

Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

Rahul's Twitter compromised through email breach

The Delhi police has initiated a probe into the hacking and has written to the management of Twitter seeking necessary details.

01 Dec 2016 2:40 PM

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