May 2, 2016 US military proposes secure, self-destructing messaging app The U.S. military needs new messaging technology that’s ultra-secure and self-destructs. Sound familiar?
May 2, 2016 Sources: Roughly 4 weeks passed before gov't revealed hacking The White House waited roughly four weeks before telling the public that hackers had stolen the personal information of millions of people associated with the federal government, two people directly involved with the investigation tell The Associated Press.
May 2, 2016 Obama's cybersecurity proposals part of decade-old programs President Obama said Tuesday that recent cyberthreats to Sony and the military's U.S. Central Command are reminders of the serious threats facing the nation. But an Associated Press review shows that some of his plans are retreads from years past.
April 27, 2016 Dating site that rejects 'ugly' people gets hacked Go ahead, enjoy the schadenfreude: A dating website that excludes unattractive people has been hacked, and the private information of more than a million of its attractive users is now for sale on the dark web.
April 27, 2016 Feds to keep iPhone-hacking method under wraps The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn’t plan to tell Apple Inc. how it cracked a San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist’s phone, said people familiar with the matter, leaving the company in the dark on a security vulnerability on some iPhone models.
April 26, 2016 Spotify denies that some user accounts have been hacked Spotify has denied a claim that the digital music service has been hacked.
April 25, 2016 Pro-ISIS hackers release names, personal info of targeted State Dept. employees A team of hackers supporting the Islamic State terror group announced Sunday it had stolen the names, phone numbers and other personal information of State Department employees, releasing some screenshots in a message vowing to "crush" the United States.
April 25, 2016 Hackers attack KKK and briefly bring down main website Hackers associated with Ghost Squad and the Anonymous collective succeeded in launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the official Ku Klux Klan website, the latest move from within the hacking community to bring down the Klan's glorification of "blunt racism."
April 15, 2016 Email fraudsters scam US company out of nearly $100 million U.S. officials said Thursday that an unidentified company was defrauded out of nearly $100 million by individuals who used a fake email to pose as one of its vendors.
April 14, 2016 Journalist sentenced for helping Anonymous hack into LA Times website A well-known social media journalist was sentenced to two years in federal prison Wednesday after he was convicted of conspiring with the hacking group Anonymous to break into the Los Angeles Times' website and alter a story.
