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Cybersecurity is the greatest threat the world has faced since the atom bomb, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in an interview with Australian TV news show Lateline. The perceived threat of a cyberattack, he said, is causing as much fear and panic as the Cold War hysteria during his childhood. "We used to fear the atomic bomb when I was young, and you used to come home from school and sirens would go off for a...

The Reuters Agency reported that an unidentified American company was the victim of a clamorous email fraud, scammers have stolen from the firm nearly $100 million. According to the US authorities, fraudsters used a fake email address in order to pose as one of its legitimate business partners. Reuters reported the US authorities have filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit in federal court in New York seeking to recover nearly $25 million derived from the fraud...

Almost a year after carrying out his attacks, the hacker behind the Hacking Team data breach has published a step-by-step explainer on how he breached the company's servers and stole all their data. Known as Phineas Fisher (past moniker FinFisher), the hacker posted a PasteBin over the weekend, in which he reveals how the attack unfolded, the tools he used, and provided a tutorial for h@ckZ0r wannabees who want to enter the world of top-level...

The study by AXELOS found that less than a third of firms were employing modern techniques, such as gamification and animation, into their cyber security training. In addition, fewer than half (46 per cent) of executives in charge of cyber security training at organisations with more than 500 employees were providing learning opportunities beyond staff induction sessions and an annual refresher course.   Original Source: City A.M. View the full story here

Anonymous, a global hacktivist group, attacked websites associated with Halifax’s Dalhousie University in retaliation for claimed inaction by the school and local police over an alleged frat-house rape. As the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were launched last week and over the weekend, members of a Halifax-based cell of Anonymous released a video statement again naming the alleged attacker and suggesting his family’s influence within Halifax may be the reason charges have not been laid. “Dalhousie...

On Friday, Apple formally responded to the government’s demand that the company help unlock a seized iPhone in New York, which pre-dates the debacle that played out earlier this year in San Bernardino. As Ars reported last month, federal prosecutors have asked a more senior judge, known as a district judge, to countermand a magistrate judge who earlier ruled in Apple’s favor, which is why Apple had to file now. In that ruling, US Magistrate...

A particularly vindictive individual or group of hackers has released a new crypto-ransomware named Jigsaw, after the killer in the Saw horror films. It not only encrypts the files on your computer, but also sets a timer and deletes more files every hour that the user delays paying the ransom. The malware targets over 120 file extension types. Once activated, a screen with Billy the puppet (Jigsaw's mouthpiece in the Saw films) tells the victim...

Given how sex sells, one might have thought the price for stolen databases containing emails and passwords of 3.8 million porn users, which a hacker claims to have taken from the owner of the Naughty America porno production house, would have fetched a high price. But no, on the so-called “dark web”, it’s for sale at just 0.7048 Bitcoin, worth approximately $300. Meanwhile, more information has been passing around the dark corners of the net, with a separate leak...

U.S. federal, state and local government agencies rank in last place in cyber security when compared against 17 major private industries, including transportation, retail and healthcare, according to a new report released Thursday. The analysis, from venture-backed security risk benchmarking startup SecurityScorecard, measured the relative security health of government and industries across 10 categories, including vulnerability to malware infections, exposure rates of passwords and susceptibility to social engineering, such as an employee using corporate account...

Microsoft Corp has sued the U.S. government for the right to tell its customers when a federal agency is looking at their emails, the latest in a series of clashes over privacy between the technology industry and Washington. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in the Western District of Washington, argues that the government is violating the U.S. Constitution by preventing Microsoft from notifying thousands of customers about government requests for their emails...